Vegetarians why is it wrong to eat meat?!
Answers: Animals naturally hunt and eat other animals so isn't eating meat natural?
Not all vegetarians become vegetarians for the same reason. My daughter and I became vegetarians because of all the crap they add to our meat to make it last longer and to make the animal larger so they can get more from it.
Then it started to be about the poor animals and how they are treated prior to their demise.
for all vegetarians its not that we don't like meat or its for the animals........it also a health choice too
well the point of being a vegitaian is to not eat meat!they think its wrong to eat living things!do u belive in God?well vegitarians belive in not eating living things.
Yes for the animals its natural...they are carnivores. We are not. We don't have the big sharp teeth....we have to cook our meat, animals can eat it raw.
It is also a health choice, and some vegitarians do it because they don't want to harm the animals, because it does hurt the animals.
because they dont believe in harming animals for food.and they think veggies are more good for their bodies.you are what you eat.
its good for you and animals
Yes some animals naturally hunt and kill each other for food, but they do not keep the animals, artificially impregnate them, keep them in tiny cages, abuse them and so on....I feel that it is wrong to do what people are doing to them for humans to get their meat, I do not want to be a part of that. There is a little piece of me that does feel that we aren't even supposed to eat the animals, but who knows what the truth really is.
It is instinctive for some animals to eat meat, which is shown by their physical qualities (fangs, claws, stronger digestive systems, etc) while we as humans posses no qualities that make us excel at hunting. Not only that but we have the ability to live our lives without taking any, so why dont we do it. I personally find it wrong to cause suffering to innocent creatures who can feel pain and have emotions, like us.
the problem nowaday is human not hunt animal anymore, human raised animal from farm where they torture them cruely to get the max product.( do you think it is nature?)
Moreover, did you know that USA is a world largest country grow soy bean and most of the them are used in feeding animal.It takes up to 16 pounds of soybeans and grains to produce 1 lb. of beef and 3 to 6 lbs. to produce 1 lb of turkey & egg. It takes 3 to 15 times as much water to produce animal protein as it does plant protein. While alot of people die from starving and lack of food, there are people use those food and water to feed on animal which after that produce less amount of food than what they consume.... How would you like it.
Animals do it to live.
But humans, we have so many other choices.
We are killing creatures for NO reason.
Its a hunt we dont need.
I am a vegetarian because I think it is wrong to kill an innocent being for the pleasure of others who do not need it.
Plants are living things also. The only difference is that you cannot hear the plant cry out when you kill it to satisfy your hunger.
It's wrong to raise animals to feed humans because you disagree with the way they are raised.
The plants you eat are not farmed natuarlly. How many plants grow in neat little rows evenly spaced, in the wild, raised only to be killed to feed humans?
If you do not water or feed a plant it dies. It dies because it too is a living thing. Plants convert Carbon Dioxide to Oxygen, so, in a sense, by eating plants you are contributing to the Global Warming issue that is slowly killing all of us.
Why is it wrong to eat "meat"?
Other animals which eat other animals, basically have no choice in the matter. Their bodies are designed that way. For instance, they have very short guts, very sharp teeth and sharp claws. It's a body designed to kill, eat uncooked flesh and blood, and for it to pass through very quickly, before the toxins have a chance to take hold. They couldn't survive on eating plant food, even if they tried to.
Humans, by comparison, have very long intestines - which is definitely not conducive to having animal fats pass slowly through (on a quiet night, I can even hear the neighbours' bowel cancers growing and arteries hardening!). We also don't have much in the way of sharp teeth or claws. Try killing a medium-sized animal with just your teeth and fingernails, then tearing it apart, eating it raw, drinking the blood. Appetising picture for you, is it?
Ok, don't fancy killing? How about if someone else kills it for you, so you don't have to worry about the killing bit - as with scavengers like hyenas and vultures? But you still have to somehow tear it apart and try to digest the putrefying flesh. Think about it - if you were meant to eat other animals, physiologically speaking, wouldn't your body be much better designed for the task than it is now?
