If humans were meant to eat meat?

Question

isn't it a shame they couldn't design a meat industry capable of making use of it

....a quarter of a million perfectly healthy lambs to be incinerated, or used as bio-diesel......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7035225.stm

Starve them to death, or incinerate them...what a shameful world we live in.

My question being......what part of "the meat industry treats animals well" is this ?

"Miss TT"'s answer suggests a similar attitude adn hardly presnts any sensible answer.

Bare in mind that this entire episode is only due to political decisions. There is no conceivable chance of Sheep movement in Scotland spreading an outbreak of foot and mouth in Surrey.

The system is just saying " these animals are worthless"

A top contributor in "Fashion and Accessories".....I didn't really need to check that, did i - i could have guessed.

"it wasn't always like this".....thats exactly the point, meat eaters need to take responsiblity for the CURRENT situation, not winge about people caring for animals.

As for the comment on us "ALL" spending a lot of money of artificial meat-replacement products....that assumption is just so way off mark its bnot really worth argueing with..such a daft, shallow stereotyping. Whats your thinking here...Is it "Fake meat is expensiver and therefore its ok to slaughter 0.25 million sheep for no reason" ??

Jerry, if we "needed" meat then all vegetarians would die, wouldn't they ??

This questino is not about being a predator, or being designed to eat meat. Its about the mis-treatment of animals.

Answer 1

This story made me depressed enough, but then I had to go and read some of the responses to your question...yikes!
There really are some ignorant people out there.

There is no excuse for this kind of thing happening. It always boils down to people, as a whole, being too gluttonous and selfish to do what our hearts and science tells us is "right".

What a waste. Oh, the humanity.

Jerry A: Please stop spewing information that is incorrect and misleading. We can get all the amino acids we need by eating plant food and then our bodies use those amino acids to make your "missing" amino acids. Those amino acids are in animal flesh because their bodies make them from the food they eat and OUR bodies make them from the food we eat. We do not need to consume those amino acids in animal flesh because our bodies MAKE them. And our teeth look nothing like true omnivores. We have two pointy, not sharp, but POINTY teeth to bite through tubers and through the rinds and skins of plant food. We cannot take raw animal flesh, with skin on it and straight off the animal and eat it with these teeth. We can barely even bite through raw meat let alone veins and skin. And can you please think for a second about this "hunter" thing? We don't run very fast, we don't have claws or sharp teeth, we are very vulnerable to attack. Can you imagine trying to take down a cow, even if there were several guys trying to do it? You'd be more likely to end up trambled or gored than you be to actually eat it. We stand upright with all our most important organs just below our soft flesh. Do you know how eay it would be for something with horns to gut us? Even trying to catch squirrels or rabbits is going to be tough because we're just slow! Do you people think about what you're saying before you spread this kind of nonsense? It doesn't seem like it. Consider what your reaction is when you see furry little animals. Do you start to salivate and have the urge to pounce on it and sink your teeth into it? When you see a cow does it make you hungry? Think about it and be honest with yourself. And for the last time, there is NO evidence that we must eat meat to be healthy. NONE. NADA. ZILCH! Quite the opposite is true. Studies show that meat is more harmful than it is good (it contributes to cancer and heart disease, our biggest killers, and fruits and veggies DO NOT). Sure, we CAN digest meat, but that does not mean that we should or that we are omnivores; we CAN digest cardboard, too. Nature has shown us time and time again that we should not eat animal products. When will some of you people get over your denial and start listening?

Answer 2

Here's the deal, we are omnivores and are meant to meat. But, we were never meant to eat mammal meat. It wasn't until our ancestors discovered tools that we were able to kill and eat other mammals effectively. We are meant to eat fish chicken turkey and such. But all that mammal meat we consume (pigs, cows, goats, ect) is actually slowly changing our DNA into a more carnivorous species. If you look at other carnivorous animals such as lions, wolves, crocodiles even. They have all got the distinctive carnivore teeth obtained from the evolution of eating mammals. So bottom line is, we are inevitably changing the evolution of our species into an aggressive top predator when we are not. The long term consequences of interfering with our DNA will not be good unless something is done soon. Join the fight, spread awareness and stop eating mammal meat today before it is to late. Also fyi, pigs are smarter than dogs.

Answer 3

I have a friend who works for a large distributor of eggs in the U. S. During the Avian Flu scare the company actually put live chickens into a wood chipper because it was the most "humane" way to dispose of them...it was later found that they weren't even infected.
It's shameful and the meat industry's version of treating animals well is laughable.

