ATTN: MEAT EATERS

[xleighannex]

Please give me your valid reasons for eating meat. I don't want bullshit reasons like "IT TASTES GOOD!" or "I LIKE TO KILL ANIMALS!". I also don't want reasons like "eating meat is healthier than a vegetarian diet" or "humans were meant to eat meat" because neither of those things are true. I'm doing a speech in which I have to address both sides

Comments

[wednesdaymaking]

i eat meat because i think it's a lot healthier to eat hormone injected chickens instead of nasty vegetables. EW. seriously.

(p.s. if you want stats, i can send you the article i wrote for the paper. It talks about the effects on the animals, the environmenet, starvation, and the work force. It's basically a paper of pure facts and stats)

[dunkirkflames]

it is an instinct. plain and simple. if sex didn't feel good, people wouldn't fuck. if meat didn't taste good, we would grow more trees instead of cutting them down to raise cattle.

it's actually really hard to explain, I don't have the energy.

[billchair]

the argument of it being an instict is kind of moot. because if you follow that logic, then you have to acknowledge, and rationally justify, other instincts that can be deemed "animal" at best; i.e., lust, anger, territorial nature, hunger, and a whole plethora of others. for example - our instincts would have us violently attack anyone who a "partner" of ours, does that mean that it is okay? certainly not. to claim that it is a matter of instincts is just illogical, because you cannot claim one thing is instinct, thus making it okay, while denying others.

[jeffbotsadlove]

the availabilty of meat has always been abundant and ever since the hunter gatherer days human felt they were connected with animals and just like some animals eat meat the human mimiced. social conditioning for thousands of years of being taught this (meat) is food is just another option in life. it is becoming clear to more and more people today though that it is just that, an option.

[lizzybuckner]

i really think everyone should try not eating meat for two weeks. it really puts a different perspective to the whole animals being consumed thing. After 7 days I was converted and i didn't even plan on being a vegetarian, i just wanted to try it. If 7 days can change a very finicky person like myself, then i'm sure anyone who tried it two weeks would be like 'why the fuck am i eating this thing that if i saw it prancing about a field i'd say awwww look at the chicken or awww that baby cow is adorable.' I'm not even a vegetarian for animal rights. It just seems totally unnatural for a human being to consume things that are living, and besides the meat industry is disgussssssssssssting. anyways. sorry i ramble too much.

[billchair]

it is clear that humans are not "true" carnivores in the most literal sense; the idea of the body not being made to eat meat and that animals are not "natural" food for humans is often overdone. we do, obviously, have the faculties to eat meat, but they are not developed enough for us to be carnivores in the most strict sense of the word.

[xleighannex]

it IS unnatural for humans to eat meat. like i already said, look at our teeth. compare them to that of a carnivore's. our saliva is completely designed for the purpose of digesting complex carbohydrates found in plant food. flesh eating animals have highly acidic saliva for breaking down the protein in meat--the same goes for the acid in their stomachs. while this is not to say that we can't eat meat--because obviously we can--it is a sort of hint that maybe we weren't meant to.

[lizzy3917]

try giving a baby a slab of steak...its stomach will reject the meat because our bodies arent born to digest meats. thats why you have to start them out with something more natural like fruits or vegetables. if you want to raise a child to be omnivorous, you have to start them out with something light like fish. so eating meat really isnt natural.

[js041]

Vegetarians have me respect, most of my friends are vegetarians,and i adore them and respect them to death, but meat is meat, people have different views and i dont think any less of someone who doesnt eat meat, so i dont think anyone should think less of me if i eat meat. And if you do, ill EAT YOU, since im a meat eater. Thats actually canibalism, and i would never do that.

PS. I killed a deer but thats because it ran into my shot, sorry.