since it appears that your one of these people who don't eat meat because it was once alive you should know that with the exception of a few chemicals and salt, EVERYTHING we eat, meat or veg was ALIVE at one point.
if you don't eat things that were alive you WILL die, since something has to die for me to eat i would rather it be something TASTY.
It isn't a wrong. You have problems. Why can't people like you accept that eating meat is natural?! It has been the way since the beginning of time. If you don't want to eat meat, fine. But don't say it is wrong. You try arguing with a lion. I'll eat you and your ridiculous beliefs. Would you persecute a fox for killing rabbits? No, it is the natural order of things. How can you argue with nature?
Edit - Yes, you can give me thumbs down. But can you actually argue with me intelligently? Your argument is just an illogical rant - I would like to see it interwoven with just a
smigeon of intellect if you would be so kind.
Edit two: Why do you bring slavery into this?! What has that got to do with anything? By bringing that into the agrument, you have proved your immaturity and therefore your inability to argue to prove your point. No, I don't believe that slavery is natural. Nor do I believe that it is in any way relevant to this!
You can't be an accessory to a crime because it isn't a crime to kill animals in slaughter houses.
My view is, if an animal is treated with love and kindness during it's life, and is given a chance to live long enough to reproduce and do everything an animal is meant to do during it's life, then it has served it's perpose. I therefore believe that, as long as it's done in a humane way, it is not a crime to kill and eat that animal.
However, I do agree with you that the consumer is just as guilty, if not more so, as the person who actually does the slaughtering. I am an omnivore and I do eat meat, but I try to only buy animals who I know had a good quality of life.
I also think that there is a great deal of waste when it comes to the meat industry. The native Americans used every single part of the buffalo's body for something, and treated the animal with respect during it's life. I think we can learn a great deal from them.
Many people are vegetarians simply for the health reasons. I have no problem with killing animals for food and leather jackets and sofas etc. I just do not want the saturated fat in my system. I will slaughter and cook all kinds of animals for the pleasure of others but just do not eat them.
Christy/Ashley, you are not a genuine vegan or vegetarian. Your sole purpose in the V & V section is to make inflamatory statements, insult other members & give genuine vegans & vegetarians a bad name. How sad & empty your little life must be.
Your question is so full of nonsense, its' almost funny. I read it to my 8 year old daughter and she asked me this: "Dad, is she one of those people who hears voices?"
"yes hon, I guess she is..."
Oh for heavens sake. We are omnivores. It's the natural food chain and we are meant to eat both meat and vegetables! Why kill the vegetables if not meat? They have life too! So you're a vegetable murderer then?
Goodness.
Eating meat is natural. The original blood-type (O) is believed to be the earliest human blood group and commonly meat-eating-people have this bloodgroup. (Only after farmers started farming, did the blood types A and B came into existance.)
If it wasn't for us meat-eaters, you wouldn't even be here.
Its just a job, people have got to make a living (when you are grown up and leave school you will understand this)
Is it wrong for a tee-totaller to work behind a bar?
Or an environmentalist to work in a petrol station?
No. They are just jobs, just because she serves other people meat doesnt mean she eats it herself.
She unlike you realises that its ok to have your own beliefs, but its not ok to ram them down the throats of others
Food is a luxury item,,, for those who have none,,, Grow up !!!!
There are greater problems in the world than how people eat, I for one enjoy my food to the full including meat i would much rather be a happy person that a whiny little baby like yourself.
Your are as false as they come,,,, Ashley
Let me tell you something.
I did five years at a fedral pen and I had to eat rats raw.
When you have to do that you understand more of life.
food chain, look it up
Christy/Ashley -
In this current economic climate jobs are becoming harder and harder to come by. Therefore, I am sure there are lots people who have jobs that may conflict with their personal beliefs. However, as an ADULT they have to go to those jobs to make money to support their families. While their IMMATURE children come onto the Internet to harass people about things they have no idea what it is they are talking about. That is the real world, there is no utopia. So take your warped imaginative views and hit the road. Or grow up, but the latter doesn't seem as likely.
similiar to a soldier , sometimes we need to do things we don't like or agree w/
ok. let ME be the one to tell you that i did not say that. first off, i wasn't justifying my beliefs that way, i was merely saying that i knew someone who was vegetarian and worked in the meat department of a grocery store. odd i know, but anyway...you get ahead of yourself. you just want to take any chance you get to make other people look bad. this is a rant i beleive, and you already know your 'answer' so im reporting it. all im saying is that I didn't kill the cow, someone else did and i'm paying for it. it's my money and i'll use it how i want. grow up ash.
oh yes and quit making such a huge deal out of spelling errors. we are human, we make typos. now if you don't mind, im going to do my homework now....oh but first...
I KNOW YOU ONLY DID THIS TO 'HUMILIATE ME' AND IT DIDN'T WORK. I COULD CARE LESS IF THESE PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW THINK I SAID SOMETHING STUPID (WHICH MIGHT I ADD I DIDN'T SAY THAT) SO LEAVE MEAT EATERS AND VEGETARIANS ALONE (OH YES I KNOW YOU HATE VEGETARIANS, YOU THINK THEY'RE 'NOT GOOD ENOUGH') AND KEEP YOUR BELIEFS AWAY FROM ME, I'LL LIVE HOW I WANT AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME FEEL GUILTY, EVEN IF YOU SAY MEAT EATERS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS WRONG, BECAUSE WE ARE DOING NOTHING WRONG, YOUR THE ONE ALWAYS CRITICIZING EVERYONE'S LIFE STYLES!!! OH AND PLEASE STOP CALLING PEOPLE REDNECKS FOR EVERY TYPO THEY MAKE, ITS ANNOYING....YOUR ANNOYING!
gaw you don't know how long i've wanted to do that.
Oh dear Christy. You are ranting about something you cannot change. You can call it slaughter or murder, I really do not care what your opinion is because these animals would probably cease to exist if they were not being raised for the food chain.
In this day and age, we pay for almost everything, so I suggest you take a reality check lady because the service you get in a newsagents is no different to the slaughterman doing his job and criminality,animality or slavery do not enter the equation.
I'm a vegetarian and I disagree with you. Basic primal instinct tells us what to eat and what not to eat. For centuries, man has eaten meat and used animal products to survive. How can you deny something so natural?
Most people simply don't want to think about how their food ends up on their table. It's the "bury you head in the sand" approach. Life is a lot less stressful when you don't give a damn about those less fortunate than yourself, be they animals or other people. It's easy for people not to think where meat comes from because it's packaged in so many different ways. At least old-fashioned butcher's shops laid it all out for your to see meat as it really is.
Edit : Monkey D obviously needs to look up the word "sentient" in the dictionary.