Answer 4

Right we aren't suppose to eat meat. We are custodians of all creatures. In Genesis it says God says: I have given ye dominion of all the fowls and creatures of land and sea, remember ye art to look after thee. Thou shalt not partake of animal or any living creature for I have given ye every herb and fruit bearing seed to be thy meat! (meat eaters tend to ignore that passage.). Those that say animals are treated well never saw the inside of a slaughter house I bet! I've been on some farms where cows were crowded in stalls. They were pumped to produce more milk. I saw pigs dropped alive in to hot boiling water.. Once you hear their scream I bet you'd be a vegetarian if you weren't! I became vegetarian before I wound up on a farm. It was the cost of meat that caused me to be a vegetarian. Once around 1980 I went in to a store and discovered weiners were $2.49 for a pkg of 8 and they were the lowest priced brand. At that time I
said at least prices I'm not gonna eat meat anymore! Someone said Goodluck! they heard me! On the other side of the aisle there was pkgs beans, pkg. lentils, canned beans and some one rushing away with a loaded cart! She was either in a hurry or didn't want to see the meat! Becoming vegetarian was one of the smartest moves I ever made!
I know of one small farm where animals were treated ok and were free to run in roomy pens. They were shutdown because of the stink that came from the farm. Not fair is it?

Answer 5

Obviously the meat industry is set up for sending animals to market. I can only imagine the increased cost if they had to try to plan for every single possible contingency, so obviously they weren't quite ready for 250,000 sheep not being allowed to market. From what I read they aren't starving yet, so there's at least an effort started to try to do something now. I guess the alternative would be to let them die of starvation since the fields can't support the population, then go scoop up the bodies. How humane is that? At the end of the day, there is no great answer to this one. 250,000 domesticated sheep on the Scottish countryside is just about as natural as the acreage planted to come up with 572,539,000 bushels of wheat in May 2007 in the US. Would you balk if the wheat crop caught a blight and all had to be destroyed? Isn't a plant a living thing we must kill to eat? Studies suggest that plants have feelings too. We don't see it so it doesn't exist right? That's why we like lethal injection on death row. It's more "humane." It makes us feel better because we don't see the person suffer since we've just paralyzed them before we stop their heart. Doesn't mean the feelings don't exist.

Answer 6

That's awful :[

Humans create these problems, and then we act like we are "all merciful" when we put an animal "out of it's misery". And we created the issue in the first place. They didn't ask to be born... (or killed). Since when did humans get the right to play "gOD"?!?

I'm looking at some of these answers... and thinking, "Can they be serious??"
Especially the one (misst or something) that was making a big fuss... because we care about animals...??
Sometimes I'm amazed that people can think that way...

Answer 7

i love the way meat eaters always say that there are only certain vitamins you get from meat but can never specify. its B12 people, BUT you can actually get that in any animal product (cheese, eggs, etc). and you can get cholesterol from avocados. not to mention there are only 8 amino acids the body can not create & you can still get that but you really have to vary your diet. a meat diet will have them in better proportion than a plant based diet but this is why it is important to vary the veg diet.

all of this is easy enough to do a search on the internet for this information why do we still need to hear that?

Answer 8

Wow. Just wow.

I don't even mean the link. I mean some of the responses to your question. Like Jerry and OMFG "Miss TT" she takes the cake for most ridiculous, childish response! Miss TT, you are a worthless b*tch.

Oh and KLM_78, let's leave out the religious/soul crap, ok? 'Your personal beliefs have nothing to do with anything.

Answer 9

Poor lambs...stupid meat eaters.

Oh yeah, and don't forget idiot Mrs. TT and other answerers who eat so much meat it affects their thinking and makes them idiots. What a shame.

Answer 10

It is true that humans are meant to eat meat, but we take it for granted, our kind kill millions of animals, and breed new ones just to die, this may sound very wrong to most vegans, like myself, but thing should be the way they once were, where man hunted for himself and his familly, because that is the way it is meant to be, and it's true just because your meant to doesn't mean you have to, and there are lots of substitutes for vegitarians. but the substitutes are meant to show that animals are being mistreated, its part of the life cycle for us to kill them, like a tiger kills a Zebra, but vegetarianism is meant as a protest against the inhumane treatement of animals. like how dear are killed because thaere are supposovly too many, but really we are just cuting into they're territory.