I Want to support Stopping Animal Cruelty but don't want to give up eating meats? What Can I do?

Question

I support PETA and what it does to document animal cruelty but I am not a vegetarian and enjoy eating meat. What can I do without seeming hypocritical?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure that the meat we buy in a store or a restaurant or whatever is killed quickly and not tortured so that doesn't qualify as animal cruelty.  Besides, humans were designed to eat meat anyway.  There's evidence of that.  Just look at our teeth.  Designed for tearing flesh. (okay maybe I'm getting too graphic)

If you want to support animal cruelty, make sure the makeup you wear (if any) isn't tested on animals and your local animal shelter treats the animals properly.  Oh and don't go to the circus.  They whip and beat their animals.  A lot!

Answer 2

I would say write your local congress man. Have evidence to support why it would be better for society..(having other people send it to the same congress man will help) After that if you convince them they will pass a law... Then you can help enforce that by being apart of a greater cause then your self..

hopefully this helps.. I need more points so don't be afraid to rate me..

Answer 3

lol every1 is wrong...its perfectly acceptable to still eat meat and not like cruelty to animals...after all not all meat is killed cruely........its like how can u be an environmentalist and still use electrcity and a car...you can still care about somthing like animal cruelty and eat meat.....just as you can be an environmentalist and still use electricity

just make sure that the meats u get are farmed as ethically as possible....as vegetarians famously quote "its not about eliminating it all together, its about reducing the suffering you cause" iv heard hundreds of veggies on here use this....so why cant you

caturday...you really are intolerant...you assume that every piece of meat was tortured and beaten to death...thats sick...let me ask you this...do you care about the planet...if you do...why do you use electrcity which harms the planet???????????

Answer 4

"What can I do without seeming hypocritical?"

Sorry, but the only way to NOT seem hypocritical in this situation is to give up meat.

It's nice that you care about animals, but you must not care about them a whole lot if you're willing to eat their flesh to please your taste buds when there are a million other foods you could eat instead.  That's more like, "I care about animals until it affects ME....then all bets are off."

If you want to be taken seriously you'll just have to practice what you preach.  I suppose you could volunteer for an animal shelter or something, but you'll never be viewed as an animal activist (and your opinion on the subject won't carry much weight) unless you're not eating the flesh of tortured animals.

fyi:  I'm a vegetarian but I am NOT an animal rights activist.  I believe in animal welfare and even from that standpoint I can see that eating them is wrong.....

Answer 5

Well you can support it and still eat meat. The organization PETA talks about animal cruelty meaning animals treated badly. If you eat meat raised and slaughtered locally it shouldn't matter because usually animals that don't go through large meat packing companies usually don't get hurt or treated bad. So there is nothing wrong with eating meat unless you are eating it from people that have abused the animal(s). So just research online which companies are local and safe and don't hurt the animals. For instense if you go to a nice resteraunt and eat a stake or something that is meat chances are they will not be buying meat from companies that sell to McDonalds but probably somewhere locally.

Answer 6

if you ask me alot of vegitarians that i see today don't look healthy alot of them look pale to me

on the other hand people that eat meat look more healthy to me

also us humans are made to eat meat

i hate animal cruelty also but i love meat, ya they could stop cutting chickens beaks off and tasering cows but i don't feel that i have to stop eating meat just because i don't like what they do.

Answer 7

Well you have to pick one or the other you can't support them and eat meat that's going against the idea of supporting them.  Giving up meat is really not that difficult you do get used to it and there are lots of vege recipes.

If you really don't want to give up meat that is fine it is your decision but you can't really be a true supporter of peta.

Answer 8

You can try buying organic meats or from smaller scale suppliers that tend to treat their animals a lot better. For example free range chickens as the name implies are given more room and are generally fed better and housed better than factory chickens. They are no more cruel than crop farms that used to house animals but are either now dead, (starved/starving to death due to loss of habitat) being killed as pests or killed during .harvest. It is estimated that over a billion animals are killed every year in crop farms. (compared to 40 billion in the meat industry)

If your only source information about animal cruelty is PETA then you are not informed at all. You can be a butcher of thousands of animals every year but if you pay your membership dues, you will still be a "member of good standing". That is hypocrisy.

