Are you considered a hypocrite if you support animal rights but you eat meat?!
Are you considered a hypocrite if you support animal rights but you eat meat?
Answers: You CAN'T support animal rights and eat meat...alot of people confuse animal rights with animal welfare.You can support animal welfare and eat meat.
Animal rights:Animals are not ours to eat,not ours to wear,not ours to experiment on,and not ours to be used as entertainment(zoos,circuses,et... or ANY other exploitive paths.
Animal welfare:We can use animals however we see fit,AS LONG AS it is done humanely.
Explanation of animal welfare vs. animal rights
http://animal-law.org/theory3.html... Source(s):
Conscientious vegan In my opinion..yes..one contradicts the other. No, every animal has the right to participate in the food chain. I just help some of them out. No. Depends if you support PETA or not. PETA are a bunch of nutters whereas a lot of us more moderate animal supporters realise that humans eat meat as part of our diet. Yet this does not mean that animals that are eaten should be mistreated. yes no animal rights is just that your helping them, from being hurt or used in a harmfull manner not from being eating Personally, i wouldn't say so, eating meat is a natural and heathy part of not only our, but most animal's ways of life. There is absolutely nothing unnatural about it. The big distinction comes in in how the animals are treated. For example, do you eat veal? That would be being a hypocrite, but as long as its just normal meat i think you are safe. No way. As long as you are not telling others not to eat it. Animals while alive have the right to a healthy life free of abuse they also have a right to be killed in the most humane way with as short as possible suffering. Not like when they are slaughtered towards mecca or whatever it is and have a slow painful and scary death. No. I eat meat but would like to make sure the animals have been treated as best as possible. I want to make sure they've not been give hormones , useless antibiotics and that they are free to roam. I Am a hypocrite yes. Because if i support animal rights ,
i ought to allow it its very life to itself! . I must stop the butcher from killing it then . Well , then i should not be a meat-eater. Because , no one waits for the meat until the animal dies . He kills it ! This depends on how extreme you are on the animal rights issue.
On the one most extreme side people willl use no animal products of any kind. This means in addition to not eating meat they will not eat dairy products nor will they buy leather goods etc.
On the more moderate side you may eat meat but not support factory farming or other types of farming that you feel may be abusive to the animals. For example, you may require that the meat you eat comes from free range animals that are not fed any kind of hormones nor have said animals been foreced to be inside of confining cages etc.
I am one such person I do not believe in cruelty to animals but I still eat some meat.
The only meat I eat is organic, no hormones, no weird stuff in the animals diet etc. I will only eat meat that comes from animals that have been raised in their natural environment.
I also love leather lol Nope, not in my opinion. i dont think so, because theres nothing you can do about it. i mean why not eat a hamburger the cows already dead not eating it wont make it come back to life. you arent a hypocrite. when you support animal rights, youre talking about their quality of life. but there are things like halal where the animals are slaughtered in a humane manner (well, in as humane a manner as possible). its like prefering free-range chicken to force-fattened chicken. youre supporting animal rights that way I feel that yes, you are a hypocrite if you support both their rights and the slaughter of them. It doesn't even really sound right in a sentence to me. And I agree with the person above, Vegan&Proud. There's a difference between supporting animal rights and supporting animal welfare.
Oh, and for the person who said it was "natural" for us to eat meat. Well, I don't think it's very natural to keep things locked up in tiny cages and force feed them horrible things, and I'm not just talking about hormones and antibiotics. I read in a book with credible sources that the slaughter industry even feeds dead cows to calves and things. I never really thought cannibalism could be considered natural. Well, it's about ignorance right?
All those Greenpeace people all meat eaters at one time and it never occurred to them that their diet had anything to do with it because they were once entirely focusing on the physical destruction and pollution of the world until one day at a Greenpeace banquet someone pointed out the fact to them all and it made them wonder... hm... really? So you can see just how, even the people with the best intentions in the world, some people need to be given the key to that box that surrounds their head where all they have to look out at the world with is a small cut out hole in the shape of a TV screen.