Are all animal rights activists vegetarians?

Answer 1

No. I love animals and I love eating them. I guess I'm a hypocrite. Then again, lately, I've lost my appetite for meat and don't eat it. Not since I made friends with a cute old cow that lives in a field nearby. I just can't stomach eating meat anymore. I don't know if that makes me an animal activist or a cow's pal . . .

Answer 2

I'm not. I'm not an animal rights activist in the sense that I protest or belong to an organization that protects animal rights. I am just very outspoken about the humane treatment of animals - all animals and I act upon my beliefs. I eat meat, but not that often. It isn't that I am opposed to it, it is that I simply don't crave it, and when I do, I eat just a little. I will eat chicken, pork and beef, as well as shrimp and some fish such as tuna, salmon (sometimes) and haddock and orange roughy. I refuse to eat lobster because any animal that is boiled alive in order to kill it and cook it at the same time, is just not food I want to eat. I refuse to eat veal. I refuse to eat baby animals (hence, young tom turkeys).

I believe that all animals have the right to be treated humanely. They do not have a voice to speak for themselves, but they share this planet with us. Just because we have dominion over them does not give us the right to mistreat them. Eating them for food is fine if the killing is done humanely. If a dog bites a human, the dog gets put to sleep. If a human abuses a dog, the human MIGHT get a fine or do jail time if the ASPCA gets involved, but if they don't, then the person gets off free. Not fair. An animal pays with its life if it attacks a human, even if the human encroached on the animal's territory in the wild, yet a human can do all sorts of unspeakable things to an animal and get away with it, including excruciatingly painful and horrible lab experiments on innocent animals who have no means of escape. Shameful.

No, I am not a vegetarian. I don't eat a lot of meat, and I don't eat all types. I am outspoken about animal rights but am not an activist.

Answer 3

Most people don't realize that animal rights groups are actually on the radical end of the spectrum of how animals should be treated. They believe that animals have inherent rights comparable to humans. They work to not only attain humane treatment for animals but argue that animals should not be treated as property or treated as resources. This means they believe animals should not be kept as pets, used as labor, or eaten. Of course, organizations such as Peta don't advertize this extreme stance. Treating an animal as a resource would mean using them for food, so if someone says they are an animal rights activist, by definition they should be a vegetarian.

Answer 4

Even if they're vegetarians it's a problem. If they are animal rights activists, they are animal lovers and very likely they have dogs. Dogs eat meat. Their furry friends don't care about animal rights.

Answer 5

Nope.

God, whether by design or the allowance of the freedom of evolution has got Himself a species that's biologically geared for obtaining nutrients from the widest possible variety of foodstuffs, including some nutrients which are only available through the consumption of flesh meat.

Genesis says that we were given dominion over the earth and ALL the things thereof. Cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, fish, shellfish are all included in that gift.

The trick is to be aware of the difference between "dominion" and "domination". The former is to behave toward creation as God would, with love and nurturing care for each being.
The latter is to follow Satan's path, ie, power exercised without regard for anything or anyone but self.

I'm into "dominion". And good roast beef!

Answer 6

Yes. EVERY single animal rights activist is a vegetarian...every last one. It's in the animal rights creed. EVERY one of em. Yep. The answer is yes. Yes I tell ya, YES! Animal rights activists=vegetarians. Every last one of them.

Answer 7

No, for instance, PETA has many other causes. Some of these include stopping animals form being used at fairs, keeping hermit crabs in the wild, not wearing leather or animal products, and buying cruelty-free products. You don't have to be a vegetarian to appreciate these causes.

Answer 8

No they are not, which of course makes them hypocrites.
And most, if not all, vegetarians use other animal products.

My favorites, though, are the anti- hunting people that still eat meat. Apparently, it's ok to eat it as long as it was bludgeoned to death by somebody else.....

Answer 9

No, they're psychotic. There's no such thing as 'animal rights'. Rights only apply to humans because we use reason and logic for survival. Animals survive on instinct therefore do not need rights in order to stabalize a moral society.

Answer 10

NOPE. Both my husband and I are 'animal rights activists' and we are both 'omnivores' who LOVE good steak and good fish, good pork and good chicken. The difference is that we think that even the 'food animals' we enjoy consuming deserve a 'better life' than being 'factory raised and killed' ... we will not TOUCH that meat/fish.