Answer 9

The ASPCA and Humane Society do more to end mistreatment of animals than PETA.

However, anyone who really cares about animals will at least make an effort to quit eating meat.

Answer 10

I don't think you can reconcile the desire to stop animal cruelty with eating meat, which is clearly perpetrating animal cruelty.  There's just no way to kill an animal with kindness.  

Most of us did not give up eating meat because we didn't enjoy it.  We gave it up because we felt it was a sacrifice worth making in order to live out our principles.

Answer 11

Well sorry.  You can't have it both ways.  You are supporting that cruelty you saw by buying and consuming meat.  You can't call yourself an animal lover if you eat animals.

Also, the vids must not have effected you too much if you can still put that stuff on your plate.  Maybe it effected you a little, but not enough for you to help in our cause.

Answer 12

I would say that spreading the word is a good way to support PETA, the ASPCA and other societies that fight against animal cruelty.

The only way that you would seem hypocritical for me, would be trying to change what you eat and what you are without meaning it...

I Support all those groups but i eat meat.

Dont betray yourself but support the world, and the rights of all human beings and animals.

Answer 13

I'm sorry, but there's no way to stop animal cruelty without giving up meat.  There are plenty of veggie burgers, veggie dogs, veggie sausages, veggie crumbles, veggie deli slices, etc., out there, and if you don't like one, try another.  A company called Veggie Brothers has a great seitan (wheat gluten) "flank steak" that's flavorful and delicous.

You can give up animal "fabrics," by nonfood products from companies that don't test on animals, avoid circuses and zoos, etc., but well over 90 percent of animals exploited in the U.S. wind up on someone's  plate.

And free-range, unfortunately, is just a bunch of greenwashing.  The animals aren't treated much better, don't get much more room, and still die horrible deaths in the same slaughterhouses as their conventionally raised brethren.

Or you can wait until in-vitro meat becomes widely available.

Answer 14

hahah.

in order to support this "stopping animal cruelty" campaign you'd definitely have to give up meat. Thats like joining a "go green save the environment" club and having a hummer.

Btw, the chicken you are eating are chickens who are raised in factories and given artificial food and hormones. Their beaks are broken off and they dont even see the sunlight. That seems cruel to me. Would u support this by eating chicken?

also..the cows you eat are tasered and treated very cruely.

you need to support one side or the other.

Answer 15

Stop supporting them, or become a vegetarian.  They are unaccepting of people who have that idea, do you really think people who are willing to put sick videos of cruelty on the net just to stop it would want someone who is still eating animals?  Worry about people first, when theres not a single starving human on this planet, then start caring about the cows who have milk forcibly taken from then. By the way I'm a vegetarian myself, so don't think that I'm just a Meathead...

Answer 16

There are many things you can do and once again it comes down to having a well balanced attitude.

I am not a vegetarian, but I do like to think I still care about animals.

What is important, if you care about animals is to choose free range meats and eggs. You then know that where possible they have led better lives and not been locked in tiny cages unable to grow or thrive.

Another thing you could do is try not to use cosmetics tested on animals. I don't like the idea of anything being tested on animals, but once again, I liked to be balanced about my decisions. For example, if my daughter was dying, I would certainly be grateful that a drug could save her, regardless of whether or not it had been tested on animals.

If you can afford it, you could make a small monthly donation to an animal charity of your choice, such as the RSPCA, Cat protection, or the RSPB.

Another thing you can do is try to protect your environment, thus reducing the number of animals that go into extinction.

You could also stop buying leather.

Ultimately many animals on this planet would have not even been born was it not for our desire to eat them, I think the important thing is that they lead happy lives while they are here.

