If you eat meat, does that mean you are a bad person?

Question

The cashier at McDonalds who rang up my bacon, egg and cheese biscuit this morning was wearing a PETA 'No Fur' button on her shirt. I asked her about it because I don't wear fur coats and I was just curious. She said "They are not for people who eat meat...pause...people who care."

I was shocked as all get out when she said that. I thought to myself, does it mean I don't care because I eat meat? Was that right for her to say that?

I am just curious as to what the general opinion is on this matter. Is it true that if you eat meat that you don't care? Does it make you a bad person?

Thanks for understand everyone. I was really worried after what that lady said to me. I started to think about switching to a vegan diet because I am a good person. It really bothered me to have her say that. I don't think I am going to go back to that McDonalds. I couldn't even enjoy my bacon, egg and cheese biscuit after what she said.

Answer 1

That was rude of her to say....I do think that the girl need to check her button at the door when she shows up to work serving all us uncaring people our sausage biscuits, hamburgers, chicken nuggets and other MEAT products. I mean if eating it makes us bad...wouldn't serving it make her the devil in disguise?

Answer 2

Everyone who eats at McDonald's and works for it is supporting the animals suffering. PETA is against any type of cruelty on animals, so the cashier you saw there was probably someone who doesn't care that much about the animals. It doesn't make her better person then you.
But that doesn't mean you are a good person. Only a person with the pure heart and the clear mind is that person. Someone who makes someone to suffer, can't be a good person. It's the fact.
By going vegan you might be the lucky one, but that's just the first step.

Be natural! That's all you should do.

Answer 3

The moral inconsistencies in your stories are getting worse. First of all, I don't know any vegan, vegetarian or PETA supporters who would work in McDonalds. McDonalds, as I'm sure you are aware is the symbol of everything which Vegans are against. Mass exploitation of people, animals and landscape. It is simply making profit from the poor and un-educated masses who believe that somehow "filling up" on a McDonalds is going to make them feel better.

The other thing is that what she said doesn't actually match up to my experience of people who don't eat meat. I've never said to any of my meat eating friends "You obviously are an uncaring person because you eat meat" and I've never met another vegan who does.

It is obvious to me that this, like all the other scenarios you've posted in recent weeks, is entirely made up.

If you are trying to make a point, try to at least make your premis believeable. If you are going to make a phylosophical argument you must make it on the basis of true morality - no one who believed meat eating was wrong and made you a bad person would ever serve at McDonalds.

Eating meat does not make you a bad person, but killing for sport does - if you are indeed a fox hunter, you are a slave to the bloodlust of the neanderthals and that makes you less than the person you've evolved to be.

Answer 4

I seriously doubt any member of PETA would work for an organisation like McDonald's which exploits animals in the worse way.

I therefore am sure this question,like most of yours foxie is a lie.

On the other hand I am sick of being given odd looks for asking in supermarkets whether certain things are vegan.

Answer 5

i was at mcdonalds 5 years ago, i ordered combo with diet coke, the cashier says diet coke is not good for you, i was shocked as all hell, so i ask, why not, and she says it's got sweenters or whatever that's not good for me (her words not mine) you know what? best advice i ever got up till then, i was verythankful someone would tell me things like that.

it was right for her to say that, if you care, you would have seen the meet your meat video by peta, and the cashier gets paid $5 an hour, she don't care about you, she wants you to order, pay and leave, so she can help the next customer.

Answer 6

might want to you get fairly indignant in case you talked about someone kicking a labrador? in case you talked about someone throw a cat on a bonfire at Halloween, might want to that make your blood boil? might want to you consider all and sundry who dealt with a canines or a cat like that as scum?. if so,you know the position Onision is coming from. that is merely that he has prolonged his anger to the merciless therapy of animals to extra animals than you've. human beings are very illogical at the same time as it contains meat ingesting? and that i say that as a meat eater although in very small parts.

Answer 7

The possibilities of running into someone working at McDonalds wearing a PETA button, running into a vegan waiter at Red Lobster, and numerous other stories about a town full of vegans is obviously virtually impossible.

Too bad other people are fooled.

Answer 8

Not caring does not make you a bad person right away, just a "not caring". Your choice!
Apart from that, employees at McDonald's don't wear PETA buttons and don't give answers like that, because in both cases they loose their job.
But at least your conscience is stirring. Is it? Go ahead and do whatever you want, eat bacon, become a vegan, whatever!
Don't waste your time on Yahoo answers, go and write cheap novels, you have a talent for that. Or write stories for these cheap magazines called "My true story" you could make a fortune with that. :P

Answer 9

If she was a member of PETA, then what the hell was she doing working at McDonald's?! Also, I have to say that although I support PETA's aims, I think that woman went about everything the wrong way. First of all, she should have POLITELY explained to you the reason why she was wearing that button. Also, I don't think that eating meat makes you a bad person. I'm a vegetarian animal rights supporter, but I used to eat meat, and I also have a lot of friends and relatives who eat meat and who are good people. Don't let the words and actions of a few self-righteous jerks like that woman make you think that all vegetarian animal rights supporters are like that.

Answer 10

Not at all! Just cos I choose not to eat meat doesn't mean I'm a better person than anyone. Each to their own!

Answer 11

This is hot off the wires, courtesy of AP, UPI, and the Veganville Daily Enquirer:

"Local Citizen Wins All Expense Paid Trip"

The Lake Veganville Police Department announced today that it has received its 10,00th 'Dem Mean Veggematarians 'r Pickin' on Me" complaint this month.

In an amazing display of whining, bellyaching, and kvetching, Foxhunterguy managed to break his own previous record by complaining about the rude girl who waited on him at McDonald's today.

(Not to be confused with the rude city inspector who accosted him on his lunch hour, the rude person who called him a murderer as he ate his steak at a local restaurant, the rude high school kids who defiled his son's ham sandwich and then returned it to his Polly Pocket lunchbox, or any of the other 9,999 rude people who follow him around Veganville for the sole purposes of upsetting his delicate and sensitive nature.)

In acknowledgement of Foxie's achievement, the Veganville Police Department will be sending him on an all-expense paid trip to a deserted island aboard the garbage scow, "Leaking Louise."

Police Chief W.E. Bookum is quoted as saying, "It's such a beautiful time of the year for a cruise. You can easily see dozens of sharks, barracudas, and international pirates from the poopdeck. Just be careful not to slip in the poop."