Exactly what is so wrong about eating meat?

Question

Seriously. Thanks for your answers :)

Answer 1

I personally don't think there is anything wrong with eating meat. I do eat it occassionally.

However, several of the problems with meat we have now are...
The way animals are mass produced and slaughtered. They are being kept in inhumane conditions, pumped full of hormones and antibiotics, and many times killed in a cruel fashion. It is suggested that we are seeing an increase of antibiotic resistant diseases and our children reaching puberty at younger ages due to this.
There is the environment factor, as someone mentioned above with the cattle.
I can't speak for the rest of the world, but Americans consume WAY too much meat. There is no need to have a triple cheeseburger...that's more than a daily serving of meat, yet many in this country stuff their faces with that type of fare day in and day out.
Too much or certain meat consumption has been linked to certain health issues....such as processed meats and colon cancer.

If we could go back to having to raise, slaughter, clean, and prepare our own meat....I think it would be much better. Seriously doubt it will happen any time soon though.

Answer 2

I've seen a lot of half educated veggie propaganda about health spewed out here. The truth is that Pescatarians live longest, followed by occasional meat eaters and vegetarians, with vegans and heavy meat eaters living the shortest. The meta studies all concluded that veggies live a bit longer because they tend to have healthier lifestyles and be from a better social class. Not because they don't eat meat.

They never mention that soy protein is carcinogenic do they? It's one of the major causes of bladder cancer, Google it. And they quote that meat raises the chances of this cancer or that disease, without mentioning that it's lower in others.

There are ethnic groups on this planet that eat mostly meat and don't get heart disease or cancer to a major degree. The ethnic group with the highest rate of CHD is the vegetarian Hindus.

Meat won't hurt you. Crappy intensively farmed meat full of steroids and antibiotics, is a fair point.

Answer 3

its best to stop killing and then eating our animal brothers and sisters! A research revealed that no matter how well red meat is refrigerated, the moment the poor animal is killed, its flesh starts to rot. When people eat this rotten meat their body cells can't cope with this and the cells gradually become ill. It shows its neither ideal nor natural to eat meat.
I have heard ranchers say that when you take calves away to the slaughterhouse, the mother cow wouldnt eat or drink for several days. It even cries. But the ranchers only spoke to me in an accusing tone, as it meant loss to them. If the cow wouldnt eat there would be less meat!!
I would finish with some quotes:

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. "
Albert Einstein

"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places!"
Leonerdo Da Vinci

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends"
George Bernard Shaw

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain".
Paul and Linda McCartney

"How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time".
Henry J. Heimlich

"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times".
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Answer 4

To some eating meat is wrong because it is the murder of animals. I hear what the vegetarians are saying but whose to say that plants don't give out a tiny squeal when we kill them for food. I love my vegetables though, not a big fan of red meat.

Answer 5

theonly biblical reuirement to eating meat was then not eating the blood with the animal andsomething that was what we would call today road kill. meaning it was dead by something or someone before.. also in leviticus their were foods that were said to be unclean meaning for the most part these animals were carnivores or were animals that cleaned up the refuse that other animals left..
do i need to be specific when i say refuse,, as in bathroom droppings?
ok ???? but today because of the high risk of disease animals are suffering from it makes it even more dangerous for us to consume their flesh,, . noone needs to believe what i say ok >>?? check with any goverment agency and see if their is any animal today that is not infected with some sort of cnacerous growth?. YES I KNOW TODAY their are sooo many coverups dealing with this so u may not get the right information , i know u are hearing about all the meat recals though somenella posioning and all . one company went out of buisness completely because of this,, . ok all animals have a short intestine so when they eat a meal it is eliminated the same day . humans have a short intestine and a large intestine ,, when we eat meat it can take days to get through the colon thus rotting before it gets eliminated ,
fish in the seas al lhave cancerous sells because of the high mercury that gets dumped into the ocean along with other industrial wastes.. . sorry dont mean to be gross but if u look at what all is done in the slaughter houses to these poor animals they are half crazed before they are slaughtered / i have seen the videos taken , im sure if u looked u could find a few online .. ycch its soooooo gross, and these places that slaughter the animals are so filthy too at times road kill also gets thrown in as well as animals that have been euthanized by animal control , which u will never here about directly !! .. do u actually think their are enough goverment in spectors to look at all that is going on>>??.
ok you take this into consideration and at least slow down your flesh intake and dont eat foods that are scavengers , yes they taste good but they will leave behind a big expence in later years,, .
i know most folks are creatures of habit too . they just are not willing to listen to reason . christians to sadly refuse to listen to instructions thinking they are free ,,
fre from what fre from the cancer u intake when u eat the dead flesh of animals?? oh boy humans sometimes we have to suffer because we be toooooo hard headed to listen ,, believe it,, or not ! bro. muray

Answer 6

I don't think there is anything wrong with it. I know red meat and pork are harder to digest than fish and fowl, but other than that, I don't think it's that bad for you. However, I don't know how humanely the animals are treated before they are killed. That's one reason I try to buy cage free eggs and chicken. At least I know they lived as they were meant to live. I'm sure people will disagree with me, but it's also not logical to keep farm animals as pets. I guess I have this attitude since I grew up in farm country.

Answer 7

G-d made animals for eating. But He also said not to eat certain types of animals, and to not to eat blood. So, there is nothing wrong with it, but It's a personal choice.

Answer 8

For myself it is the way animals are raised and slaughtered that has made me vegetarian. Lots of very horrible abuse goes on to "mass produce" meat. I also don't want to eat something that didn't want to die when I know it isn't necessary for my survival.

Answer 9

What is so wrong about not wanting to eat it?

It's unessecary killing I can avoid.....I can get all my vitamins and minerals from plant sources...very easily too....that's what makes it unnesesary in my eyes at least.

It's unhealthy COMPARED to veggies. Do you understand what I'm saying? Why eat something that contains alot of fat and colesteral when you CAN eat something that contains virtually no fat no not a drop of colesteral?

MANY studies have shown that eating a healthy vegetarian diet LOWERS your NORMAL risk of getting certain cancers..colon cancer... and other ailments..such as high colesteral. If you have an increased risk for those things..eating a vegetarian diet can do wonders for lowering your risk of getting those things.

It is a great way to help out with the environment. Explain........a normal person contributes to CO 2 production by...the energy used to grow the crops to feed the animals(tractor gas..planes or tractor gas to spread the pesticides..and so on)...the energy used to house the animals...the energy used to take the animals to the slauterhouse...the energy used to kill the animals...the energy used to package the meat(don't forget they use all parts of the animal..so many different products have to be packaged in this stage...a pig..pig ears...bacon..ham and so on)...the energy used to transport the meat to the stores. A vegetarian contributes to the energy used to grow the crops.. transport the crops to the warehouse(to be cleaned)..and the energy to package the crops..and the energy used to get the crops to the store. That's alot of energy one saves by eating only veggies. IF you eat locally grown veggies one can cut down on even more of the energy. That's just one of the ways too.

Answer 10

I don't judge anyone for eating meat. I've always had an aversion to it. If I eat meat it has to be burned to a crisp. I really don't like it. I couldn't kill an animal to feed myself. But, that's just me, the way I was born.