Yes, they taste delicious.
Sorry, but what defines 'innocent'? Are humans 'innocent'? If not, does that mean it is okay to kill and eat humans? (Yuck!)
Is it okay for wolves to kill and eat 'innocent' deer? What makes the deer 'innocent' and the wolves not? Why is it okay for wild carnivores to kill and eat their prey, while it is not okay for humans to kill and eat prey?
I do agree that there are many changes that need to be made in the way we raise our food. Mass-producing beef, poultry, etc. leads to many cruel practices. I do prefer to buy cage-free eggs, etc. when I can.
However, I also enjoy wild meat such as wild rabbit, venison (deer) etc. These animals have lived their natural lives in the wild which I think is much preferable to living your life in a cage. I feel no shame at enjoying the photo my uncle showed me of the beautiful 8-point buck he shot, and then enjoying the meat of that same buck. It is not so easy to go into that animal's natural habitat and try to hunt and kill it. There are many reasons for hunting: the animal is wild and free, the meat is healthy and delicious, and it is a wonderful, free, primitive feeling to pit your predator skills against an animal who has learned to avoid danger since the time it was born.
I greatly respect hunters for these reasons, even more so than persons who are anti-hunting yet have no problem with gorging on chickens raised beak-to-tail in tiny cages.
Everyone must find their own place in the world. I also respect persons who do not eat any animal products because they are against the cruelty they see in the way food animals are raised today. Good for them. (I confess I don't have that sort of self-control. But my family has plans to raise our own rabbits for meat and chickens for meat and eggs, since we know what these critters will eat and how they are raised before they are killed to give us much-needed, delicious protein.)
2007-02-04 08:01:16
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answered by ? 7
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You are anthropomorphising animals by saying they are "innocent." Animals know no such label. They don't experience the same emotions we do. In the wild, they eat each other all the time. They eat to survive, and prey animals are always wary of predators. When one slips up at the wrong time, they are eaten.
It is a common ethical mistake to prescribe your own values onto a studied group. That is what you are doing by saying they are "innocent."
Yes, animals are tasty. And, yes, I have killed and eaten many of them myself. From rabbits to birds to deer and pigs. I have raised them all except for deer, and cleaned/skinned and processed them myself. It is pretty easy, and satisfying when you eat the food you got for yourself.
2007-02-04 08:10:39
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answered by Sabrina H 4
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Yeah. Sure, it's wrong to kill innocent animals for food, but it helps keep some animal populations under control. I wouldn't go and kill an animal because I wanted to because I love animals, but it helps keep animal populations under control and helps feed people. Not everyone wants to be a vegetarian and eat vegetables and tofu, even though there are other ways to get protein in like nuts and peanut butter. If you need to survive and there is no other way to survive than to kill animals, then kill animals.
2007-02-04 07:59:03
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answered by Anonymous
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1. you cannot put that many parameters on a question, the only answers will be informing you of how you shouldn't put that many parameters on a question. 2. I eat meat because it is part of a healthy diet. I recognise that an animal died to provide that food to me, but I can't weep over such things - if the animal were in the wild, there is a good chance disease or other predators would get it. (There is no shortage of cows, my friend.)
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answered by Whitney 4
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Yes, yes I do. It's all part of the food chain my friend, the way it was meant to be. If you choose not to eat meat, so be it. That is your personal choice and that's ok. Just don't ram the "you're eating Bambi" crap down other peoples throats - it get old fast and makes them want to sneak meat into your food, just so they can tell you later! Enjoy your lentils and I'll enjoy my steak!
2007-02-04 08:09:56
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answered by Baby boy arrived March 7th! 6
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I suspect that killing them, eating them, or wearing them tends to deaden the conscience and the higher moral powers. It makes people jaded. From an ecological standpoint raising cattle requires16x more land than would be required to grow an equivalent amount of crop-based protein. With thousands of humans starving every day, meat is a luxury that is becoming harder to justify.
2007-02-04 08:10:50
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answered by Steve71 4
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I'd much rather eat guilty animals, but they aren't labeled for guilt or innocence at the meat counter.
2007-02-04 07:53:30
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answered by heart o' gold 7
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if u need it 2 survive out in the wild yes but not like seeing a bunny and killing it and eatin it with a stick or somethin
2007-02-04 07:52:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Humans are omnivores, meaning we eat both plants and meat. People need to just deal with that. It's like to asking a tiger to eat lettuce. If someone chooses not to eat meat that is their own choice but leave me and my meat alone!
2007-02-04 07:56:39
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answered by AARON S 2
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Who says they are innocent, that is a human label, besides if they weren't supposed to be eaten, they wouldn't taste so good.
2007-02-04 07:56:35
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answered by CrazyFarmer 5
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