Why are innocent animals and birds killed for food and fashion?

Question

Innocent animals and birds being sacrificed to satisfy our taste to such an extent that some species are becoming extinct. Animal already serve us in almost all spheres of life, from agriculture to industry and many more…. Isn’t it time that we start giving them their due respect, their due position in our society?

Answer 1

You have asked the meaning full questions? I also thing why people killed the innocent animals..

Answer 2

For berr1es,

Certain species of shark and tuna, such as the blue fin tuna, and other fish are being quickly depleted out of the oceans due to fishing companies ignoring the regulations on how much they can harvest from the ocean. What's worse is that the sharks which are going extinct are being harvested only for their fins...the rest of the (now dead) fish is simply thrown back into the water.

Although its not exactly harvested for food, the black rhino is another example of an animal that is going extinct because of human greed. The horn is considered highly valuable on certain Asian markets as a sort of "natural viagra". Just as we nearly did with the American Bison (Buffalo) in the United States, the animal is being killed for only for its horn. The absolute disrespect of this comes in the fact that the animal does not have to be killed for its horn...the animal can be "hunted" using tranquilizer guns and its horn sawed off while it is asleep. Just as a sheep can grow more wool, or a cow can produce more milk, the black rhino's horn grows again over the next year. Leaving the creatures alive would allow for a very sustainable harvest of the horns, and keep the animal from going extinct.

Answer 3

Nowadays, animals aren't usually killed in the wild and then eaten. They have farms where they raise cattle and turkey and pigs specifically for the point of making beef and ham and other meat. This doesn't make killing them a good thing, but it's probably better than going out in the wild and killing them. Becoming a vegetarian is really your own opinion. If you actually feel guilty when you eat meat, then you can talk to your family about becoming a vegetarian. A lot of stores sell soy hamburgers (soy is a kind of plant) that taste fairly similar to real hamburgers but were made with no harm to animals.

Answer 4

Why are animals innocent? If you were truely understanding of the ways of nature you will find that there is a cycle of life, where one species uses another as its source for food.

My young daughter was looking out the window and saw a grasshopper caught in a spider's web. She was in tears and called me to help the innocent grasshopper. I did so gladly. I picked up the grasshopper and standing in front of the window so my daughter could see me, I tossed the it in the air. At that very moment a bat swooped down and captured the grasshopper before it hit the ground.

The moral of this is that if we are to be truely enlightened then we must view ourselves as a part of the balance in the earth. This means that we use plants and animals and the things of this world to provide us sustainance. However, we also seek to provide for the earth to the same measure that we take from it.

Answer 5

This is not totally true.

Most of the things we consume is raise by us for consumption.

This includes wood for housing and paper for reading. Every thing that we eat vegetables, meat, fish and poultry.

Egg that we eat are not fertilise(they are ovum only), so if they are not consumed they will rot and go to waste.

We would have depleted all resources by now if we were not doing so.

Hunters even have to get the permits and it is part of the wild life management program in most places and in most country.

People do break laws but if reported they go to jail and pay big fine. Even killing by mistake of any wild life is subject to fine (example, you can kill with permits a male dear in a given season only, female has special permit, and the season, fine for mistake is very high, $ 5000/- all hunts are tagged and accounted for by game warden, believe me system works well and I can still enjoy the sight and sound of the wild life in my back and front yard).

Without systematic thinning of herd some spices cannot survive and without management of wildlife we will not have any food to eat, birds will pick the fields clean and.......

I do not hunt and I am almost a vegan. But credit must fall where it belong, people have to make informed decision. If all of us turn vegetarian over night we would starve to death, there will be no food to eat.

Answer 6

I respect every piece of steak I eat and every piece of chicken I fry.

The problem with your point of view is that you seem to forget that humans are animals.

We treat our prey with the same respect as any other animal on the earth treats their prey.

We are at the top of the food chain for a reason.

Answer 7

Yes, we need to stop these cruelities against animals, especially since they are not killing us for food or fashion. I am a pure vegetarian, don't even eat eggs. My doctor, friends and even the Uncle in my neighbourhood have adviced me to start eating eggs at least, for my hair and skin. But I have always said no; not because I belong to a brahmin family who will never stand non-veg food in the house, but because I am against killing of animals even for food. I just don't understand why people need to eat non-vegetarian food. I mean nature has given us so much to eat, then why kill these poor, innocent beings for pleasure and feast? And it's completely insensible to kill them for fashion and pleasure! People who eat eggs say that they are not non-vegetarian, but the fact is what they have eaten today could have been a living-being tomorrow. Recently when Bird-flu occured, I saw it as a revenge that nature and animals were taking from humans for being cruel towards them. And I was infact happy that atleast for some time people had stopped killing these innocent things.

Once I had asked the Uncle in my neighbourhood that what is the need to kill animals for food? Nature has given us so much to eat! His reply was - we need to kill and eat them or else they will kill us. But why would they kill us? What I know is that animals attack only when they are attacked. In the animal kingdom big and strong animals attack the small and week for food - it is a natural order. But God's natural order did not consist of man killing animals for food. Today we come across so many incidents of animals venturing into places with civilisation and attacking people. We call them beasts and man-eaters. But have we ever thought that why they do such things. They have enough to eat in the forests where they live, then why to come to the city for hunting? Because we have encroached into their living place, disturbed their natural order and started hunting them down for our sport and pleasure. So if we don't want the animals to turn into man-eaters, we first will have to stop killing them. Why don't we think that had the animals been in our place and had they been killing us for taste and pleasure, how would we have felt? These innocent creatures don't have brains to think but they have a heart to feel, and they feel hurt when their fellow beings are killed.

Answer 8

Animals are not people. They have no souls.

God made us stewards of the earth. Read Genesis sometime.

He gave us the animals and the plants for our use - as food, as shelter, as clothing.

Answer 9

Birds kill insects to eat. Cows kill grass to eat. There is no such thing as an "innocent" animal. Including humans. Pass the salt, please.

Answer 10

We give them as much respect as they give us. Every creature has to eat to live, and animals eat animals to live, so I don't see why we shouldn't do the same.