Do you think animals have feelings,If so why do we eat them !!!?

Answer 1

yes i think animals have feelings.they are not in english or perceived like those of humans.they are capable of learning then they can feel.feel sorrow,pain,delight.

as far as eating them is natural.the unnatural part is cooking them or for fun.if animals,carnivors,can detect weakness,injuries and tend to oust or eat them,that shows not only a feeling,survival,but shows natural selection.too many people are caught up in the easiness of modern society.if you were brought up in a tribal society their views would be different.they would not have choice or if they chose to only eat certain things they would most likely be ousted as being weak.i say freedom of choice,you eat what you like and leave me alone and i will do the same.why try to deny a primary need,desire.has the modern world gotten so modern that they deny this urge?i am against the unneeded killing of animals,if you kill it you better have a good use for it.food, it was destructing or it was a threat to you and yours.

Answer 2

Several perspectives to examine here.

Wonder what animals think that eat each other, lions, grizzlie bears, alligators? Wonder what some of these animals thought when they ate people. In Alice of Wonderland, if my memory is correct, Mr. Walrus cried about eating Mr. Oyster, but he did.

Animals differ. No matter what people say about snakes tasting like chicken, I am not going to eat one. I really cannot muster up much emotion about eating a chicken. Chickens are really stupid and simple. Pigs are actually very smart, that might have something to do with the fact I rarely eat pork. Or it could be at age 50 I have a weak stomach. Sausage, etc. really bothers me. I don't particularly like the idea of eating lamb or deer. They seem more noble than chickens. Actually, lamb is too expensive for me. Someone, gave me some deer once, and I used it for beef stroganoff. It was good, the deer tasted like lean beef.

As an ethical matter, would it really being the killing of an animal,fish that is the moral problem. In other words, killing to eat it. On this premise opossums killed on the highway would be fair game. The possum is already dead, you are not killing something to eat. It would, in fact, clear up the road, if enough vultures are not available. The problem here though is that I hear (no firsthand knowledge) that possum is too greasy. Boy that would really mess my weak stomach up!

Plants are shown to react to stimluli, so one cannot be totally sure that say broccoli or egg plants do not suffer when pulled, cut, and boiled or baked.

Readers may want to consider above factors in planning meals.

Answer 3

Yes animals have feelings.......they respond to pain just like a human. If you were to go up and hit a cow it would cower away and make a sound because it feels the pain. We eat animals because we were taught to from our past generations. It is a proven fact humans can survive without eating meat.

Answer 4

I don't think most animals have feelings and I don;t think they can suffer. Oh, they can feel pain, of that I am in no doubt, but I don't think they are conscious. That they aren't conscious means that they don't know they exist, and as such they can't comprehend pain.
Imagine someone in a coma. If you were to go and stick a pin in their arm, knowing they couldn't feel it, would it be mean? Of course not; their nerves would still carry the message of pain as before, and they might even pull away, but they, being unconscious, wouldn't be able to feel it or suffer. It's the same for many animals.

Any movement most animals makes is governed by instinct, albeit very complex instinct, but that alone. They react to a situation in much the same way as, were you to stick your hand over a flame, you're pull it back instantly. That they can react to situations doesn't mean they are conscious. They can't adapt to unfamiliar situations. They can't do anything other that what comes natural to them. Although they are very much alive, they don't know that they are, and as such they can't suffer. Therefore, why should you feel bad for animals, when they can't?

if enough people went veggie to actually affect the industry at all, and the demand for meat decreased, it would mean animals which were surplus to requirement. You're kidding yourself if you think that would mean they'd live happily ever after, as they couldn't be sold no one would want to keep them, and they'd still be slaughtered.
Think about it, the second farmers couldn't sell their livestock, the second they couldn't make a profit, they wouldn't keep them any more. Keeping animals isn't cheap, and to keep them, without profit, would be hugely expensive to any farmer. How many do you reckon would be prepared to make that kind of loss?
Now, what'd happen then? Maybe a few wild pigs or goats would stay alive, but for the most part it would be impossible to release them into the wild. The vast majority would have to be slaughtered.

I quote "If no one were allowed to farm animals, farms would grow crops instead. The first thing to go would be all the animals. Once the rural landscape were rid of cattle, sheep, and the like, fields would get larger, for the convenience of the combine harvesters, and hedgerows would go. Wild animals like rabbits would now be a more major pest. No farmer would want animals eating the plants, and so the war on such animals would intensify. Grown in the fields would be domesticate species of food crops, and so the number of plant species would decline."

