animal lovers who eat meat?

Question

i love animals so much, they just make my heart melt but i am also a big lover of meat (viking blood in me...) a while ago i watched a programme 'kill it cook it eat it' and i felt so horrible seeing the animals getting slaughtered but then when they cooked it i was like mmm... i could never give up meat. peoples views on this please

Answer 1

I love animals too. But I also love meat. I eat Lamb quite often and really like steak, I think its human nature to eat meat as our bodies are geared up for it. Couldnt eat Horse or Dog though. Guess its just the way I've been brought up to find it acceptable.

Answer 2

I think it is just a natural thing for humans to do. We have to eat and thousands of years ago that was all there was. I agree though, that some companies keep the animals in disgusting conditions and slaughter them in the worst way possible.
Just don't buy the really cheap meat and preferably organic.

Answer 3

Animals eat other animals, like black footed ferrets eat prarie dogs or cheetahs eat gazelles. We're just another animal. Plus, it's healthy. You get iron and stuff you need from meat.

Answer 4

I think becoming a vegetarian is a result of philosophical questioning and a state of mind.
Of course you can love your pets and animals and still eat meat simply because you haven't made the conscious choice in your head of associating the ones you find cute or love with food. On the other hand, the ones that you eat you dissociate from their original state and therefore don't find it horrible or cruel to eat them.
I think for many people it would be harder to eat the animals if they were involved in the whole process of killing them themselves.

Answer 5

I watched the first programme with the cow,the bit with the neck put me off eating any sort of meat ever again.I have not eaten meat since,I couldn't watch the following programmes with the pigs and chickens.I thought it was good though as it taught some people where are meat comes from.

Answer 6

We shouldn't feel guilty about eating meat. We are meant to eat it, and that's why we have such a big bunch of teeth in our heads. I like animals too, and that's why I eat meat that I know has been reared properly - eg fed properly, given room to roam and been killed humanely. Eating factory-farmed meat and eggs would make me feel more guilty. MEAT. YUMMY!!!!

Answer 7

I feel the same i love meat! but i know that if i had to kill an animal myself other than going to the supermarket that would be the time that i became a vegetarian because i wouldnt be able to do it. ....or maybe i would turn into hugh F-W from the river cottage and collect road kill?????? then again my name is not cletus.

Answer 8

I am an animal lover, did a degree on them, spend my spare time caring for them or observing them but we are also made as humans to eat them.

Everyones allowed their own free choice, I would find it hard to eat an animal i knew or saw die but thats the way it is. Other animals kill their food in much more immoral ways but i suppose thats what devides humans and animals...our sence of right and wrong.

eating what our body has evolved to eat surely cant be wrong tho. Sure animals could be raised and killed in better conditions but it is much bettee than what happens in other countries or years ago

Answer 9

Out on the plains of Africa, I don't think there's a single animal that dies of old age. Whether its a cow or a wilder beast, they all 'meat' a messy end. As for... if you eat it, you should kill it, well... I drive a car, but i can't fix one and do we really want to encourage people all over the country to start killing animals in their back gardens? If we weren't eating them, they wouldn't exist. They're not wild animals are they? what are they going to do..set all the sheep and cattle free to roam the hills of Kent?

If you absolutely had to provide for yourself and there was no such thing as supermarkets... you'd have no problem whatsoever, catching and killing your own meat. Cultures that have to do this, very often have a great deal of respect for their prey but very little mercy or pity.. (they'd starve to death otherwise).

Vegetarians tend to be like Evangelists.. you won't get any practical sense out of most of them... It's only because we eat meat that these animal exist in the first place. If we all become vegetarians... the cows, pigs, sheep and chickens would have to go! there are millions and millions and millions of them. Who's going to feed them when there's no profit in it? Can't you see that?

Answer 10

Eating meat has been in human's menu for thousands of years,in fact before man started planting,it was their main source of sustenance,I don't get these groups now that we shouldn't eat meat because it's cruel,but that's what happens when a certain group like PETA begins to dictate to the people how to live,I'm also an animal lover,but it doesn't stop me from eating meat,rule of thumb,don't eat meat from an animal that eats meat