What are your thoughts on eating meat?

Now I am a keen meat eater, I love a good burger and some chicken, but do you ever think about how these animals were once treated?

I'm currently watching a documentary called "Earthlings" and at one point they quoted Isaac Bashevis Singer saying "As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with the other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right."

What are your thoughts on this? I feel a little guilty but I will continue to eat meat.

I also think that using "all men were Nazis" is not really a good example, I thought it was laughable.


Earthlings

I don't think, I just eat...

No I don't think about it. They're food.

Tasy, tasty, murder.

I love to fish for dinner when I can (sometimes it's breakfast) and have no problem with having to kill the fish for the meat it provides me. I don't think of how the cows, chicken or pigs are killed when I put them on my plate for a tasty meal. If it meat weren't meant to be eaten, then why was it made to taste so good?

I'm vegetarian by choice. People shouldnt indocrinate vegetarianism though. It was once necessary but now its not and the way they're killed is a bit too cruel for my liking. And people who cant live without meat are like smokers to me. The amount of stick i get for it is embarrassing though.

I used to love being vegetarian... untill I realise most of the vegetarians whom I meet are very hostile and try to act like Mr.Know it All. Some of them eat Jelly and marshmallow that made of pork's gelatine thay dont even realise it hahaha....... hippiesanta

i'm cool with it, top of the food chain baby

http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20090416-foodchain.jpg


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I long for the day science makes killing current animals obsolete. We need to invent new and unique creatures to kill and eat.

I love meat, but I dont like treating of the animals like some kind of factory production. People act like bull fighting is so inhumane yet its the only way I believe we should get meat, by defeating it in battle, Only the strong or smart should get to eat other animals. It sometimes pisses me off thinking about animals just being slaughtered with no thought and a lot of it being wasted and thrown away like it was a piece a trash, if we are going to consume other animals we should at least have the respect to do it out of necessity and and consume and use the entire beast. But there's nothing I can do about it.

I eat meat. I have no moral qualms with that.

I love meat, but I dont like treating of the animals like some kind of factory production. People act like bull fighting is so inhumane yet its the only way I believe we should get meat, by defeating it in battle, Only the strong or smart should get to eat other animals. It sometimes pisses me off thinking about animals just being slaughtered with no thought and a lot of it being wasted and thrown away like it was a piece a trash, if we are going to consume other animals we should at least have the respect to do it out of necessity and and consume and use the entire beast. But there's nothing I can do about it.

Jolt_counter119

Bull fighting isnt exactly fair, and i love it when a bull is temporarily victorious and almost kills the matador, its beautiful. I have no problem with tribes and inuits etc etc who treat their prey with respect and dont slaughter them, i dont have a problem with that its nature.

Meat = good

I'm usually too busy enjoying chicken nuggets to care.

I love meat, but I dont like treating of the animals like some kind of factory production. People act like bull fighting is so inhumane yet its the only way I believe we should get meat, by defeating it in battle, Only the strong or smart should get to eat other animals. It sometimes pisses me off thinking about animals just being slaughtered with no thought and a lot of it being wasted and thrown away like it was a piece a trash, if we are going to consume other animals we should at least have the respect to do it out of necessity and and consume and use the entire beast. But there's nothing I can do about it.

Jolt_counter119

I like this point of view.

I do get some flak for being a vegetarian from people who eat meat. Jabs here and there, and of course there's always someone who needs to feed their ego by declaring how delicious meat is, yet a lot of people probably couldn't even handle killing an animal if they were face to face with one.
It's rather frusterating...

I like to buy the free ranged stuff only, I don't like cheap meat because then you know ithe animal has been treated badly.

I heard that for milk production, when the calf is born they are killed because they are useless?

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I love meat, but I dont like treating of the animals like some kind of factory production. People act like bull fighting is so inhumane yet its the only way I believe we should get meat, by defeating it in battle, Only the strong or smart should get to eat other animals. It sometimes pisses me off thinking about animals just being slaughtered with no thought and a lot of it being wasted and thrown away like it was a piece a trash, if we are going to consume other animals we should at least have the respect to do it out of necessity and and consume and use the entire beast. But there's nothing I can do about it.

Baconbits2004

I like this point of view.

I do get some flak for being a vegetarian from people who eat meat. Jabs here and there, and of course there's always someone who needs to feed their ego by declaring how delicious meat is, yet a lot of people probably couldn't even handle killing an animal if they were face to face with one.
It's rather frusterating...

There's a place for all God's creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes.

Oh and anyone who eats foie gras can die a horrible death as far as i'm concerned. I wouldnt bat an eyelid.

I like to buy the free ranged stuff only, I don't like cheap meat because then you know ithe animal has been treated badly.

I heard that for milk production, when the calf is born they are killed because they are useless?

**** animals.(unless they're cute)Lonelynight

I hate you. Unless thats a trolling post.

If you're hungry it's pretty easy to pull the trigger or do a few stabbings. And good luck trying to feed an entire populating by "defeating" each and every animal we eat. Work smart, not hard.

Deadbeatcobra

Thats pretty much what I mean by "defeating" is just hunting you're own meat you dont have to go colosseum on them it was just a little example. And I couldnt care less about the entire population, here in the U.S were one of the fattest if not fattest country in the world I think eating less and having to go out and work for our food would do us some good.

If you think man is bad to animals, you should see how animals kill each other. It's kind of how the species work.

I don't think about it. Frankly, I would give the guy who said that the finger whilst eating steak and slaughtering a calf.

I love meat.

I like to buy the free ranged stuff only, I don't like cheap meat because then you know ithe animal has been treated badly.

I heard that for milk production, when the calf is born they are killed because they are useless?

CBR600-RR

"Free range" only means they're let out of their cage for five minutes a day.

I'll let Troy McClure sum up my thoughts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bps-xbo8wnA

I also think that using "all men were Nazis" is not really a good example, I thought it was laughable.

CBR600-RR

It's the best thing ever.

If you're hungry it's pretty easy to pull the trigger or do a few stabbings. And good luck trying to feed an entire populating by "defeating" each and every animal we eat. Work smart, not hard.

Deadbeatcobra

Nope, don't care how they were treated, they're not sentient. They taste good, and they have to die somehow, or they'll not be able to be converted into yummy food.Inconsistancy

"Free range" only means they're let out of their cage for five minutes a day.

worlock77

Maybe in America, not in England, our cows and sheep graze most of the day.

I couldn't kill for meat so I was a hypocrite to continue eating it, so I stopped. The day I can look an animal in the eye minutes beforekilling it I'll turn the gun on myself. I'd rather a world where animals weren't used the way they are, but I can't see that ever happening. So, I live my life in the following way: "Be the change you want to see in the world." - Gandhi

I don't everargue with people who eat meat, they made their choice and I made mine. And that's that!