For vegans/vegetarians: How do you view people who know...?

Question

who know the cruelties of slaughter houses and know how inhumane they are but choose to eat meat anyway? What do you think about people like that?

alfyakuza: You're not the real alfyakuza, are you? My only friends in person are meat eaters by the way so I know very well what I'm talking about. I still don't even know what to think of some of them, but I agree with the first answerer's response completly.

By the way, I think you need to stop stealing people's IDs.

rome: I think you're the one who needs to be educated. Some of those videos do happen in this country, mind you, not all, but some. Also, videos aren't the only place to get information. There are books out there who quote people who work in slaughter houses in the US, and these books aren't made by PETA

Answer 1

They are just weak-willed, and they have a strong mental block against the realities of what they are eating. Somehow they can live with it.

Answer 2

I think these people, unless they are totally callous, are selectively blind.
While I am blessed with some vegetarian friends, relatives & acquaintences, most persons in my life choose to eat flesh & although they understand how their dinner arrived on their plate, they don't or won't acknowledge that there is anything cruel about it.
I seriously believe that most people who eat meat don't accept the reality that "food" animals are treated so cruelly. I have a family member who has been to slaughterhouses on business & he acknowledged the stench & other grueseome details but he still believes meat-eating is "the law of the jungle" as he says. I tried to explain that in the jungle, most creatures only take what they need, but he didn't want to debate the issue so I didn't push it.
My mom used to assure me that slaughtered animals "never know what hits them" & added that meat was essential for human life. Since she was my mom & I was only a kitten (couldn't even read yet) I believed her.
Don't let anyone tell you that the "food animal" industry isn't cruel in the U.S. Of course the industry's description would be "practical," "cost-effective" or "expedient."

Answer 3

There is no 1 answer to this question. Each person justifies their actions differently, and not just about eating meat but everything. Some I expect don't care about the suffering of animals, others might think that they deserve to be in pain, others might think their purpose for existing is to feed humans, the number of possible justifications potentially imaginable is infinite.
What matters most here is that regardless of which justification people come up with, when they realise their actions are poisoning their only home, Earth, slowly making it inhabitable, all the jutifications in the world will seem insignificant and weak. Their children and grandchildren will be asking them why they didn't act sooner, why they didn't wake up and see the consequences of their actions and stop. We must hear that question from them NOW.

PLEASE RESPECT OUR ONLY HOME!!

Answer 4

I would say that most of the people who know what go on in a slaughter house and still eat meat either don't care about animals in general, or have no problem with a living creature suffering. I could do with out both groups of people.

Answer 5

My best friend is like that. He goes around doing the most STUPID things even though he knows better.

He knows that he should not be eating junk food in general, or feeding his young son the same crap he eats, but he does so anyway. Not only that, but he also knows all about many other things which he chooses to totally ignore. For him, it just makes life easier because he is a lazy a**. I tell him how to fix his inflamed tonsils, for example, and he already knows, but he'd rather just go and get them cut out.

On the other hand, he goes around trying to educate people about politics and other such social issues etc. and thinks that it's very important. It's just the way some people are -- they will be totally close-minded about one part of their life, yet completely dedicated to another part.

For me, the very basics of life are all about air, water, food, clothing, shelter, ... but most people totally skip over the basics because there are more important things to worry about.

Answer 6

I'm a vegetarian, and know very few others. But I think most people that are aware of the atrocities and continue to eat meat are fooling themselves. I think they turn a blind eye to them. It's similar with cosmetics - I recently decided to make an active effort to check were the products I was buying tested on animals and if so, to not buy them. It's unbelievable the amount of stuff I can't buy now; almost everything is animal tested or its ingredients derive from animals. Almost nobody supports animal testing, and almost nobody checks if their stuff is animal tested - it's double standards, I think.

Answer 7

It makes me sad to think people don't care but then I realize that society has become so conditioning into believing that we need meat that these people don't know any better or they don't know what else to do. It leaves them in a state of hopelessness in which they don't have the will power to change for the better. In a way I pity them but I also realize that it's their choice and if they choose to have no will power it's on them.

Answer 8

They just think meat is good and some think of it this way: It's already dead and here I am not doing anything wrong. I have convinced 2 friends to become vegetarians.

Answer 9

i think most dont know ! and often dont wanna know !

personally - i like meat, but i like to know its need well bred... its ok to eat meat, its how it is looked after, animal welfare and that stuff that is the issue for me..

i never buy cheap meat.. if i suspect that restaurants are buying cheap i eat more veggie stuff..

but i do think that the majority would rather progress in ignorance than know and be faced with a choice to make...

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Answer 10

I think they are lying to themselves to be able to do what they want to do. Kinda selfish in my opinion. Sure I don't go around educating people... unless they are asking for it in one form or another... But I think if you have a real understanding and don't do something to stop supporting the problem... well you are the problem. You can even make small changes in your life and help. So I don't get people.

Answer 11

I think they are ignorant,and uninformed.They make me angry.They are unhealthy.They should be informed,thats how I learned.Still,you can't force someone to change.