Imagine this picture..?!
The meat production is reduced to small farms with strict policies about breading, raising and feeding the animals, making sure they are provided with decent life conditions.
The slaughter houses are using humane methods in slaughtering.
For such meat you have to pay more, but you are confident that you are not buying "cruelty" behind it.
Would you go back to eating meat?
Answers: Big meat industries are banned.
The meat production is reduced to small farms with strict policies about breading, raising and feeding the animals, making sure they are provided with decent life conditions.
The slaughter houses are using humane methods in slaughtering.
For such meat you have to pay more, but you are confident that you are not buying "cruelty" behind it.
Would you go back to eating meat?
no, i'm a vegetarian.
I've learnt through 28 years as a veggie that there is no need to eat meat to live a healthy and happy life.
Therefore, i no longer see animals as food.
Thanks for posing the question is an open way. Its much better than some of the others we've had recently.
I have to disagree with exfst's comment about unemployment. The whole point of mass-produced commercial meat is thats its cheap. Along with that comes very few staff to manage the animals. Its this, and the low "out price" of meat that causes poor animal husbandry.
If animals were farmed, slaughtered and prepared more locally, it would mean higher employment, not lower.
I do agree that would increase the cost of meat. But only to a realistic price rather than the current unsustainable pricing that requires propping up by government grants.
I don't believe people in Africa would die if the USA didn't send them milk powder.
no i hate meat anyways
I never stopped eating meat?
I love meat. I could not imagine not eating it. For all you vegetarians out there, I only have one thing to say....... how?
Hell yeah I would.
But I already eat meat now, BUT if I was a vegetarian, I would be all... Well hell yeah I'll eat that cow!
I AM PROUD TO BE A VEGAN :)))
Yes,I would not mind eating meat of animals which are slaughtered by humane methods. I would pay extra bucks too! Its all your prespective you see. Everyone's got a philosophy.
Eating animals has come till date since pre-historic times. Eating meat has its own advantages and disadvantages, I take the advantages ,like I love it in the first place.its nutritious and healthy.
We as humans are completely authorized to eat meat of animals as long as they not really are on a brink of extinction!!! But then who says, cattle,goats,ducks,chickens are endangered.
And about the conclusion. Your question is very debatable.
No never ever. It would be nice if animals had better living conditions. But slaughter is slaughter, I would still never eat meat.
Well not "go back" since I already eat meat but most of the meat that I eat already come from small farmers or ranchers that are family friends and from"designer" suppliers for the more expensive "specialty"cuts (like USDA Prime, Wagyu beef and Korubota pork) so yes.
With such a scenario,it is also quite easy to imagine,ahigher than normal unemployment rate because of all the jobs lost, the higher than normal number of hungry and impoverished families who were once totally dependent on the meat industry and subsidiaries (feed, leather, milk etc).Not only would beef itself would be expensive but also dairy and of course milk.Milk which was once the staple of poverty related feeding programs in teh US and abroad will be too expensive to be unavailable. Then a domino effect would be increased illness,malnutrition and death to those especially in the 3rd world countries whose only source of protein was donated milk powder., The list can go on and on.
No way. I would never go back to eating meat. I don't have a right to harm innocent animals. What crime did they do? Why should they have to be locked up and murdered to support my dietary choices? I agree that humane agriculture is better than what we have now. However, I still prefer to live my life with more honor that to have animals killed unnecessarily for my tastebuds. There are plenty of people who have been vegetarian or vegan their whole lives and are perfectly healthy. It's important to live our lives with compassion, because this is our legacy. Taking advantage of those without a voice (in this case, the animals) is something that only cowards and bullies do. I can't be proud of my life legacy if there has been so much violence and murder just to sustain my life.
Well, no. I became vegetarian because I learned that slaughtering animals using ANY method is inhumane. I could never go back to eating meat.
It's nice that to think that the animals are provided with decent living conditions and a lovely environment, but remember that anyone eating them is still involved in the animal's murder. How can that possibly be considered "cruelty free"?
I'll always be a meat eater.
no, I wouldn't your still eating a living thing. I would however have more respect for those who eat meat then I do now. They would have a better argument. Good question.
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Absolutlely not, animal use of any kind is wrong. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, or experiment on, no matter how "humane(ly)" you say they will be bred, raised, fed. etc. All animals have one basic right - not to be treated as the property of others.
