slaughter house?

Question

if you saw animals being slaughtered tomorrow, would you consider turning vegetarian?

Answer 1

Slaughter houses played a big role in my choice to become Vegan. Prior to two months ago when I became Vegan I had been Vegetarian for five years.

Answer 2

Sorry, but I'm a country boy and a hunter. Personally taking my food from field to kitchen is nothing new or special to me, either animal or vegetable.
If you saw the winter browse line in the woods and deer dying due to overpopulation, would you be willing to kill and eat a few to help alleviate the problem? Too much of their habitat has been taken over by urbanization and conversion to agriculture, so there are a few more steps involved but vegetarianism has its ethical downside as well.

Answer 3

Nope.

And yes, I've seen the video by PETA and other such groups. I hunt, that means I gut and skin my own animals, not the most pleasant task, but if you eat meat then someone has to do it. For the record, I try to use the entire animal I kill for food, if something gives its life so we can eat, weather it be plant or animal, we owe it respect. Something a LOT of people forget, you owe your life to something else, plant or animal. Just something to think about.

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To Julia:

Every heard about Zambia, you know that little country where the environmentalists talk them out of accepting GM food, how many people starved to death over that? There was an over population problem that was solved with murder, yes I consider the people who talked Zambia out of the food murders. If give a choice of GM food or death what would you choose? Or better yet, a choice of dead cow or death what would you pick?

Now if you are living in a house, apartment, RV, ETC, you have taken habitat from animals, and more in likely caused their deaths. We, that includes you, have displace mainly predators from their habitat, that has led to an over populations with deer, rabbits and other such animals, and unless you want cougars, bob cats, wolfs, etc in your neighborhood, and willing to put up with the loss of life, human and animals, then man has to take the place of those predators.

I wonder how chartable you’d be if your daughter or grand daughter was killed by a pack of wolfs? After all they were just doing what nature intended. I know how dangerous predators can be, and personally I don’t want them around. And before you jump up and down, yes I know MOST predators will not go after man, but that have been many cases where larger predators have hunted people down for food, and not all of them were sick or injured. Some figured out that people on the whole are pretty defenseless, especially the young ones.

You could just not have any hunting, or bring in any large predators, of course soon you will have an over population, then the first tough winter, or drought, the animals will slowly, painfully starve to death.

So there are you choices, have large predators running around, have hunters, or let the animals starve to death slowly.

Answer 4

I am vegetarian, I don't need to see it first hand to know that nothing should have to bleed or die in order for me to stuff my face and satisfy my own greediness. I believe you ARE what you eat, and I don't want to BE a dead animal. I have a varied and interesting vegetarian diet, far more interesting than most people I know. Killing animals is just wrong

Answer 5

Wow. I guess I am going to be the first to say yes. Well yes in a sense. Seeing what goes on in a slaugter house is what MADE me become vegetarian. I always knew that it was wrong of me to eat meat but seeing that first hand really changed my life.

Oh and to the "country boy". Sorry hun but how many times have you seen people get murdered due to "over population". This was there home way before it was ever yours.

Answer 6

I did but then after a time of being vegetarian I had so much trouble with soy messing up my body; I had to start eating chicken and fish on orders from my doctor.

Soy really messes up people who are on thyroid medication or that have thyroid problems.

Answer 7

it caused me to become vegetarian. I can not imagine how watching that would NOT turn someone veg. the killing of the innocent is unjust.

Answer 8

I'm not answering to ruffle you feathers but....

No, I bow hunt and have slaughtered my own kill in the field. It is the most organic mean an omnivore can consume and I think it tastes better that way.

Answer 9

No. Because I lived on a farm and if you want chicken, you kill a chicken.. If you want pork chops you kill a pig.. etc. If you want a potato you dig up the mother plant. If you want an apple you pick it from its mother's arms.. Everything is relevant to your upbringing.

Answer 10

no, i just wouldn't eat the exact animal meat i just saw slaughtered.