Can I be against animal cruelity and still eat meat, in your opinion?

Answer 1

I think you can be against animal cruelty and still eat animals that are specifically treated cruelly thanks to cognitive dissonance.

Our brain fixes the patches in our thoughts and beliefs that do not make sense so that we can continue to function.

One such way is by mentally creating categories in your brain for "food" animals and "love" animals. Your mind rationalized that you are "supposed" to eat one and that they are "meant" to be killed.

Your mind then decides that the other is "supposed" to be loved and protected.

So yes, people who participate in animals cruelty by eating meat can still be mentally against it. Any person who does so will then mentally "fix" that previous sentence by deciding "I don't participate in animal cruelty. Someone else kills the animal, and if I didn't eat it, the animal will die anywyay."

Thus, meat eaters never have to come to terms with participating in a lifestyle they believe they are against.
The brain is a magnificent thing.
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Answer 2

Well, you'd be against SOME forms of animal cruelty, but certainly not all. Someone can be against fur and animal testing, but still eat meat. I was against veal long before I went vegetarian; it's part of why I stopped eating dairy a few months after going veg.

So you can have someone who is against killing just for skin and harming little bunnies for cosmetics, but that person still eats meat. Didn't someone say "cognitive dissonance"? The ultimate cruelty is the meat, dairy, and egg industries, and animals abused for food comprise the vast majority of animal exploitation. There is no way to humanely kill anyone.

Answer 3

specific i admire a stable stake or meat. I additionally think of cows are kinda wonderful. the component is they seem to be a stable source of protean and different meals our bodies prefer as a fashion to function. i think of fish are extraordinarily and relaxing to observe yet I nonetheless consume them. i do no longer think all people could desire to make an animal go through or abuse an animal. i think of as long via fact the animals are taken care of nicely and killed is a secure, quickly way the place they won't go through, i'm focused on stable meat! I do to 3 degree prefer human beings had to seek and kill and fasten the animals that they are ingesting. it would provide them extra effective appreciate for them and nature ordinarily. I Hunt Doves and that i continually sparkling, and prepare them. Then consume them to. now human beings pass to KFC, McDonalds, or the food market and purely purchase what we prefer or prefer. My great grandfather might each and every 3 hundred and sixty 5 days in October or November kill pigs and sparkling them so there may be meat on the table for the duration of the chilly iciness. Chickens necks have been rung and them boiled so as that the feathers must be pulled out extra handy, and arranged for cooking. i are conscious of it ought to sound unusual yet people who hunt and fish in many cases have plenty extra appreciate for animals and nature than the human beings of communities like PETA and different businesses. I hate people who mistreat animals or kill them just to do some thing, that’s no longer awesome. however the a number of very suitable meat I even have ever had became Elk. It became gentle, and had an astonishing style to it. With some carrots and potatoes and a few onion it became an relatively stable meal. And if I ought to declare so extra appropriate for you than many of the beef you presently get from the grocery.

Answer 4

This was basically the way I was in high school. I was always very upset whenever I heard about any sort of animal abuse and did whatever I could to raise awareness.

For some reason, at the time, I just didn't see a connection between the animals I was trying to save and the animals my dollars were killing. Once I educated myself a little bit, I recognized the hypocrisy and went vegetarian then vegan.

So, the answer to your question is yes, but it is inherently hypocritical.

Answer 5

No, you can't. Eating meat isn't just a passive thing. By doing so, you are taking part in the same thing you claim you are against. You are paying for animals to be abused. So how can you then say you are against it?

Turning vegetarian isn't so hard, why not give it a go? You'll probably feel a lot happier and in harmony with your convictions.

Answer 6

In my opinion you can, but it would be the same as being against anything else and supporting it at the same time... kind of redundant if you ask me.

What's the point in being against abortion if you have them yourself? What's the point in being against world hudger while taking food away from the poor? What's the point in calling yourself a hindu/christian/buddhist/muslim if you don't know anything about your religion and don't follow any of it's teachings?

So I think you can be against animal cruelty while eating meat but there wouldn't be much point to your reasoning.

Answer 7

Most people claim to be against animal cruelty. The vast majority of those don't care enough to do anything about it. I would guess that you're one of them. Giving up meat is a big sacrifice, and I understand that it is unlikely that people will become vegetarian or vegan. You have to do what you feel is best for you and your conscience.

Answer 8

It's kind of an oxymoron, but I guess it would also depend what kind of animal cruelty you're talking about. For ex: I am against domestic animal cruelty...... what they do to cows in slaughterhouses and whatnot really doesn't bother me. Then again, I don't really care for cows!

Answer 9

No, death could be considered the untimate cruelty.

Also, if you eat commercially reared meat you are paying for a process that is full of aspects of cruelty.

No, defiantely not. Eating meat is supporting cruetly.

Eating meat is unnecessary so why do it if you are "against cruelty". Its such an easy food to give up.

The first answer misses the point. You NEED to breath, you don't NEED to eat meat.

Answer 10

it doesn't make sense. think about it. unless you're 3 years old and don't know what is right from wrong, and it makes sense to you. very hypocritical of you.
it's no brainer. that's like saying "can I be against abortion and still get pregnant and abort the baby, in your opinion?".