Domestication is one of the best things that can happen to animals. If the golden eagle tasted any good you can bet your life it wouldn't be nearly extinct.

I quote "In the wild, a sheep would have to look for food, compete for it, jockey for position in the herd, look out for predators, guard its offspring, and it one day would die because of some accident, perhaps a fall, some nasty illness, or it would become weak and have its throat ripped out by the local predators. By striking contrast, the life of a farmed sheep is rather different. A farmed sheep has complete protection from predators; all the food of exactly its favourite kind at its feet all day every day, for which it does not have to compete; no competition for mates; no need to guard offspring; free health care; free haircuts; it is very unlikely to die in childbirth, and unlikely to die a nasty death. True, half a ewe’s offspring are taken away and killed. However, in the wild, a ewe would lose most of its offspring anyway, and in nastier circumstances. By the standards of the natural wild, a sheep’s life is about as cushy as a life could possibly be."

This is true, animals in the wild invariably die violent deaths. the closest an animal will get to dying of old age is being picked by a predator because it it old and therefore an easier to target, and never something so nice as a quick bolt through the brain. Farmed animals invariably lead happier, healthier, less stressful lives than those in the wild.

Answer 5

@ Rev. Dr. Glen:
Several perspectives to examine here.

"Wonder what animals think that eat each other, lions, grizzlie bears, alligators? Wonder what some of these animals thought when they ate people. In Alice of Wonderland, if my memory is correct, Mr. Walrus cried about eating Mr. Oyster, but he did."

- I'm not sure the relevance of the above statements. Nor the point you are trying to make.

"Animals differ. No matter what people say about snakes tasting like chicken, I am not going to eat one. I really cannot muster up much emotion about eating a chicken. Chickens are really stupid and simple."

- As that may be, that is no reason to eat them.

Pigs are actually very smart, that might have something to do with the fact I rarely eat pork. Or it could be at age 50 I have a weak stomach. Sausage, etc. really bothers me. I don't particularly like the idea of eating lamb or deer. They seem more noble than chickens.

- Again, there is no morally justifiable reason for eating one and
not the other.

"Actually, lamb is too expensive for me. Someone, gave me some deer once, and I used it for beef stroganoff. It was good, the deer tasted like lean beef."

- You descriptions of meat eating are unnecessary in this section.

"As an ethical matter, would it really being the killing of an animal,fish that is the moral problem. In other words, killing to eat it."

- The same could be asked of killing a human, would it really be wrong to kill a human if you were intending to eat him or her? Of coarse it would. Its no different for animals.

"On this premise opossums killed on the highway would be fair game. The possum is already dead, you are not killing something to eat. It would, in fact, clear up the road, if enough vultures are not available."

- As that may be, the percentage of people who eat meat this way in the entire country must be less than the number of vegans in Texas. Thus the ethics of eating meat in this way are largely irrelevant.

"The problem here though is that I hear (no firsthand knowledge) that possum is too greasy. Boy that would really mess my weak stomach up!"

- I don't really think that is the problem here.

"Plants are shown to react to stimluli, so one cannot be totally sure that say broccoli or egg plants do not suffer when pulled, cut, and boiled or baked. Readers may want to consider above factors in planning meals."

- Well, since a nervous system is required to feel according to current scientific knowledge, I think we have very little to consider about how plants feel about being eaten until evidence to the contrary becomes available.

Answer 6

Well people needs business to make money and people just eat some people thinks animals has NO feelings.Thats why i feel sad for animals i just cant stand watching them being eaten... a poor animal thats why i am a non-animal eater...

Answer 7

I used to not give this question much thought. Then I met Koko, the gorilla. A phenomenal creature! She can communicate! Then it gave me anxiety. What if all animals think and feel exactly like us but they just don't have the means (larnyx, hands) to communicate in the means that we do. It's a scary thought really.

Answer 8

Animals probably have feelings, but most likely don't have the ability to reason. We eat them because humans as a species are Omnivores, and while it may concern some that animals have feelings, it is much more important to others that they are able to eat. It's just part of nature.

Answer 9

of COURSE animals have feelings! that's why i don't eat them =)

Answer 10

Animals DO HAVE FEELINGS! I don't know why people would kill an animal, just for a hamburger...