If you were a vegan straned on an island with no vegetation, but lots of animals, would you eat them?

Question

If you were a vegan stranded on an island with no vegetation, but lots of animals, would you eat them or would you starve?

Michael H, you are a moron.

PRINCESS JUST SAID IT!!! SHE ADMITTED THAT IT IS HUMAN NATURE TO EAT MEAT!!!

Answer 1

I think they'd be doing some fishing in the ocean. Not only would they eat the meat they would have to hunt (fish) for it too. Or hope they have useful tools to dig up clams.

Answer 2

I wouldn't do it. I haven't eaten meat in such a long time that there is a chance that if I did I owuld get sick and die. :-

At the same time if I was on an "sialnd" we all know that there is vegetation in the water. You never said that we couldn't go in the water. I would live on seaweed which is way healthy and would keep me alive for a quite some time.

To make matters worse the animals would probably (1) eat the other animals or (2) die of starvation because there was no vegetation around.

Answer 3

Your question really makes no sense. If the animals were able to find food, there would obviously be something there that we were able to eat besides them- whatever plant they are eating... Besides, what would be the point? Even if I did eat the animals, they will eventually run out, right, because they can't reproduce if I'm eating them... Then what? We are all still dead? What have I gained by eating them? I really don't have to worry about this though... We don't have a lot of vegetation-less islands to get stranded on in Missouri...

Answer 4

No... Princess admitted that *survival* is human nature.

Since this is purely hypothetical question, I'll put aside the fact that it will never happen. Yes, if it was truly a matter of eat or die, I would not allow myself or my loved ones to perish. I'm vegetarian because it's NOT a matter of eat animals or die and I have the choice every day to nourish my body without resorting to the rotting flesh of dead animals.

Incidentally, I sincerely hope I wouldn't be trapped on this island for long because a diet consisting solely of animal flesh cannot possibly sustain the human body for long. Ever hear of things like scurvy? It's 100% possible to be healthy with NO meat, but it's not possible to be healthy with ONLY meat.

Answer 5

If you were a meat eater stranded in cyberspace, would you post every day in the vegetarian section to instigate bad feelings? What would you hope to gain from it? Do you also post in the Christian boards and say Jesus doesn't exist? What is your purpose in life, to be the best jerk possible by belittling peoples personal choices? To answer your question, I am veggie because I live in fat America and have the choice to be nice. That being said, on your mythical island, I would kill something and eat it, hoping there is some sort of fire so I wouldn't die of parasites. Man isn't a "true" carnivore like a dog or cat (bear, raccoon, skunk etc.) in that he doesn't usually relish warm bloody raw, carcasses. My dog will eat something that's rotten and stinking. Meat eaters eat hair, bones, and the intestines poop and all. Do you, oh manly man?

Answer 6

It seems like you're trying to get some strict little vegan to crack under the pressure and admit that they'd take a poor little piggy's life away for the benefit of their own, as if it brings you some pleasure.

A lot of vegans, including myself, have beliefs that go more like this: In the developed world, where our means of survival doesn't come down to killing animals, eating meat can be proven to be somewhat unnecessary. In fact our nations are doing more harm with the mass production of animals, particularly with factory farming(animal cruelty, environmental waste, etc.) In undeveloped nations, there are those who spend their short lives in poverty we couldn't imagine. I've seen pictures of people eating sh*t, just anything, in hopes of filling their stomachs. In this case, an animal is being killed and eaten as a resourceful form of survival, not as one of many mass produced somethings that are seen more as cash in some corporate big shot's pocket, rather than an actual living thing.

What I'm getting at, if I experienced utmost starvation with no other means. The veg thing might have be thrown out the window.

Answer 7

Sarcasticquotemark is right, the animals shouldn't be there if there isn't any type of vegetation.

Anyway, if I were in that situation, I'd say it'd have to depend on why I became vegan. If it's out of respect for the lives of animals, then I might not eat them. If it's just a lifestyle choice, then I'd eat them. If (other stuff), then (other stuff).

Answer 8

Vegans should avoid animal products as far as practicable. In a situation where the alternative to death is eating death-foods, avoiding animal products is unpracticable. Of course the reality is that carnivores, being top of the food chain, are far fewer in number than herbivores, and no (terrestial, at any rate) eco-system could exist without plant life.

Answer 9

When your survival instincts kick in, there's no telling. I'm sure I would end up hunting meat for food. I'm a vegetarian because the way meat is raised and slaughtered these days is sick and unnecessarily cruel- it's very far removed from natural survival tactics. That doesn't mean I consider myself above human nature, if ever there were an occasion like this where it was really tested.

Thank you Ruth and Mockingbird- of course that's what I meant. Human beings have eaten other human beings for survival, it doesn't mean we're all meant to be cannibals! When people are truly starving their whole brain chemistry changes and it's a whole different world to the one we live in!

Answer 10

If I'd exhausted every other avenue of getting food then I probably would - it's a survival thing. In the same way that I would personally kill any animal to feed my children if they were starving.

But you just seem to have a massive problem - maybe it's all the meat you eat.

Answer 11

How are the animals staying alive? Eating other animals? In a closed ecosystem that wouldn't work because something in the food chain has to eat vegetation, otherwise you would run out of animals.