Is there something wrong with eating animals?

Question

I was just wondering wether its a preference or a moral stance.

Answer 1

if we were meant to eat meat, we would have shorter bowels for easier digestion, carnivorous teeth (no, those little canines we have do not count!), and we'd be able to hunt them in the wild like the other carnivores do. carnivores don't die from high cholesterol that is found from meat and cheeses. their bodies are designed naturally to handle these foods. is that true about any of us? we're not omnivores by nature... we are because of influence.

for some who simply don't like the taste of meat, it's a preference. i take it from a moral stance. imagine that cute little kitty dressed like link being gutted... it's the same thing with the cows, chickens, and all the other animals we consider as food. an animal is an animal. why do we get to choose which one lives and which one doesn't? because we're at the top of the food chain?? ha, top of the glutton chain, that's for sure.

there are also environmental effects associated with consuming animal products. with a little research in the right places, you'll see that there is more to it than just eating what we've been "programmed" to eat.

Answer 2

For me, I had an ethical problem with eating animals, and the damage livestock farming does to the environment. Before I decided to go vegan, I loved the taste of animals, especially pigs or cows, and most of all, salmon. Every time my family ate meat I'd think about how that meat had once been an animal, wishing it could run around and play with its siblings, who were now lying in the meat section of the grocery store. So it was no surprise that after a few months I had no desire to eat animals or their secretions.
So in short, previously a moral decision, now a preference and even more of a moral thing.

Answer 3

With the whole question of a biblical answer it is right that there is no definitive answer on it but vegetarianism is definitely supported. When Adam and Eve are first created they are supplied with fruits and grains which is "all you will ever need". It is only until the flood when man is permitted to eat meat and that is because the world is red in tooth and claw (it has been tainted by violence). The ideal would seem to remain vegetarian. Plus when you think about jesus, what would he have thought about all the suffering that animals endure just for man's gluttany. To answer your question, for me it is a personal preference as i consider it cruel and unnecessary, christian or not

Answer 4

It is a matter of choice....I just don't feel happy eating anything that once had a face and enjoyed the sun on its back. When I used to eat meat I found that with each mouthful I was apologising in my head to the beautiful creature that had once breathed and had been slaughtered merely to gratify the hunger of humans - I wouldn't dream of eating a dog, so what's so different about eating a lamb or cow or pig or fish or chicken? Each of these creatures had a life and just because they were 'bred' as food doesn't make it right to eat them.

Answer 5

well Quite Frankly if You look into the bible you will see between chapter 1 and chapter 5 the Answer that makes the most sence to me. Before the flood with noah there was no need for eating of meat as there was vegitation available. But once all the plant life had been destroyed by flooding then there had to be food and it was provided by some of the animals that had reproduced while on the ARK. So I would say it is your decision and feelings that dictate what you do as the bible never says we aren't to eat it and then again it never directly tells us to do it either. So ......

Answer 6

Someone above said 'Don't Think Too Much' Well, that is exactly the problem with the world, especially this country. Don't think about anything, right? Pathetic! It is only your responsibility as a citizen of the planet to question things. Maybe he shoud just leave the thinking to other anyway, apparently.

Our canine teeth need to be compared to that of a lion or bear or some type of CARNIVORE, don't use that excuse. Why does it taste good? The same reason drunks like booze and tobacco and heroin feel good, perhaps? Why can you say something is a good idea just because it taste good and makes you feel good, that is a giant pitfall of society.

Putting animal before humans? I'm trying to think of a helpless animal that had the malice to rape, pilage, murder for spite or cause war like that of a human. And if you think veganism has nothing to do with HUMAN welfare, did you know we could feed the entire starving world with the grain we stuff domestic farm animals chalked full of every year?
Cheeseburgers being good for you? Ha, I will check back with you in 30 years and see how your colon is looking, McDonald's lover.
Very cute, to only eat cows who eat grass, which LA LA planet are you on, cause you haven't consumed a cow that was able to eat grass let alone walk because of all the anti biotics given to her to make her shrek sized from your comsumption. You aren't eating grass, You are eating fear, anxiety and antibiotics.

No one clawed themself to the top of anything. A bear or whale or lion would kill you in two seconds if it needed to, and you could simply bat at it with you cushy, flesh palms. Don't cry, but your domestic house cat will eat the skin of your flesh when you are dead and they are hungry. Top of what now you say?

Isn't it ironic vegans/vegetarians can survive without meat? And is someone serious using the bible as a moral reference?
I respect meat eaters for choosing their own lifestyle and path in life and expect the same in return.

http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming


Clearly, to answer your question, I do it out of morals.

Answer 7

The human digestive system is not really made to digest meat, humans got used to eating meat out of necessity, climate change, migration, etc., not as a matter of nature. So there is the health aspect.

Personally I have a problem not so much with eating an animal, I just have a problem with the way we treat animals BEFORE we eat it. I.e., if a cow is running lose on a pasture, gets to breathe some fresh air, eat some grass and do things that cows normally do and then you kill it (humanely) and eat it, that's just nature. But if you keep a cow indoors, restrained, hooked up to machinery, injected, poked and prodded, eats, urinates and defecates in the same place, year after year, then is herded off to someplace where it's slaughtered, that's just cruel.

Eating meat foe example is also not very practical from a food availability point of view, it take 8 lbs of grain to produce 1 lb of meat, cows and other animals are on top of the food chain. You could not possibly feed all the people on the planet on meat, but you could feed them all with grains.

As we increasingly use crops for bio-fuels the price of meat and dairy products and all products that come from animals that are fed grains is going to go through the roof, this is already happening with milk and other dairy products, because for farmers it is more profitable to plant and sell plants for bio-fuel than it is for feed.

Answer 8

People can call themselves vegetarian for any reason as long as they do not stray from the definition.

Veganism is a moral stance which encompasses far more than what goes in your mouth.

http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan
http://meat.org

Answer 9

It can be either or both a preference and a moral stance.

Answer 10

I'm not a veggie or anything but when you REALLY consider the practice of eating animals,it is quite a revolting concept isn't it?
I mean,animals are kind of like us(anatomically at least),you wouldn't break into a funeral home or mortuary and tuck in would you?
It's not as ridiculous as it sounds,is it