If people refuse to eat meat because of cruelty to animals......?

Question

why dont they just eat free range animals that werent kept in cages and stuff?

Answer 1

Because they believe killing the animal for food is wrong. It's their choice.

erin---you don't get a vote and besides, only 10% or so of drusilla's post is relevant to the question asked.

tart--"Unless you can actually visit the farm and see the animals, you don't know how they're being treated."----Unless you can actually visit the farm and see the crops, you don't know what they're fertilized with. Oh, I forgot, that doesn't count.

Answer 2

The answer to that is not quite as simple as it sounds.

First of all, not all vegetarians are so because of cruelty. Many are vegetarians or vegans because of the benefits to their health or the environment. Also, many people believe that an animal being killed for food is inherently cruel, no matter how nice their life might have been up to that point.

Then, there is always the lingering doubts about just how "free range" these operations really are. Statements such as "free range" and "cage free" are largely unregulated.

Also, there are many people who believe that the consumption of meat and dairy (even if it weren't cruelly obtained) is simply unnatural and shouldn't be done in any case.

Answer 3

End of the day animals are only farmed because we as a race eat animals! they are only there because we need them for food. Does anyone think there would be so many cows and chickens if we didn't like to eat them?

If you look at 3rd world countries, they all eat meat that they have killed for themselves, the point is we don't have to hunt the animals as we grow them for that purpose and leave it to someone else to prepare. It may well be cruel to the animal but its not going to change while the demand is there.

It just pisses me off when veggies make out that meat eaters are being cruel.. get off your high horses!!

Vegans what the f***k is that all about, mind boggling!!

Bacon sandwich anyone?

Answer 4

That isn't the only reason...There is a little more to it than that, hun.....

Even the free range animals have the hormones and drugs in them. When you consume an animal that was given growth hormones and antibiotics right before it died, you are ingesting all these chemicals - which cause many health problems... Many vegans refuse to eat meat because of these health reason, as well as the treatment of factory farm animals.

A good book to read for information on this, that isn't dry and boring, is skinny b*tch.. You can find it at any book store. It is a good and informative read.

UPDATE:

drusillaslittleboot - Good answer! You have my vote for best answer!

Answer 5

I'm not even vegetarian, but in fairness to the question, "free range" is a marketing gimmick and carries no actual minimums to establish just what "free range" really is. For example, chickens raised in a regular chicken coop that has a door to an outside fenced area are "free range" whether or not the chickens ever actually go outside.

Answer 6

I always have a bit of an issue with people that say, "We were designed to eat animals!" without reading one scientific paper or holding any sort of evolutionary biology degree.

First off, your dentition is closest to a frugivore's. A fruit eater. There is a reduction in dentition, including the canines typical of meat eating species. (Jolly, 1998; Dudley 2004)

Second, our closest relatives - chimpanzees and bonobos - tend to get their 'meat protein' mostly from insects, and the vast majority of their food comes from plant and nut materials. Not cows. Not chickens. Insects. You want to eat what you were designed for? Go out and find an anthill and have a feast.

Occasionally, chimps hunt in groups. The Tai forest chimps hunt for small colobus monkeys, and some Chimp groups attack and kill small human children and babies. They hunt in the leanest months of the year, when plant food is difficult to find (Stanford, 2000). However, that's not conclusive, either, since Ugandan officials and the Goodall institute have noted that hunting behaviour seems to increase as humans encroach on land used by chimps, and as hunters have gone after chimpanzees.

Additionally, humans are not designed to eat animals that have been domesticated to be thick with fat. We are not designed to eat animals injected with hormones. We are not designed to eat meat twice daily. If anything, humans may have evolved to eat the leftover carcasses big cats left around the forest (Marean 1989).

As for why I don't eat free range food?

It's impossible to tell how free range it is. I don't want to eat artificial and unhealthy food. I can do my bit for the environment by avoiding meat. I spend less money. I cook more unusual foods. I don't like the idea of something dying for no logical reason.

Answer 7

Because free-range is just a bunch of greenwashing. Unless you can actually visit the farm and see the animals, you don't know how they're being treated.

Because no matter how good their lives are, they're still trucked long distances and still slaughtered--and there's absolutely no way to "humanely" kill anyone.

Answer 8

Is it less cruel to kill a free range animal?

Answer 9

because killing an animal is killing an animal regardless if the are free range or not

Answer 10

Why would I want to eat an animal?

The only reason to eat animals is that you think they taste good.

Sounds a bit selfish.

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