Why did people even get the idea of starting to eat meat? it's terrble and gross!?

Question

ok Native Americans just think they can come to America and start killing animals? no no no if i was there you don't even want to know. and theneveryone started copying them and it gives u cancer and ur killing animals people! its not right!

Answer 1

We are animals. We are omnivores. Our bodies need protein and that's why primitive Man ate animals. He didn't get cancer from it because there were no growth hormones or preservatives pumped into it at that time. HUMANS are giving us cancer, not animals.

Answer 2

How about we throw you in the middle of nowhere and take away your tofu...lets see how well you survive on nuts and berries. I really wish that vegetarians would get off their self righteous moral high horse and realize that animals, yes humans are animals, come in all shapes and sizes, including, herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. In case you don't know your biology, humans are biologically predisposed to be omnivores...which means we eat vegetables AND meat. Can someone pass the steak please?

Oh and by the way.... those Native Americans you talk about...scientists believe these people first migrated to the Americas more than 10,000 years ago, Native Americans excelled at using natural resources and adapting to the climates and terrains in which they lived. You on the other hand, would not last a week without your local Walmart Superstore.

Answer 3

People started to eat meat long before the Native Americans. It's a matter of survival. Humans were adapted to eat both vegetables and meat because that automatically doubles their food source. It allowed them to survive even during times when vegetation was scarce; they could eat other animals and still stay alive.
While humans were still hunter-gatherers, their methods of killing animals were not particularly brutal compared to other animals. They didn't get cancer from meat because it wasn't full of extra chemicals and preservatives, and it was much fresher.
As humans began to gather together in more dense settlements, food had to be manufactured on a larger scale, so the slaughter of animals became more mechanized and less humane.
Please, don't go off on Native Americans. They were a very resourceful group of people; they used every part of the animal and treated it as a blessing. Modern Americans only use the meat of cows, and treat it as though it's their right to have it. Your apparent anger is misguided, and, though I understand where you are coming from ethically, your tone and prosyletizing attitude give a bad name to vegetarians and vegans everywhere.

Answer 4

Even though it's in the bible that people ate meat and that it's an
o.k. choice, I prefer not to. But back then, animals were clean and they were treated and killed humanely. Today, with every bite of pork or beef you're getting a bite of antibiotics, hormones, and preservatives. Yuk! And with all good conscience, I can't eat meat when I know these animals suffered terribly. Take chickens, for instance. They are kept in crowded cages from the time their born, de-beaked and thrown against walls and stomped on. Some are still alive when they hang them upside down and dip them in boiling water to de-feather them. For some eye opening videos, everybody, check out www.peta.com and look under "resources". You'll see videos. Click on it. After you watch a few of these, you may very well never touch meat again. For those who protest that they don't want to sacrifice taste, you don't have to. They now make meatless "meat" and "chicken" so tasty you'll never know the difference! I help convert others to vegetarianism by giving them home cooked veggie meals and they are amazed. For instance, morning star makes "beef steak strips". I fry them up in a skillet with onion, red pepper, garlic, and fajita seasoning. Put it on a warm tortilla and you'll never know you're not eating meat! Soy "meat" is higher in protein than the real thing and 99 percent fat free.

Answer 5

ROFL.....Native Americans didn't "come to America"....the Spaniards, Vikings, Italians, British came to the "New World", the Native (see definition below) Americans were here thousands of years before us!!

NATIVE implies birth or origin in a place or region !

INDIGENOUS applies to species or races and adds to NATIVE the implication of not having been introduced from elsewhere!

ABORIGINAL implies having no known race preceding in occupancy of the region!

Man has been a meat eater since "he" began standing upright!

I'm sorry, but your statement is toooo funny!!

"Native Americans just think they can come to America and start killing animals?"

Why do you think humans have canine teeth? ans....for ripping and tearing MEAT!
I don't know where you have obtained your information about "meat" causing cancer! As someone else answered, "Growth hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, etc...etc... are the carcinogens!
NOT MEAT!
If you do some in depth research, you will discover that "vegetarians and "vegans" are more likely to have serious health problems then we "savage meat eaters"!!

Still laughing!! No offense to you!

Semper Fi
CJ

Answer 6

in order of questions asked:

1) because they were hungry
2) not, it's quite lovely to eat a good juicy steak
3) what? Native Americans came to America? Look up Native in a dictionary
4) not a question
5) cancer? not proven in any way, shape or form
6) possibly. lot of things happening on this planet that is not right. Animals kill animals too, is that wrong too? Gonna ask Leo the Lion to just eat grains from now?

I agree with you 100% that the bio-industry is wrong. It's disgusting, and gross, and it degrades animals to products and humans to consumers.

But I don't agree at all that eating meat is wrong. Both our teeth and intestinal tracts say we are omnivores. As such, we can eat pretty much anything. This happened because we evolved to survive in a diverse environment. It's quite likely that our ancestors (before the tool use and hunting) were scavengers, living off of the remains of the kills of bigger animals or even our own dead.

Answer 7

what a great question. a book by Colin Spencer explains it all. survival urged primitive people. then meat cooking and eating became part of sacred ceremonies or special celebrations - you are really in touch with Life and its opposite, when you kill animals and eat meat. thus men expressed power over Nature. and the interpretations of the Bible didn't help animals.
nowadays eating meat is not so necessary: it is cruel and useless, and even unhealthy. "Sooner or later humankind will have to apologize for this" Leonardo da Vinci once wrote in the 15th century. And Leonardo is said to be a genius. There is much to meditate for us all. Read Spencer's book, it's interesting

Answer 8

Uh, yeah, we thought we could just come here----we're NATIVE AMERICANS, for God's sake!. I'm Native American (with hair courtesy of Manic Panic thank you), and you need to watch your racist comments. It's hilarious that you think you know what everyone needs to do when you can't even spell properly. Step off the self-righteousness train and help human beings first.

We don't all hunt either---that's even MORE freaking racist. Good gracious. Some little yonega (look it up) gal doesn't have the right to talk about our many cultures in such a way.

Answer 9

uhm... not to be mean or soemthing... u vegeterian? well, they HAD to kill the animals. it was either them or the animals. and meat does give humans proteins and stuff. and, i understand cows and chickens and pigs and fish... cuz they're really meant to be food. i mean as long as ppl are not killing animals that are endangered right? and in those days... because of the ice age... there WAS no way to plant plants... soo they had to kill but in their cultures, they do respect the animals and kill them fast. take the plains indians, they hunted the buffaloes. but they killed them fast so they wont have to suffer and they also use EVERY part of the animal so it wont go to waste. and now, i dont think they hunt anymore but if they do probably for some special occasion and they dont just go and kill they choose the ones that are about to die anyway... and meat is part of a human's diet. soo hope that helps.

Answer 10

It wasn't the Native Americans that started it all. It dated back all the way into ancient times, when dinosaurs were carnivores and herbivores. Then cavemens or B.C. related histroical times of men hunting animals for food began to take place. Its all over the world, we can't do nothing about it. Besides, meat has iron, an important mineral our bodies need.

Answer 11

Learn your pre-history and understand that we started eating meat protein well before we even became Homo Sapiens... AND that it is because of that protein that we developed a larger BRAIN that allowed us to think.

You're logic and statement is so flawed that it makes a statement FOR eating meat. You state that we developed our meat-eating from meeting the Native Americans ?? We were herbivores prior to coming to North America ??

And just for the others, we are Omnivores not Carnivores...