Do we have to stop eating animals and stop using and wearing animal products to protect animals?

Answer 1

Of course!!

Answer 2

Humans did not claw their way to the top of the food chain to become vegetarians.
I personally could go without eatins lots of meat but it tastes great and it good for us.
If we decide to stop eating meat the I guess we let all the farm animals loose to run wild because we feel sad for them.
We already protect animals and humans are animals and the human animal is a meat eater so feed the human animal its meat.
I just hit a Bambi the other night...there are way too many Bambis and too few Bambi hunters. You go all over the place and see one dead deer after another because "we must protect them" so they are being hit by the thousands each year. Eating millions of dollars if crops and even killing the human animals.

Answer 3

In my opinion, people are not going to stop eating animals that are raised to be eaten, or stop using the hide of those animals.
I do feel the wild animals should stop being hunted, some of them are becoming extinct and should be protected. Although I understand that hunting is important to keep some of the wild population down.

Answer 4

No.
We can still eat the animals and use animal parts for products, the problem is that individual humans and industries tend to waste a lot.

The Native Americans used all of an animal if they killed it. They ate the meat, used the skin for clothing/shelter, used the bones for jewelry and tools/weapons.

Killing for sport is depleting the Earth's resources. People who kill animals just to take the head home as a trophy but don't use the meat and other parts are contributing to the problem. So are the industries that encourage poaching or raising animals just to kill them for their fur or skin, or other body parts.

If humans were less wasteful. we'd have much less of a problem with so many species becoming endangered. Also contributing to the problem of keeping the animals safe is the feelings that most humans have that they are entitled to the Earth, that they own it. Humans take over the habitat of animals all of the word - we don't co-exist, we demolish what nature put there and build our brick-and-mortar habitat instead, leaving animals homeless.

How many animals have you seen dead on the road lately? If the road wasn't cutting through their home, and if we weren't depleting the natural resources that provided their food and water, they wouldn't have a need to cross the road looking for food and water. We've eradicated some species that used to keep populations of others in check.

Bears, Wolves, Bobcats are dangerous to us. So we remove them. Then we complain when the deer take over the forest and start eating our tulips in the front yard. Of course, if we leave nature alone, nature would take care of itself, and the bears, wolves, bobcats and other hunting creatures would keep the deer population in check. (This is just one example, there are many more!)

To summarize, because I see myself going off on an impassioned tangent, I think that we can protect the animals through conservation efforts and through moderation. We can still eat the animals, and use their parts for products. However. we need to be mindful of just how many animals we are killing, and do what we can for the ones that we don't need for food.

Answer 5

I love animals but this would not work.
this would cause over population and starvation in some of the wild animals.
most of the animals we eat are farm raised and would have no major effect on the wild population.
We need to be more enviromentallt friendly to help save the wild lifes habitat more than anything else I believe

Answer 6

If we "protect" animals. Some of them will overrun into our lives. Are you willing to sacrifice humans for animals?

To use animals for our purposes, is just the circle of life. To suggest that humans are not omnivores is to ignore thousands of years of evolution.

If you want to "protect" animals, fine, don't eat meat & don't wear fur/leather.

However, nothing gives your feelings "rights" over mine. To live in a free country means to live with people who do not believe as you do.

Answer 7

Well.... I eat beef, pork, chicken (but I think it's just nasty to eat dogs, cats, and rabbits) , but I am such a hypocrite because I LOVE animals! I would wear leather, but fur is definately where I draw the line! We should stop using fur, because that's just plain mean!

Answer 8

No. I ate two animals yesterday, and I'm going to eat some more today. And I wear leather shoes and a leather jacket.

I draw the line at fur, however.

Answer 9

no way if we did heards of cows would die off catch disease . there would be so many feral animals it wouldn't be safe to go outside. besides we didn't spend millions of years climbing to the top of the food chain to go back down again. vegetarian is a old indian word that means bad hunter

Answer 10

There is a food chain. We are at the top. Would you ask lions to stop eating gazelle?

Answer 11

Why not stop doing it for 10 years ....we owe the poor animals that much......Humans are such over breeding savages