Arent you getting sick of people telling other people that eating meat is wrong?

Question

Sure you can voice your opinion about meat eaters but when you start telling people there cold-blooded murderers for it then thats when its a bit OTT.

What do you all think?

FYI, I'm not trying to insult anyone I'm just asking a question that needs to be answered =]

Paul, I agree! Except for the killing meat part - I just eat em'!

No animal meat - stupid answer don't you think?

I am a fully fleged - OMINIVORE!

I eat meat and veggies.

Answer 1

Yes! I don't go round telling vegetarians to eat meat so why do they have to force their point of view down my throat? Everybody has the right to choose what they want and don't want to eat - just let them be.

Answer 2

The argument has always been that we meat eaters should only eat what we are prepared to kill ourselves.
They say we don't see the meat on a supermarket shelf as once a living breathing animal and to an extent that is true.

There will be a fair chunk of the population that wouldn't kill a chicken, or put a bolt gun to the head of a cow but i don't think that has little relevance to the fact we are happy to eat it.
We know that steak was once a cow, even my 10 year old daughter knows that and she's happy to eat it.

Personally i wouldn't have too much of a problem killing what i eat, we evolved as carnivours, it's how we became the species we did, why our digestive system works the way it does and if these people want to rant on about it then let them.

I see the world from a priorities point of view, i think all the do-gooders of this world should too in that we should deal with the most pressing. important, life threatening things in this world first.

Hundreds of thousands of adults and children die on this planet every year from famine, disease, etc, so shouldn't that be the focus of their life rather than worrying about me and you eating a Big Mac?

Answer 3

I will eat fish, raw or cooked but no poultry, beef, pork or any other warm blooded mammal for the last couple years and just 3 days ago unintentionally ate a turkey burger when I was told it was a veggie burger and have had cramps, bloating, diarrhea and pain ever since! It won't leave my body! Going on a clear liquid diet until my symptoms dissipate! I'm learning that my body doesn't produce the enzymes required to digest meat so it's working overtime to handle the single patty I ate! Please do your research and what you might find is that the humans are not designed to consume the amount of meat the American culture conditions us to eat! Best of luck!

Answer 4

I've killed animals, slaughtered them, and eaten them. Personally I could care less what a veggie thinks, or anyone else for that matter. I like hunting (not with dogs and horses) on foot with a rifle or a bow. It's liberating! I am quite proud of the fact that I can survive without a grocery store. I could have just about any veggie eating meat within a week, in the bush. Most veggies don't even know what is safe to eat in the bush when you can't find an animal. You won't survive on bark, or bark soup.

Answer 5

I don't have a problem with people eating meat. It disgusts me but it's their choice and no one elses. However it is extremely offensive when they come into the vegetarian and vegan forum trying to justify eating meat. This forum is meant for those who are vegan or vegetarian or those interested in a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle not for people to come into the forum and bash another persons way of life. If they ask what's wrong with meat they should expect no less than a factual answer. I doubt anyone will sugar coat if for them.

Answer 6

I feel that preaching about not eating meat kinda turns people off. Thats why I don't do it.
On the other hand, if people read the news and know whats going on with factory farming, Mad Cow disease, E Coli, growth hormones, antibiotics in meat ,etc. They can make an educated dicision on whether or not eating meat is safe or not . Its not for me to judge.

Answer 7

Definatlely. Nature has equipped me with the dentition and digestive system designed for an omnivore, and it works very well.

Having said that, I like to eat veggie at least one day a week, often two days to help out the mineral and roughage intake. And I only have a big juicy steak every three months or so (expensive).

I think those who think that meat eating is murder live in cloud-cuckoo land because they obviously don't appreciate how nature works; or what would happen to their precious vegeatble plots if all cattle and sheep etc were destroyed.

Answer 8

I most definitely am sick of these people trying to force their opinions on those of us who do enjoy meat.
We are designed to be carnivores and have been eating meat since man came onto this earth.
We have a neighbour who is obsessed with vegetarianism and constantly make comments to us and the kids about being killers of defenceless animals and,at times the kids get quite upset which in turn makes me mad.
I have no objection to those people who would rather eat vegetables and other things they like and do not go out of my way to make stupid comments or,force my opinions on someone else.
Most of these people started off eating meat in the first place anyway also,these same people will happily eat fish and sometimes chicken so,what going on with them after all its all meat of some kind.
I was in the Falklands with no vegetables,I wonder what all those"veggies"would have eaten.
Sorry I was going on a rant then so I have to stop myself.

Answer 9

I think eating/not eating meat is a personal opinion. I'm a vegetarian, but wouldn't condemn anyone else for their dietary choices. It's none of my business.

Although I got into an argument a few weeks ago because a friend of a friend said that vegetarians were fine, but vegans were 'attention-seeking'. People like that drive me mad.

Answer 10

I think that saying eating meat is wrong and cruel and all the rest of it is the most serious lack of foresight I can imagine.

It's one thing not to actually like the taste of meat, okay. People are different with regard to what they like to eat, fair enough.

But saying that it's wrong to kill animals to eat .... what they are forgetting is that we BREED animals for food. If all humans stopped eating meat and replaced it with a vegetarian diet in order to save the animals, we would in fact be in competition with other herbivores: cows, horses, sheeps, antelope, deer, etc. As the stronger species, we would dominate. This would mean that we would kill off the competition slowly - which would mean allowing the lovely animals to DIE OUT. Is this what you want? I don't think so.

They exist because we eat them. Simple as that.

No. I have a problem with battery farming. I think that shutting animals up in a limited and limiting space and force-feeding them hormones and other rubbish and making them live in their own excrement is inherently evil and should be stopped.

I grew up eating beef that had lived very happily in well-maintained fields of lush grass, with plenty of room to move around. This is how animals should live, according to nature.

And let me add this: like everything else we take into our bodies, eating meat should be done in moderation. You don't need it for every meal, you don't even need it every day. Overindulging on anything is unhealthy. Moderation is the name of the game.