So I had a discussion with a friend, who said she could not imagine not eating some sort of meat product at least once a day. Personally I have meat free weeks and months, and try to avoid it as much as possible, but if I want to eat meat, I do so.
So I just wanna know what everyone else thinks? Please respect different opinions and lifestyles.
Depends. I wouldn't eat anything critically endangered, that way others could enjoy it's flesh in the future. For everything else there are a few decisions that need to be made.
How much more valuable are humans? And what amount of suffering are you willing to inflict for your pleasure?
Pheasant is delicious, and venison shouldn't 'ere be wasted.
I believe it's ethical and natural. There are numerous nutrients in meat which, through evolution, sustain us. Some of the highest quality proteins are found in meat.
The process of feeding animals specific food to make their meat taste different is a little sickening, but only unethical if it makes the animals suffer.
We're omnivorous, but that doesn't mean we have to eat meat. The only reason we're on top of the food chain, is because of our advanced technology. (I. e. what if you were in a cage with a hungry ass tiger, I don't think explaining that you're on top of the food chain would help a lot?)
Why compare us to wild animals? They rape too and live by different hierarchies, so I guess that's fine too?
What I'm asking, is it ethical? It's obvious we can, but should we, or at least to the extent we do it today.
1) There are certain proteins necessary to function that resides in meat. So yes, we must eat it.
2) No. We are at the top of the food chain because we were able to adapt better than the animals as hunters and gatherers, not to mention our mental capacity.
3) If the tiger had the same mental capacity that we do, do you think it wouldn't attack us? You'd be ignorant to think that a tiger wouldn't simply because it could NOT attack us since it thinks it's wrong. That's the point. It's about survival and it's not healthy to not eat meat.
4) There is nothing wrong with eating meat as I've already answered because if they had the self-awareness that we do, many would choose to continue living as they do. We need proteins from meat to metabolize and function. The only thing wrong is how some people raise them because their quality of life isn't good.
Other than that, to say it's unethical to eat meat is nonsensical especially when eating plants are living beings and you likely have no issue with eating them.
Humans are omnivorous, we were built to eat also meat. Now its totally different thing of discussion whether people should eat as mich eat we are currently eating (imo no)
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Adam1978 | 52 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Explorer
8 mo
Ethics only applies to how you treat the animal when it lives, not what you do when it's dead. So I am fine with eating animals but I am against animal factories where animals are just products not living, feeling, thinking creatures.
That obviously depends on your ethical beliefs. It's mostly unethical to my ethical beliefs.
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Deathraider | 413 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Guru
8 mo
It’s not ethical in the sense it’s morally righteous. I don’t assign a moral value to eating meat.
I mean if you have a moral reason for refraining from it, I would think it’s more of a “moral extra credit” in the sense that it’s a good thing to do, but not doing it isn’t bad.
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leahzrc | 171 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Yoda
8 mo
i have been vegan for 5 years and i guess i dont understand the conversation
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worldscolide | 248 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Guru
8 mo
The only time it's not ethical is if any portion of the animal is wasted. That thing had to die to feed you, no waste...
Well it isn't given how we farm them now. Its apart of being human to eat meat but as it was industrialised we do abuse animals for dairy and meat products
Ethics are a human construct. We are animals too, we are on top of the food chain. Everything we eat are living organisms, a banana has almost the same dna as us. We don't get by without killing other things, it's nature.
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Gedaria | 489 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Master
8 mo
If want to it up to them, I don't , but Im too sentimental to think they have died so I can feed my face...
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Anonymous
8 mo
I don't see anything wrong with eating meat. Sure, some of the places treat the animals like crap before they process it into our food, but not eating meat doesn't change that. The people who go ballistic about that are hypocrites because the people that make their clothes or cheap crap they use every day are treated like crap too, but that doesn't stop them from buying the clothes or stuff from China.
