Are Meat-Eaters Selfish? Are There Arguments Deceitful?!
Are Meat-Eaters Selfish? Are There Arguments Deceitful?
Make your own decision after viewing some facts:
A family of four could eat for a month on the grain it takes to grow one pound of beef.
A beef cattle uses 2500 gallons of water to mature.
Grazing cattle cause the extinction of hundreds of species of birds. Rain forests are being destroyed for grazing cattle.
Meat-eaters seem to be concerned that beef cattle will become extinct, but have no concern about the hundreds of other species meat animals drive to extinction.
Raising meat animals, and farming fish and shell fish, creates huge amounts of waste which winds up polluting our land, and water. It pollutes the ground water as well as the rivers and coasts. It has caused "dead zones" in our gulf and other places.
Birds and insects are essential to our human existence, but meat-eaters ignore this and insist that all 300 millions of them have the right to eat animals every day, even if it causes great extinctions.
Do the math. How many animals to feed 300 million people?
Answers:
I totally agree with you!!! Eating meat is very selfish act. It's bad for everything and everyone:
- bad for the planet, because of the water and cereal it uses, and because of the pollution it creates: more CO2 rejections than the car industry
- bad for our bodies
- bad, of course, for the billions of animals slaughtered every year for their flesh
Eating meat is like saying "I don't care about the planet. I don't care about the animals suffering their whole life and die a horrible death. I don't care that there will soon be no water left. I don't care that my planet is getting so polluted the future generations and all the living beings on it might not have anywhere to live. In fact, I don't care about anything but myslef, and my little moment of pleasure as I eat my piece of dead animal."
Go vegan!
I'd like to thank abbie and David G for their great example of meat-eater's selfishness.
Trill, I have still to see a cow eat another animal. I suggest you follow your own idea and watch a few documentaries about animals from time to time. You will no doubt learn some animals are meat-eaters, some are herbivores, others still can eat meat, vegetables or fruit. We have that choice. We do not need to kill to survive. Which means when we knowingly decide to kill anyway, that makes us selfish.
Ggirl:
The only thing hard to find in a vegan diet is B12, and you can live without it - or take non-animal B12 as I sometimes do. If meat was so essential to our bodies, how do you explain the fact there are so many veggies still alive? How can I still be alive and standing (not never ill, by the way) when I've been a veggie for 23 years? Me and so many others are living proof we don't need meat.