We all know cows and pigs are animal that have feelings, is eating their meat a good or bad thing?

Question

Does it go against virtue to eat meat?

Answer 1

I must approach your queston with care, since I am a born vegetarian, and must avoid bias.

Biologically, it seems that humans are not designed to eat meat: given the structure of their teeth, length of intestine, and the like.

Temparmentally humans are not supposed to eat meat, as humans are supposed not to be violent by nature. Man wins bread not through violence, but through the operation of his intellect. Here, one can make the distinction between vegetarian animals and non vegetarian animals (Elephant, cow, and simple cat on the other side) to see their temperment differences.

According to the Vedas, eating of Satvika food keep the mind cool for man to contemplate, think and grow. Perhaps one may not find vegetarians among the terrorists.

How ever, food is a matter of conditioning, and if one is conditioned to eat non veg, he is actually helpless in finding it tasty. Food also depends on what is available for one from nature, in his immediate vicinity.

Overall, being vegetarian is what is desirable, and for a born vegetarian, non vegetarian smell even is most repelling, and such is the food conditioning programme with man.

Finally this ethical question: What right do we have to kill to eat, when there are other things to eat?

Answer 2

Eating meat is part of the natural order of things since carnivore and omnivore animals do it in the wild.So your question really should be :Is behaving naturally against virtue?To this question my answer is definitely "YES".We are not virtuous enough and nature does not provide us with a good example.Using genetic engineering we could probably get nutritious food without hurting anybodies feelings.Predatory beasts should be confined to zoo's and fed only soy and cereals.
Since cows and pigs have feelings,they must be provided with psychological counseling to help them cope with the difficult moments in their life.I'm sure you would be a good cow and pig counselor because you care.

Answer 3

as in should we all be vegetarians instead of eating creatures cause they have feelings? No matter what anybody does cows and pigs will always be slaughtered and eaten....Humans are omnivores, they eat plants AND meat...and if people decide to become vegetarian cause they think we're being cruel then they're wasting meat of animals killed so that WE can eat them, as in they were killed for nothing.(no offense to vegetarians).its the way of life....since the dawn of man kind meat has always been on the menu..and i am a full blown meat eater i love chicken fried steak, ribs, pork,chicken, anything that's called meat I'll eat... I do NOT think that it goes against virtue to eat meat.

Answer 4

We eat many things. Plants are living things too. But you must understand that we are a part of the ''food cycle'. It goes like this. Imagine you are an animal that can eat only rats. What would happen if you die ??? there would be soooooo many rats on the surface of this earth that it would kill all the other animals, and ..what do rats eat....whatever it eats would become EXTINCT. That is how the food cycle works. the earth worm eats dirt, then the little hen on the farm eats teh earthworm, then the hen, something superior to the animal clan eats...and it goes on and on and on....

so........they have feelings..but nothing can defy the laws of nature...if u may notice...and if u really have observed...every stupid science fiction movie....where...everythiing is done to ''defy'' nature always fails..it fails nothing in history has shown that doing otherwise has been a good thing....

good luck


arya

Answer 5

It is a good thing and a bad thing. Meat is one of the most important nutritious food man eats. Meat is very rich in protein. We all know for a fact that balance diet requires protein in our body. Too much is a bad thing for it is not good in the body. I know there are Religions who don't practice eating cow's or pig's meat. I have high regards to wht they believe in. It is really a matter of choice and belief.

If it is morally bad then it is against one's virtue.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 6

Love animals, don't eat meat. So yes, it's against my virtue to eat pigs and cows!

BTW, if you love yourself you wouldn't eat meat as animal farming attributes to global warming. And we don't need that much protein unlike what most people think. You can get enough from plant sources.

Answer 7

"Virtue is that which one uses to gain or to keep something of value."*
Animals have feelings and when one of them is freightened at slaughter it taints the flavor of the meat with its adrenelin. Slaughter houses know this and have methods to keep from scaring the animals. If they are not scared, then they do not know what is to befall them. It is a virtue to kill humanely. And the reason Japanese children after WWII grew so much taller than their parents is because they learned to eat more meat like the Americans. I see nothing bad in eating meat, if you keep your "system" clean.

Answer 8

Dog meat is particularly terrible to think about, but I ate or watched relatives eat much worse food when I spent summers out in the country in Mississippi. I.E. Opposum, Raccoon, chicken feet, chicken gizzards, chicken hearts, deer, rabbit (looks just like roadkill), snake, eel, etc. And that list only combines the meats not some of the other culinary horrors. One mans dog is another mans???? P.S. There are some dog eaters who believe that canines with dark hair taste better.

Answer 9

One might ask why does a cow give a boundful amount of
milk for us to enjoy. I like the way the American Indian honered their kill for food after a hunt for food.
What turns me off as I eat meat now of time, is the thought of the process, as well how they are now fed. As to the good/bad like all else, Too much of a good thing isn't
necessarly a good thing.

Answer 10

It is never bad to eat animal meat in general and i think virtue has nothing to do with it.Lets not try to complicate things.