Do you ever feel guilty about eating meat which was once animals?

[justlilly]

Today I was at the library and in front of the only available computer was a little pamphlet from Vegan Outreach with a picture of some chickens on the front. I was about to work on a quiz for a class that is about the meat industry and USDA quality grades and restrictions and retail meat cuts...I found it ironic.

The little chickens looked so adorable, but at the same time chickens aren't actually that cute in real life. Also, most of the chickens in the world wouldn't even exist if they were not bred to be used for human food consumption.

I know some of you are probably vegan and believe in the whole 'meat is murder' thing. What is everyone's opinions about animals for human food consumption and what is your background personally on this issue?

[aDzNichilista]

I once used to feel guilty. But now with my nihilistic views, nothing is by default good or bad. I have no good or bad. Killing animals is same as killing people or plants for that matter(Because scientifically plants have feelings too). Neither a vegan is too good nor a murderer is too evil or a non-vegetarian is a mediocre either :P Everybody travels in same boat. So my guilt feel vanished :P

[WoIIie]

I don't feel guilty, because I don't physically raise the animals and slaughter them. All I know is that they are delicious.

[justlilly]

I grew up on a farm where I did physically raise animals for slaughter. Often times we ate the very animals we raised. I always thought this made me less against eating meat because I knew that the animals aren't always cute and fluffy like some will have people think they are. In fact I despised the sheep that my parents raised and told my parents at a young age that I was happy they would become lamb chops for people to eat someday

[WoIIie]

Well, I've heard of many cases where those who raised chickens could not eat them.

[Neliel]

I believe animals were mad by god as food for us. That's how I believe. But told not to hurt them unecessarily . For example if we are going to eat chicken. We should give it water and then kill it in one shot. And we need meat. So I don't feel quilty about it. :)

[Moloch]

LOL

[sephora]

No I don't feel guilty, but there should be better regulations on how the animal are raised.

[justlilly]

Oh yeah, I totally agree. However, food would be much more expensive if that were to happen.

[sephora]

yeh unfortunately big corporations wants mass produced food.

[anony84]

Unfortunately, I have to say that no I do not feel guilty at all.

[UnderTheOver]

I BELIEVE THAT ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS! The right to be tasty being one of them.. mmm!

[DesiBeautyLover]

Only once. You know what happened. I caught a fish and had it fried up, and I was a little sad and disturbed because I saw that thing alive an hour ago and held it.
I prefer to not see my food alive before I eat it.

[Loon309]

Not even slightly. Children are being raped right now but somehow eating a dead animal's flesh is more important? Fuck that. Everything is suffering. Why should animals be exempt from that?

[foolycooly1001]

I'm a vegetarian going vegan. I don't support speciesism.

[justlilly]

What does that mean?

[foolycooly1001]

link

[justlilly]

So you believe that eating a chicken is like eating a person?

[foolycooly1001]

I don't believe that eating a chicken is better just because it's a chicken. I would eat a chicken first if I had to choose, but if the chicken were as smart as a human, I might eat the human instead. A better way to think of it in my case is that I don't consider a chicken's desire not to die less important than a human's.

[foolycooly1001]

I judge the interests of animals on different criteria than species. The practical aspect of this position is animal liberation. Things like going vegan, not having zoos, and not experimenting on animals.

[justlilly]

In the case of animals that are used for food, most of the animals would not exist id they were not being used for food. Chickens, for instance, outnumber humans. There would not be that many chickens if they were not bred to be used for food.

[foolycooly1001]

So what? I'm not saying kill all the chickens. I'm saying stop killing them. What does it matter if fewer chickens are born if people stop eating them? That doesn't involve killing them. It's kind of like saying people shouldn't use birth control because of all the people who will never exist.

[justlilly]

Yeah, but didn't those chickens have a right to live, too? People use the same argument with abortion.

[foolycooly1001]

they don't exist. they have no rights. they only exist in your imagination.

[ihatework]

i love meat, pass the bbq sauce.

[justlilly]

Me too.

I was a vegetarian for several years. It started as part of an eating disorder where I was super controlling over my body and food. Eventually I started eating meat again because whenever I would crave it, I felt horribly guilty because it was something I told myself I wouldn't eat, but I didn't have a real reason why I shouldn't.

[Moloch]

Nope, I've killed chickens myself.

[MyNameIsJonas]

No.

[justlilly]

SO are you saying you don't eat meat?

[MyNameIsJonas]

Im saying I don't feel guilty.

Of course I eat meat, It's unnatural not too.

[justlilly]

Oh, nevermind. I understand your answer.

[MyNameIsJonas]

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[Habakkuk]

not remotely

[justlilly]

So you don't eat meat?

[Habakkuk]

i don't feel remotely guilty

[justlilly]

I got you. I understand now.

[Bae360]

Yes...

[sourpatchchik2]

Hmm...nope.(:

[PANDAmonium]

Nah