People don't think twice about eating plants and they are also living beings. Sure there's a problem with factory farms and animal cruelty but the thing is that humans need to eat meat.
There are ethical ways to source meat. I wish it was easier and more cost effective to have ethical meat. But I’m still eating meat regardless. Nature really doesn’t care about ethics when it comes to getting nutrients.
Of course its ethical. The amino profiles of meat protein are necessary to live and be healthy. Only with supplements can one be a healthy vegan and thats just not how we were built to survive. Without meat humans would be extinct right now.
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jimmy2 | 319 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Guru
8 mo
Yes in the Bible God brought down a sheet with all the animals and said they are clean to eat
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Trooper205 | 62 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Explorer
8 mo
I cannot stay away from meat. I'm practically a carnivore. My Girlfriend is the same!! I think it's OK. We've been given the ability and allowance to eat meat.
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MackToday | 130 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Guru
8 mo
Meat is great, so savory and good, hunting for meat is also fun though butchering the meat out is a chore. If you don't eat meat, u r a cuck.
@meesegoMoo Say , shit for brains, how do you know where I come from or how I was raised? Because you come from paint huffing weirdos doesn't mean the rest of the world is into that.
@meesegoMoo It isn't a mistake and you probably are high. Everything you've said makes no sense at all. Who the fuck you think I am I don't know but you're probably out of your head on something.
@meesegoMoo That's what you've been doing since you got here. Look at your original post. I"m supposed to think you have a good command of the English language looking at that shit? You don't fucking know what your doing, who your're even talking to or probably where your at. You come on here jacked up on something, get a bloody nose and now your butt hurt about it.
Am I the one who seems hurt? Says the dude pissed off about society allowing the mixing of races. If you have a belief let it be consistent. I was referring to your earlier posts, and how they relate to this one. You say people should have certain freedoms, I would think that the freedom to abstain from meat wouldn't be that big a stretch. If a person has that conviction, how does that make them a "cuck"?
Not a vegetarian by the way, just a consistent human.
Still no substance to add? Very well then. I'd hoped you would clarify your point and justify this position with the with your other views. Too bad, you may have won me over.
@meesegoMoo It's not my points it's your inability to understand simple things. Maybe read this when you come down. Unless you're crazy or something then forget it.
You still have yet to MAKE any points. Yet you've already said I have contradictory views. Interesting. You haven't blocked me though, the fact you've kept talking has earned you at least some of my respect. I was wrong about you being a coward.
Finally! A real point! What I see is a man who gloated over his own ignorance, tried to shame me for using an appropriate word, than misused "cognitive dissonance".
That is, unless you can actually find a logical hypocrisy in what I've written?
@meesegoMoo Look you don't understand English, you can't think critically well enough to have thoughts that can even be explained to someone. Look at this dumb shit. "Whoever pretends a religion is the lowest of cowards" it's like your high or schizophrenic or something. Everything you've posted has been like that, convoluted. It makes sense to you the way some schizophrenics thoughts make sense in his distorted mind.
@meesegoMoo You're ignorant af and like I said you have a piss poor command of English. Basically you live in your head and don't really understand what's going on outside of it.
I am not supporting to kill the animals. we don't have the right to kill any animals. we no need to protect them. They should live in the normal environment.
God should have made them out of tofu so they would be safe! :)
Anonymous
8 mo
I usually eat poultry and fish, some beef, these are mostly farmed for the purposes of eating so if you don’t eat them someone will.
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NightOwl8801 | 768 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Guru
8 mo
Yes it is... I eat meat on an almost daily basis. Beef, chicken, pork...
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BellumEtPacem | 73 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.
Xper 7
8 mo
Yes. It's ethical. Humans are naturally omnivores. They eat both flora and fauna.
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Anonymous
8 mo
We are omnivores. We are made (evolved) to eat meat.
Without meat we need to get those nutritional factors that we get from meat from other, often processed, sources which comes with other negative aspects.
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