Is meat murder? does an animals life have the same vaue as a humans??

Answer 1

Respectively: yes, & yes.

The words "kill" & "murder" are interchangable.
the life of an another animal has an identical value to the life of a human animal, which is on a scale of 1 to 10: zero.
"Life" carries no intrinsic value, it is only the instinctual desire to live which makes it seem as such; the fact that you may happen to value life, is not enough to give life itself value-
if this were so, the price of cool stripy socks would skyrocket due to my own desperate & uncontrolable need to possess them.
It is this same instinctual desire to live which causes us to crave meat. Humans were meant to eat animals not because they (animals) are lesser, & not because god said it's ok, but because we are evolutionarily designed to do so-
our eyes are on the front of our heads in order to gauge the distance between we & our prey, we posess sharp incisors with which to tear flesh, & during the earliest stages of development the proper formation of our brains require the complete protiens which only the ingestion of meat can provide in abundance.
We are not "higher", we are not "better", & we have no "right", we are simply predators-
& "murder" is the way of our world.

Answer 2

Well, strictly speaking killing for meat isn't murder, any more than state execution would be. It's legal isn't it?

Ethical however? Now, that depends on your viewpoint doesn't it?

So since it's subjective I can only answer for myself and my view is that yes, an animal's life has the same 'value' as a human's. That's why I try not to harm any other creatures. But I am aware that this is not so easy and am pretty sure I have unintentionally stepped on an ant and worse.

But I can quite easily avoid eating meat and wearing leather, so I do.

Thanks for asking.

.

Answer 3

The circle of life requires that some animals eat plants and they are eaten in turn by other animals. If we disrupt that cycle by not killing the animals that would have died in nature, they will overpopulate and starve when their food supply dries up.

The real question should be is it better for a cow to live well for a few years or to never live at all? That would be the effect of the bleeding hearts on the livestock industry. Fewer cows born because demand would be low and the feed that would have been eaten by the cows will go directly to the people.

Answer 4

When meat is manufactured and at that consumes more grain than the entire human population, then the killing of these animals is not justified.

In the wild, each animal kills as the food chain permits. Humans have sidestepped natural evolution, removing any predators. This may come as a shock to you, but mankind is not meant to be at the top of the food chain. The way meat is had nowadays is completely unnatural.

Organic meats bring another aspect to this debate; if the animals are allowed to live a more natural life, are we more allowed to eat them, morally? In my opinion, yes, though I never would.

Onto the grain issue, the amount of grain fed to cows would be enough for END WORLD HUNGER for good. The amount of food put into the growth of a cow is not proportional. What's more, these cows produce more pollution through their feces than cars.

It's easy to turn your eyes from morals when it comes to cheaper stuff. Problem is, the morals are still there.

Answer 5

If we were trampled by a horse it would not be murder. It would be an accident. That said, the killing of animals for meat is not accidental. However, animals do not bear souls which in turn makes them a lesser species and their plight in life will not end the way ours will.

So no, meat is NOT murder, but if one feels that eating it hits them wrong morally, people should respect that. And vice versa of course.


:::Edit::: On a side note, God did NOT create animals for us to eat, in fact animals were created days before man but when sin entered the world through Adam and Eve's betrayl of God death entered the world and suddenly eating animals was a way of survival and acceptable to God. In fact some animals were forbidden for consumption until a later point in the Bible. Check out the book of Genesis if you're curious.

Answer 6

I think killing any being is a murder irrespective of the circumstances. Just like us human animals are also god's creations and if we can't give them life, we have no right to end their life either.

Answer 7

The truth of the matter is that no matter if we are a meat eater or a vegetarian, something must die for our consumption in order to maintain our physical bodies. In that we should understand how some of life must be sacrificed for life to continue. Now you know how important it is that we honor our connection to that which we consume for our existence.

Answer 8

To pet owners - yes. Otherwise it depends on the animal and how it is destroyed and for what purpose. A legal execution is considered murdur, but others oppose the idea. There will never be a satisfactory answer.

Answer 9

Animals do not have the same value as humans. God created animals for us to eat, and to create eggs like of course with chickens. But one thing to remember just because God gave us animals to eat doesn't mean that they deserve deplorable conditions, or being mistreated. They have not really a lower value, but a different value.

Answer 10

All life has the same value...why is it so diffcult for humans to accept that we are just animals that happen to be at the top of the food chain..nothing more, nothing less....