would meat eating be acceptable (hypothetically) if factory farming was banned and hunting was the only means of obtaining meat? and only those species with abundant populations were being hunted?
just a hypothetical question.
2007-01-10 15:28:08 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
It's going to depend on the vegetarian answering.
Some vegetarians are vegeterians for personal health reasons.
Others because of how the animals are treated in the farming.
Others because of environmental factors.
Others because it's killing an animal.
Others because it's simply using an animal we have no right using.
If you think most vegetarians are vegetarians because of the factory farming, you've got it wrong. Besides, vegetarians don't go hunting, so why would you think that they would be okay with hunting as the only means of obtaining meat?
2007-01-10 15:38:00 · answer #1 · answered by glurpy 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think it would depend on why the person is a vegetarian. Personally I would probably eat some of the meat, if I hunted it myself. But most likely I would still be a vegetarian. I dont agree with killing an animal just so I can be full.
Some people are vegetarians because they dont agree with factory farming. Some because they dont agree with killing an animal for their food. And others have different reasons.
Basically people with different reasons will have different answers to your question.
2007-01-10 15:37:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. Vegetarians eat no meat, fish or poultry.
It does not depend at all on why you are vegetarian.
If you want to call yourself a vegetarian them you eat no meat, fish, poultry or any slaughter byproducts. It doesn't matter if its died naturally, road kill, you hunted it or its a factory farmed cow.
The definitions make no reference to how the animal is kept or killed.
I'm sure there is already a name for someone who only eats animals they hunt themselves.
Is it OK to commit murder if there are too many people around ? No
2007-01-10 21:13:25 · answer #3 · answered by Michael H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hypothetical answer is that since the most abundant animal population is people why arent meat eaters eating people! then we wouldnt need any factor farms for animals hypotheticaly anywayz!!
so hypothetically you as a meateater should go hypothetically eat yourself and stop asking vegetarians insulting questions!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-11 14:51:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
@ Victory:
”Until (historically) recent times, this is precisely how we got our meat. From Homo Ergastor to Thomas Jefferson, hunting was a common way to provide food for our families.”
- And this has what to do with whether a Vegetarian would eat it?
"Many anthropologists have suggested that it was meat-eating that spurred the development of our brains that made us human in the first place."
-And many suggest just the opposite. Including the ones just getting out of school, which suggests thats what being taught currently. Meat eating leading to brain development seems to be an outdated theory.
"It baffles me why anyone would want to call our forebears immoral for doing the one thing that lead to our existence.
- Slavery anyone?
2007-01-11 02:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Depends. Some people are vegs for their health. In that case, meat is meat is meat, however it is farmed. As for ethics people, would you like your mommy killed and eaten? Piglets wouldn't! As for environmental vegetarians, I guess its fine, though by eating meat you do add carbon into the air.
2007-01-10 22:24:36 · answer #6 · answered by Sam the Man 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a vegetarian because I can't stand the thought of eating something that has blood vessels running through it. So I don't think that would make a difference... not in my particular case, anyway.
2007-01-12 13:07:53 · answer #7 · answered by Emily W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, this is hilarious.
Until (historically) recent times, this is precisely how we got our meat. From Homo Ergastor to Thomas Jefferson, hunting was a common way to provide food for our families.
Many anthropologists have suggested that it was meat-eating that spurred the development of our brains that made us human in the first place.
It baffles me why anyone would want to call our forebears immoral for doing the one thing that lead to our existence.
2007-01-10 21:34:24 · answer #8 · answered by silvercomet 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well, if the scenario you're referring to actually happened, there would certainly be a LOT more vegetarians!
Aside from that, the answer would be an unequivocable no.
2007-01-10 17:01:45 · answer #9 · answered by beam_me_up_spotty 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a good question, but I agree with the person who stated that it depends on people's reasons for being vegetarian, personally, no, I wouldn't
2007-01-10 16:51:46 · answer #10 · answered by Dipti 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