If people know what happens in a slaughterhouse and on factory farms, why do they keep eating meat?

Question

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YoursTruly is so wrong on #3.

Answer 1

Because it tastes good and you can't get blood out of a turnip.

Answer 2

For the same reason we haven't made serious changes to our national agricultural policies on the subsidization of corn. If the food is there, we eat it. We (Americans) don't seem to care that the food we eat is made using more fossil fuel fertilizer than natural compost and animal waste. We don't seem to care that it's running off into our rivers and oceans, creating huge "dead zones" where nothing can survive the nitrogen content of the water. We don't seem to care that the nation has no food culture of its own and actually has government agencies arguing over the lay out "food pyramids" which are obviously FAILING the American people in terms of health and nutrition. We don't seem to care that we are more than what we eat--- we are also what the SOIL eats, and our soil is sick with us. We don't seem to care that DIABETES is a more common killer among adults than ever before. We don't seem to care that as intelligent omnivores we can DECIDE what to eat rather than simply eat what we are told to. There are great tragedies taking place in this world, it's true. Animals on factory farms are horribly mistreated.

But so is the rest of this poor fragile earth, man included.

If you really want to make a change in the way we live, start with education about proper care of the air and the soil, and work your way along the chain. Force people to treat the very earth with respect, and the factory farms and rows of maize and all the slaughterhouses will close down for good. We cannot simply treat the symptom. We must treat the diseases themselves.

The diseases of IGNORANCE and APATHY.

Answer 3

Some people DON'T know what's going on in slaughter houses and/or factory farms. While others might not care what goes on as long as they get their daily dose of meat. I know what goes on and choose not to eat meat anymore. There are also people that would like to become a vegetarian/vegan but can't due to health issues. There are many different reasons.

Answer 4

When they make a tofu steak that tastes like the real thing and is affordable, I'll buy into that. But until then...I'm all in.

However, what you don't note is that meat that is Halal or Kosher is NOT subject to the conditions you are referring; the slaughtering is done quickly and cleanly by hand so as to have a minimum of suffering and the meat is required by religious law to be clean and for the animals to be healthy. If they are not healthy when slaughtered (when the animal is inspected even a broken leg or a gashed wound disqualifies the meat) then the meat cannot be kosher or halal.

That's far more ethical than animals in nature treat their kills.

Answer 5

I don't know, I've been a vegetarian for a year and some months along with my sister. My brother and five of my cousins saw the video with me and my sister but still eat meat. I think it's because "they" don't kill the animals, they are greedy, or (my brothers favorite) they can't survive without meat.

Answer 6

Some people don't really know what happens.
Other people know, but they just don't care. Or they think vegetarian food is only for wimpy little girls or hippies.
Or maybe they think that a vegetarian lifestyle is expensive, unhealthy, or just plain crazy. Or they're afraid to try new things.

Or maybe they would go veg if they knew more vegetarians personally.

Answer 7

Same reason why people who know millions of animals die in shelters every year continue to let their pets have puppies and kittens.

Same reason why people get a puppy, then either give it away, dump it at the pound, or chain it up outside when it turns into a dog (most likely a "bad dog" since they never took any time to train it).

Same reason why people get their cats declawed.

Same reason why "pet" bunnies are thrown in backyard hutches and only given human contact when they run out of food.

Same reason we see "moving, can't keep" ads in every single newspaper in the country.

People just don't give a damn. It's sad. The animals deserve better... and those people don't deserve animals!

Answer 8

sadly, people have become remarkably insensitive to this kind of thing. their excuse is "well it just tastes so good". i think because they haven't experienced it personally (i.e. seen the inside of a slaughterhouse), they can just lie to themselves and say "oh that's not true". or even worse, they can say something like "oh well it's already dead so i might as well eat it". many people tend not to notice or care about the suffering of other living things unless they are directly connected to them. that's what distinguishes vegetarians & vegans from meat eaters.

Answer 9

I think if we literally had to hunt and kill all that we eat, more people would become vegetarians. When we buy meat at the grocers wrapped in plastic on a Styrofoam tray it somehow allows us to distance ourselves from the reality of the fact that at one time, that piece of meat we are buying was walking around and someone had to kill it to get it on that tray!

Answer 10

They don't think about it when they're eating or it just doesn't bother them, or sometimes they might not even know. Either way it hasn't really stopped people from eating meat. It's a way of life and it's something our body needs. A lot of stuff that PETA claims isn't always true, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Answer 11

Meat eaters eat it for many reasons, mainly, its cheap and convienent.. also I think its like smoking people get addicted and have cravings for it. And dont send people to peta.org Shoving your way of life onto people is lame, itd be like someone sending you pic of a hamburger.. its gross and wrong!