does meat get stressed?

Question

apparently when animals are slaughtered for meat they get stressed and produce enzymes which go into the meat. When humans then eat the meat they become stressed and angry. therefore vegetarians are less stressed. please could someone send me in the direction of some scientific research confirming this matter.

Answer 1

Stress is a property of the nervous system...

Enzymes released, dissolve during the processing of meat...

Meat which takes days, weeks and months to prepare for your consumption, does not hold any residual effects, from having been butchered...

When the meat on your plate has been elegantly prepared, in a nice sauce, with a glass of fine wine, and candlelight, if anything, partaking of it, will reduce your stress...

Answer 2

I'm vegetarian, I have a little background in anatomy and physiology (degree in health info administration--I took the same A&P that RNs take.)

The body does release hormones/neurotransmitters that naturally make a human or animal anxious or aggressive when threatened. It's built in survival mechanism so we have an urge to run way or fight when faced with a threat.

So, yes, the meat of a slaughtered animal would probably contain some of that due to the fear of being killed.

However, I would be very skeptical of any residual neurotransmitters having a significant effect on the person who eats the meat. It's just seems too improbable. I would love to believe it for the sake of vegetarian "propaganda" but I just can't buy that idea.

Answer 3

Supposedly meat is different in consistency if the animal which it comes from is more stressed for a long time before it's killed than usual, and i don't know what effect it has, but any extra enzymes would be digested like any other protein when someone eats it. There might be more adrenalin in meat which has been stressed, but since the adrenal and other glands can be eaten, it seems very unlikely that this would have any harmful effect. It is natural to eat meat, and if a mammoth had just been chased over a cliff by a horde of people carrying firebrands and stabbing it with spears, it would have gotten extremely stressed out and its tissues would be drenched in adrenalin, so presumably we can cope with eating it.

I've been veggie for most of my rather excessively long life, but i'm not going to pretend for a moment that it's not natural to eat meat. It's bad enough that the animals suffer as much as they do and that we kill them completely needlessly after a lifetime of suffering (in many cases, not all), without coming up with other reasons why it might be a bad thing, because any shaky research would be a hostage to fortune and something which could be used against us in future.

Having said that, i do know someone who has done research into diet and says that food high in MAOIs and oestrogenic substances, by which he means a healthy vegan diet, makes people less aggressive and their mentalities more balanced between the rational and the emotional. If you contact me, i'll try to dig his research out for you.

Answer 4

Part true/Part what?
Yes animals become stressed which transfer into the meats giving them a gamey taste (ex: deer running hard before being shot). I have never ever ever heard of the human consumption part.

Update: I just did a lot of googling and found nada about human stress from the consumption of stressed meats!

Answer 5

There is truth in the stress part about the animal, but I haven't heard about it being passed on to the consumer.

There might be something on this link

For further research try
Stress+meat+people in a search engine.

Answer 6

It has happend to me. I haven't eated meat sice 7th grade and I'm now entering my sophmore year in highschool. I almost gave up being a vegan....I mean, that cheesy pizza looked SO good. But I thought about how much I would be giving up and how much I would never forgive myself. I probably became a vegan for diff. reason's than you, but to answer your question, yes, it is VERY normal. But...next time you do think about eating meat...look at some pics of dead, bloody animals, and realize that if you DO eat that, you will have to live with the discust and regret of eating another living creature :] Good luck fellow vegan!

Answer 7

As an interesting corollary, you should check out the experiments where they attached lie detecter probes to plants and found out that plants will become stressed if you destroy one in their midst.

Responsible living and consuming is great, but it doesn't change the fact that the second word in 'responsible consuming' is 'consuming.'

It's a crazy thought, but the extremes of ethical and responsible living will ultimately lead you to the conclusion people shouldn't have children. Cutting down the population will lead to less consumption, plants and animals alike.

Answer 8

Why would one need scientific research to understand this.

Meditate on this, feel into it, ask your higher self, it is obvious,
when you have realised that, move on that.

The eastern need for having a "consideration given" at the time of taking the life of the beast, should tell you this.
Many old time gardeners will talk to the tree, and allow it to take its lifeforce back into the tree, from the branch that he is about to cut off.

Meat eaters, generally demonstrate more heat in the body, emotional eg. anger physical, stress on the organs eg. heart.

Do not "wait" for scientific research it takes years, and then is used to "sell" you some "pill" to offset the symptoms that manifests in the body.

Science is now looking at the "use" of autumn leaves, as the trees puts the colour into the leaf relative to "the growth spurt needed and has antioxidants aplenty" My intuition tells me to gather autumn leaves and rub them all over the body. Science will make a pill or put in as additive to body lotion and charge $80 a bottle.

Peace

Answer 9

wow I never heard that one before. Pretty cool. I am a vegetarian and I guess I am pretty calm and destressed. Sorry I don't have any direct info.

Answer 10

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