when we kill animals to cook & eat them, why do we kill them? why don't we just wait 'till they die themselves

Question

wow, these are so not the responses i was looking for.
i'm not saying to cook live animals, i was just saying to wait for them to die first. a lot of people said that this would take too long but animals die EVERY DAY. thousands of them do.
thousands of chickens die of old age, or natural causes, or plain old heart attacks.

Answer 1

a) the cost to raise an animal to die to old age would be prohibitive, the meat would be tough and nutritionally degraded

b) Would you really want to eat an animal which died due to a disease or uncontrolled injury? Meat becomes contaminated and inedible when the digestive tract is compromised.

Why not ask, "Why do people feel entitled to eat animals and not do their own dirty work, i.e. kill them themselves, but have issues with hunters?

Answer 2

First of all had you realised that you have asked this question to a bunch of Vegetarians and vegans ? So none of us kill animals anyway.
BUT
In answer to your question..

Where would you draw the line if you did? You wouldn't eat people if they'd died of natural causes would you? It would be an H and S risk too. How would you know how long the corpses had been lying around for (you would be eating the real ' funky chicken' then!!) . People could catch all sorts of nasty diseases from these carcasses . We could only imagine in our worst nightmares what the meat processing plants would do in that case to make the meat appear 'fresh'.*

Answer 3

That would take a long time not to sure that would be healthy some poor old sick animals. But I see nothing wrong with using the hides like leather when they die. But, if we didn't eat them there wouldn't be that many animals around. Because when we got cars, there wasn't a need as much for horses. They said the economy will go to pieces because everyone was involved in raising horses or shoeing horses or carriages or something to do in the industry. But they went to building cars, serviceing cars, selling cars. So our jobs just change. If we didn't eat meat, pork producers would grow corn or beans.

Answer 4

the meat will get tough and stringy as the animal gets old,
and once the animal reaches its peak adult weight it will no longer pay for the farmer to continue to feed it.
they slaughter calves for the better taste of veal...
i try to consider that these animals would never have been born in the first place if not for the humans raising them.
look up how many horses are alive today as compared to in the day of cowboys, etc.
because of cars, we no longer raise horses like we used to.
one more thing , i think that mutton is meat from a sheep that died of natural causes (i might be wrong)
i guess that's because a sheep continues producing profitable wool.
but they eat lamb because the taste is better.
this is a tough subject!

Answer 5

The ones that die of natural causes may be diseased. It would be better to kill a live healthy animal than eat a diseased dead one.

Answer 6

people say the meat gets tougher as the animal ages,and they don't want that.Sure,alot of animals die everyday,but go to the supermarket and look at the meat section,look at the piles and piles and piles of meat stacked there.I always wonder how many animals had to die to make that supply.And that's only my supermarket,there are thousands of supermarkets in the U.S. that haves piles of meat like this.Alot of animals die naturally,but not to fill that supply.1 million animals die from factory farming each hour in the U.S. ,thats where those supermarkets get their supply.10 billion animals are farmed and slaughtered each year in the U.S. alone,that's geater than the population of the world.the average american maneats 188% more protein than the recommended daily intake and women 144% ore than recommended amount.

Answer 7

well one thing is that it will take a long time.
but then there will be bugs in them. another answer is that
we wouldn't exactly know when their dead.and I'm sure nobody
would want to wait days and days just for an animal to die.

Answer 8

Because animals who die of old age as a rule aren't healthy, and thus aren't that healthy for us either. Also being old and wrinkly they have less meat, lower quality meat and less tasty meat.

Eating healthy animals is better on all counts.

Answer 9

It would be uneconomic to do so. Also, if an animal dies naturally rather than being butchered, the reason for its demise may make its meat unsafe to eat.

Answer 10

I feel in man's past animals were both frightning and pestulant. And they are today. Man tried to subdue and elimanate his foe (i.e. the knight slaying the dragon). Somehow he got confused.

Some animal like the same food(vegetation) man does. In pursuing this food, some men became confused with the creature and felt it was in fact the food.

A couple of theories.