Sure, our stomachs are not designed the same way as those of cattle, sheep, horses, etc. (though their intestines are long, like ours), so we're obviously not designed to eat just "grass", as such (except for cereal grains like wheat, maize, rye, oats, barley, rice, sorghum, millet, etc.) - we'd need to have functional appendices to cope with all the cellulose, for starters [Biologists: feel free to correct me on that one if it's wrong,]. But, anyway, we don't just eat "grass" - we also eat fruit, vegetables, nuts, leaves, pulses, roots, etc. - and our digestive system is OK with that, because it's designed for that.
OK, to get back to your question, and summarise. Isn't eating "meat" natural? YES, for the animals that naturally hunt and kill, and NO, not for humans. They don't have a choice. We do.
PS. If someone wants to bring in an irrelevant religious argument "But God gave us the animals to eat!" - can I point out that that was only after the Flood. BEFORE the Flood, everyone was vegetarian, and lived for hundreds of years longer than they did AFTER the Flood. Doesn't that tell you something about what eating animals does to your body? (That's about the only bit of logic I can agree with out of the whole book of Genesis.)
Would you like it if someone killed and then ate you?
I think the distinction between which animals can be killed, and which ones are prohibited from slaughter under animal cruelty laws, are based not on any empathy with the suffering of the animal, but is instead based on how useful the animal is. In other words if an animal can be domesticated to fit human needs, then needlessly killing them in dog fighting, cockfighting, or random acts of violence would be seen as cruel.
In issues of whether to kill or not to kill, the utility of the animal is paramount. Dogs and cats have a variety of human uses such as being a companion, giving comfort to the sick, being used to assist the police in law enforcement activities, and assisting the handicapped (i.e. the blind and deaf). Roosters and chickens obviously have agrarian uses and thus it would be seen as wasteful to destroy their lives through some wanton entertainment.
Deer and bears cannot be domesticated, and the hunting of such animals helps to curb their population, which if left out of control, could be dangerous to our society. Bears frequently encroach and ravage human lands and are potentially dangerous. Deer, once their populations burgeon, become a real nemesis to highway traffic.
So in the final analysis, it is the ease of domestication and utility of the animal, both of which are dependent on the overall intelligence of the animal, that determines whether it is fit to be protected under animal cruelty laws.
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Human has far evolved from "law of jungle", don't kill others for territories, don't rape in public, don't kill others for survival, and now the time for gracefully avoid killing animals for our survival.
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"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
----Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist----
Some animals hunt and eat other animals because it is necessary for their surivival. In addition, the ralatively quick kill of a predator is nothing compared to months and years of starvation, mutilation, and downright torture which facotry famr animals suffer. The two are not even relatively comparable.
Biologically, humans share absolutely NOTHING in common with natural omni's and carnivores, and you would never find millions of them DYING as direct result of their meat consumption, as you do with humans. From diabetes complications to heart disease, America's gorging on animal flesh and consuming their mammary secretions is killing us. HUmans are only attracted to eating meat because it has been processed and packaged attractively. the reality of eating meat- eaing an animal raw and hearing it scream as you tear it apart- is repulsive to humans.
because animals don't bring other animals in thousands to slaughterhouses and kill them they hunt them and kill them when their hungrey and also animals eat other animals so for an example a a toad might eat a grass hopper but a snake might eat a toad and a hawk might try to eat a snake
That's an interesting question. While most animals who kill for food could not survive if they didn’t, this is not the case for humans. Eating meat is associated with diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, so we would actually be better off not eating meat.
Also, you are correct that eating meat is natural. Many other things are natural in the animal kingdom - infanticide, cannibalism, etc. Just because something occurs routinely in the animal kingdom doesn't make it ethically permissable for us to engage in that behavior.
Finally, there is nothing natural about factory farming. See: http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty....
Hope this answers your question!