No, because I'd still be taking a life to satisfy my taste buds and i don't think that's right. People aren't really more superior to animals and don't need to eat them so why should we.
Ooh, interesting question. Honestly, I would still say no. I can't imagine eating meat again, even the smell of it cooking makes me feel a little ill. However, I do think this would be very popular with non-veggie animal lovers. I'm not sure of my facts on this one, but doesn't organically farmed meat come from 'cruelty free' sources? I know the animals have much better living conditions, but I don't know if they are slaughtered in more humane ways or not.
no. I stopped eating meat because I didn't want to "kill" more animals.
the people that say animals are still dying for your tastebuds...heres one for you...plants are still dying for your tastebuds..yes when u pick a carrot it dies...we can survive on just meat and supplements so if we can do this why eat those plants when we dont have to..and we can feed chickens and other animals synthetic supplements to give them all the nutrition they need...so we clearly dont need to eat plants so why do you all still eat them??????
One day I may raise chickens, mostly for the eggs and for my bf to eat. I may have a little then, but not from a store or resturant ever again. I just can't trust how the animals are treated. I will never eat cows or pigs again, I quit eating them before I even knew of factory farms.
No, I don't think I'd ever eat meat again. I don't think anyone who would WANT to kill an animal should be entrusted with their welfare. You know?
But if one day I ever had a backyard big enough to keep a cow and chickens, I could be persuaded to started eating a small amount of dairy and eggs again.
hell no, killing is still killing, there is no humane way to kill!
imagine a hen and a chick - you killed the hen in a 'humane' way - if the chick could protest, i dont think it'll forgive you
Meat doesn't taste good to me, all ethics aside. Sure if you put enough mustard, ketchup, honey glazed bbq sauce, salt and pepper etc., any flesh would taste good, including a human's rib meat or thigh.
Having big meat industries banned and having strict conditions for slaughtering, and the environmental problems caused by the practice, would be a huge step towards towards evolving for the human race.
I will never eat meat the rest of my life unless I'm going to starve to death and have no other options, then that meat would include humans if there were no animals to be found.
It would be wonderful if that happened but I would not go back to eating meat. I don't like to bite into food and chomp on a bone or tumor.
I eat meat.
You would still be killing animals. You would still be "buying cruelty" as you put it.
Killing is cruel. Some things in life are unpleasant. That's being a grownup. Everything is not a basket of kittens.
Let's talk about the plight of migrant workers who are paid ridiculously small wages to pick the fruit and vegetables you eat, who are mistreated and can only afford to live in a house with a large number of people packed in. Your consumption of fruits and vegetables supports this cruelty. Oh, also- even organic produce is grown with some kind of pest repellent. It still kills pests, it just does so "naturally." Wax spray suffocates them. Your consumption of produce encourages the killing of codling moths, caterpillars, worms and some kinds of butterflies. Stop eating fruits and vegetables- it is cruel.
End cruelty. Stop eating. Oh, wait- there would still be homicide, rape and war.
End cruelty. Stop existing.
Btw, I think you meant "breeding." Breading would be coating the animals with a savory crust.
Imagine this big picture...
If big meat industries are banned, you will be out of a vegan diet. If everyone ate just vegetables, then there would not be enough supply due to crops being plagued, dried by drought, lack of farmland because of population growth, and the extinction of the bees that are responsible for pollinating the majority of the plant and fruit crops. Many meat eaters are doing a big favor for vegans and vegetarians, because they would be paying higher prices for their diets, and there would be a great shortage of their resources if it weren't for us. I don't think they should have a right to complain about the slaughtering of animals.
If your idea of animal cruelty is the slaughtering in general, than this question is redundant .
NO, how perfect are you to draw the "line" between...human animal & non-human animal. Indeed human is most cruel than any animal beings from what you imagine...if there is no law, order, police, God or religious principle. May be you're exceptional from this Law...in God's "Image".
Historically, man has expanded the reach of his ethical calculations, as ignorance and want have receded, first beyond species, family and tribe, later beyond religion, race and nation. To bring other species more fully into the range of these decisions may seem unthinkable to moderate opinion now. One day, decades or centuries hence, it may seem no more than ‘civilized’
behavior requires.”
i'm gonna eat meat no matter what you goofy broad