Do vegetarians have a problem with carnivores such as cats, bears, and others?

Question

I am just wondering if you thought it was okay if these animals ate meat.

Answer 1

No, vegetarians only have a problem with humans who eat meat.They are mostly stupid liberals who want to make normal people feel guilty, for having a normal diet.

Answer 2

Obligate carnivores such as cats really don't have a choice. Also, wild carnivores actually keep their prey populations healthy-- often, the animals eaten are ill, injured or have some genetic infirmity that would weaken the species if it were passed to the next generation. This is the *opposite* of what hunters--who also claim to be helping their target species-- do, as they typically shoot for the biggest, healthiest "trophy" animal. If "culling" is doing the species a favor, wouldn't it be better to cull the defective members instead of the ones who *should* be passing their genes along?
Also, a prey animal typically experiences a relatively brief period of fear & pain after a life of freedom and becomes part of the *natural* food chain to meet the needs of another creature. An animal raised to be eaten usually lives a short & miserable life of confinement & an unnatural diet before being slaughtered assembly-line style & processed beyond recognition.

Answer 3

Honestly? Yes. I think a live being who has had feelings of love, memories, children, parents, siblings, should not just be wiped out by some hungry carnivore who destroys in one attack what took years to shape.

That said, I do understand that multiplying animals will overrun the planet if their numbers are not restrained, and carnivores do what they do because it's instinctive and there is a balance in nature and all that. Some things have been in motion and will continue to be that way.

Humans are a different bag altogether. The same thinking that put us at this evolutionary advantage is also making us appreciate and wonder about nature. I don't feel like I should join the carnivores in ending life that I can relate to, and I don't think I have that kind of need to survive either.

Neither vegetarian nor omnivore is going "back to nature" (try it without guns or weapons, if there are hunters who believe they are so in touch with nature) so I don't buy excuses that we eat meat because other animals do or whatever. The truth is, meat entered human society based on taste and all the higher reasons to justify its further consumption are superflous.

I feel that I don't need to jump into the cycle and wipe out life that has feelings and emotions that I can relate to. For those who can't understand, if you get grossed out at the sight of a human body part in your food, that's how I feel about any slaughtered animal part in my food.

That's just me.

Answer 4

I don't have a problem with wild animals eating other animals. They can best get the nutrients they need by eating meat, and anyway, that's what they evolved to do. Who am I to force my convictions on someone who really HAS to eat other animals?
I have a dog, and he is vegan along with me. I make sure his health is taken care of, and he's very energetic and happy. I chose to feed him a plant-based diet because I researched how to best take care of him, and consulted his vet. There are no problems. If he did need to eat meat-based dog food, I would have fed him meat-based dog food.
I make no distinction between humans and animals, other than our ability to make conscious ethical decisions. Ethically, we all should know that there is something wrong with enslaving animals and then killing them solely for our pleasure or comfort. Cats do not keep chickens in factory farms. Bears (they're omnivores, you know they love berries) do not force-feed geese food until their livers explode. Dogs do not take large boats out into the water and capture lobsters so they can boil them alive. Snakes don't make circus animals perform unnatural stunts that break their bodies and spirits.

Answer 5

I actually dont have an issue with animals eating meat but I personally think their are so many tasty meals without meat that as a rational intelligent human being would I really want to eat it?

Also lots of people dont eat meat for many reasons and one of them is health reasons. There are numerous health benifits for not eating meat. Meat is the only product that will increase your cholestral.

Saving animals for me is a bonus. I like the fact that after a meal even a vegan meal I can say no animal was harmed in feeding me but thats not for everybody.

I get curious why convicted meat eaters would really wnat to eat meat sometimes 4-5 yimes a day. Dont they know it will make you sick?

Answer 6

sure it's ok if they eat meat. My 3 cats all have meat based food, I'm pretty sure that they would die without it. Also, both my dogs have meat based food. I try to make sure it's lamb so that they live longer and their food is very expensive. But I want them to live a long time, so I make it as healthy as I can for them and that involves meat. I have no quams with it at all. I am a vegetarian, so I just don't eat their food.

Answer 7

Of course not. Humans are obnivores. Alot of people try to argue that it is unnatural to eat only plant matter as our anscestors had a diet primarily of meat. What you need to take into account is that the average man's lifespan was very, very short, and their diet was one of the reasons why.

We can make the choice to better or diet, our lives, and our environment. A bear shouldn't have to give up salmon because they're spewing an immense amount of methane and carbon dioxide in the air.

Answer 8

Cats are hyper carnivores they can only take milk, water, and meat (Which acts as a substitute for water in some cases.)

There is no problem with these animals eating meat as it is natural. Bears do not eat only meat though, they mainly forage.
But the thing is, humans were made to eat meat as a last resort. The canines only stayed because, in times of extreme famine, those most capablke of eating meat AND other foods lived.

We now have the choice, whereas animals do not.

People always say humans are morally superior to animals.

Prove it by not killing them.

Answer 9

Cats Bears and Others are biologically equipped to Digest meat.. Why have a problem with them? People however are not design to digest meat.. So that is a mistake..

Answer 10

Of course, Nature dictates their place in the food chain and it is the way it's supposed to be.

Answer 11

Yeah! I never thought about that! Vegans are the only ones I know of that don't discriminate!!