Why do people discourage eating meat so much?

Question

I find meat quite good and see nothing wrong with devouring the flesh of lesser creatures.

Answer 1

It's all about beliefs. Don't push yours on me and I won't push mine on you.

Answer 2

I loooove meat but I only discourage most of the grocery store meat.My views on beef: The cows are typically sick, they eat feces and other dead cows and pigs. They do not go out in the fields like healthy cows should. They are killed in an inhumane way which makes the meat unhealthy for our intake. Chemicals are added etc. These facts I have learned over the years is what helps me make my decision in going past the beef the majority of the time. They say pork is bad because well hogs eat anything and thus we eat it. Recently my father had 3 hogs killed and the meat was gooood mostly because I didn't have to worry about what chemicals were added to the meat . Hope that helps to understand where some us form opinions from!

Answer 3

They may be *lesser* in some ways but they still feel
it's not somethign to be pushed on others but most people are partial to disliking meat because of the way animals are inhumanely treated and killed. It may taste good but those who dislike it disregard taste for the most part and consider the fact that these animals were treated harshly; cows stunned still feeling jsut not moving and skinned in 5 seconds, chickens are stuck in electrocuted water, fish are suffocated. So taste is usually disregarded... and the meat is rather connected with the fact of supply and demand and what not.

Answer 4

Well, for me, it started with a choice to cut back, and the more I did, the less I missed it. I took a long look at factory farming, and found that when I took away all my social conditioning, I just couldn't support it. Lesser or not, living things have rights. Looking at how animals are treated like product, not living things, turned me off. I started to realize that if I felt like my dog had rights, and if I loved her, I should accept that other animals did too. My family still hunts, and although I don't eat it, I don't have a problem with it. But I really feel like what happens to animals in factory farming is torture, starvation, and cruel. I also looked at the hormones and antibiotics given to animals, and thought maybe I didn't want those in my body.

I also looked at my previous meat consumption, and what my body was meant to have. I'm not a person who believes that humans were never intended to eat meat, but really, meat used to be an occasional thing, something we would gorge ourselves on and then maybe not have it for months. I think that many of the health problems in our society come from improper diets, not just meat, but also fats and such.

And finally, with the increasing population on this world, we will have to look at ways to feed people. Meat takes up a lot of resources like land, water, feed, ect. Now, it is true that if everyone stopped eating meat and we continued to breed animals like we do now, there would be a huge problem. But a little common sense tells us that we would not continue to breed animals if we weren't selling them for food. These animals are breed at rates amazingly higher than their natural ones.

Also, just to point out, the recent food contaminations have all been from bacteria found in the feces of animals (including humans). They plants have been contaminated by animal feces in the water supply, and often these are linked to nearby factory farms.

Anyway, since you asked, these are my answers to your question.

Answer 5

Some people believe that the natural human diet is a totally carnivorous one, and that all vegetables are toxic. They do not eat anything but meat, eggs and cheese, and claim that the body does not aged as much as the bodies of those who eat a diet considered to be more normal. In addition, they are convinced that insulin, released by the pancreas when carbohydrates are ingested, is the cause of much damage to human tissue and that both forms of Diabetes Mellitus are caused by the ingestion of carbohydrates.

Answer 6

well it's everones choice. it seems to me you just want to pick a fight posting that question on the vegetarian thread which just goes to show that the vegetarians were NOT trying to push their views onto you, and that if you are trying to be rude and start somethign you are very immature....whcih is not a surprise by reading your post.
Not everyone is suck in the ways of the neanderthal, even if our ancestors did eat meat (which is debatable all the way from people being total vegetarians to people eatting each other with lots of proof each way.)
Humans have evolved since then!!

What sets humans apart from other animals is supposed to be their sense of compassion. DO you have compassion for other living things?? Or are you just on the same level as other animals.

If you have compassion for them then even if you eat meat you would choose to eat meat from better sources, local family owned farmers, organic, or free range. Not chain brands, fast food, and mass produced sources. Animals raised on factory farms don't get a chance to live any sort of life. They start out in a barn, they are confined to a place so small they cannot turn around, and sometimes cannot even stand up. They are force fed things they never would eat in the wild like ground up bits of other animals and are pumped full of hormones and antibiotics so they can be your "perfect" meat. Then they are hung upside down by their legs on a conveyor belt and dipped into scalding tanks all while alive. If you've ever had a pet you know that animals are not just total zombies. They do feel pain, they do feel love, and they are not totally 100% stupid. They are living creatures and no creature deserves to be tortured but thats what is done now a days in the farmining industry. PURE torture.
If you support torture of such things do not claim you have compassion.

If you do not have compassion for other living things and are on the same level as other living wild creatures, and are not above them then how come you cannot handle the deed and go out and hunt and kill the animal yourself like other living things do?? If its nature why do humans take such an un-natural apporch to eating animals?? They are to afraid of the reality! they do not want to get their hands dirty.

What I feel sets humans apart from other animals is not their compassion as they claim, its their greed. People will kill for a shiney stone or a piece of paper with a presidents face. They will torture other animals to prove their brand of shampoo or orange juice is better. All the while the animals in the natural world only take what they need to survive. To make themselves a home, keep themselves warm, feed themselves so they can live, and feed their infants but humans eat meat for the sole reason "it taste good"

Answer 7

Possibly because meat is less energy efficient than vegetation. For example, if you eat the plants directly, you get 10% of the energy it generated (in a manner of speaking). If you eat the cow, the cow gets the 10% from the plants, and then you get 10% of the energy from the cow. Hopes that makes sense.

Answer 8

Find the video of the documentary "Meet Your Meat". Its not about animals being "lesser creatures"... its about how unsanitary and inhumane these animals are killed and slaughtered. Its disgusting... enough to make me stop eating animal products and stop feeding them to my children too.

Answer 9

http://www.savethesheep.com/f-ausliveexport.asp
Save the Sheep! > Further Abuses of Australian Animals Exposed in Gruesome Investigation

http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
GoVeg.com // Cruelty to Animals: Mechanized Madness

http://peta.com/actioncenter/testing.asp
PETA's Get Active Center :: Learn :: Animals Used for Testing


watch those

Answer 10

How are they lesser creatures? I hear people go on and on about lies in "vegetarian propaganda" but have you ever considered the carnivore propaganda that a cow is considered a lesser creature? i dont consider you a lesser creature Its not nice! how can anything be lesser?

Answer 11

"People" per se (as in the majority of the planet) DONT. Vegetarians and vegans DO. If you're spending time on veggie & vegan boards, expect to be talking to people who discourage eating meat.