Answer 17

Buying meat from walmart doesnt count as animal cruelty coz we raise them to eat.Its okey to kill an animal for food but dont kill them for fun. Stand against hunting coz they are killing animals for fun eventhough meat is available in supermarkets.I appreciate ur thinking, its good to see someone to stand for voiceless animals in this human dominated world.

I wish you all the best.

Answer 18

12 day avoiding umami or being vegan can help. after this twelve days, you will feel that animal meat make your feeling very heavy. I tried it and I realize that meats are not really delicious but previously, I love meat. or other thing, try vegan meat. High in fibre, high in protein, low in fat, low in purities, less carbon dioxide emission, makes you feel better. But the best thing is

"NO ONE GETS HURT"

                           - PETA

Answer 19

You can still eat meat, i don't know why everyone making a big deal,

you can do smaller things like donate to different charities, help out in animal hospital, buy faux clothing or camgian against the real furs and so on. people help go green but u don't see everyone driving a hybrid for example. going veterinarian is good but its not the only thing. smaller things help too.  

Answer 20

The ONLY way to do that is to eat meat from an animal that was killed in the wild AND was from an overpopulated area.

If an animal doesn't die in its natural habitat, there is cruelty involved. Every piece of meat in a store or restaurant was from an animal that died in a slaughterhouse and was terrified before and during slaughter whether it was given a "happy" life or not.

Answer 21

You could try eating organic, hormone free, steroid free, anti-biotic free, free range, and vegetarian(grass and oats) fed meats. Research local family farms in your area, or better yet go to wholefoods and ask one of the employees for a pamphlet about locally raised foods. A lot of the small farmers will be more than happy to show you their farms, how they raise the animals, and how they slaughter their animals. There is nothing wrong w/ supporting animals rights and still eating meat.

Answer 22

I think its ok to eat meat but it is not, if its from endangered species. U should list what the animal u think is cruel to be kill. If it just cow, lamb, camel, chicken, it doesn't show any fact that u u are anima cruelty. it doesn't make any sense. this animal are given their life for human to eat.

Answer 23

well, i think it would be best just to stop eating meat..some go semi-veg and eat seafood & that in a way could sorta replace meat in general...also there is organic meat where they don't pump animals full of hormones and they are free to walk around in fields and its a lot less cruel (you can get organic foods at whole foods or trader joes) but still just try to train yourself to not eat meat, maybe now and again is ok, but you shouldn't go against what you believe in or are supporting.....i'm kinda going through the same thing too lol. but i'm cutting down on meat, all i really have to do is look at it from the animals point of view and it motivates me to try harder...anyway i hope this helped. good luck!

Answer 24

honestly i think if you really cared you would stop eating meat, so no one is goign to take you seriously if your fighting for animal rights and eating meat.  you'll be seen as hugely hypocritical.  you can do some volunteer work at an animal shelter or something but if you really want to be out "crusading" for animal rights you have to practice what you preach.

Answer 25

you know, eating meat isn't necessarily animal cruelty. it's really only cruelty if you kill them inhumanely [that sounds like an oxymoron]. if they died in a non-torturous way, then it's not really animal cruelty. i think it really all depends on what you consider cruelty.

now if that cow was stabbed 50 times before slaughtered and processed... that's cruelty.

Answer 26

why don't you try mock meats. They really taste similar. I gave a piece to a meat eater (my brother) on the weekend and he didn't realise that it was fake. Then once I told him, he didn't believe me and thought that the box was lying.

Mock meats can help you stop contributing to the cruelty in the meat industry.

Free range meat isn't cruelty free as the animals can still be slaughtered horribly, but it just got the chance to be outside first. Besides, killing an animal and eating its flesh is cruel, right?

So try replacing your meat dishes, with mock meats and veggies and see if you like it. I can't think of anything else you can do as PETA are pro-veganism. For recipe ideas, try peta's cooking website: www.vegcooking.com

You could also try downloading one of peta's 'vegetarian starter kits' that give you ideas on how to replace meat.

Answer 27

It seems like most people here have an "All or nothing" view on your question. I'm not a vegetarian, but I care about animals deeply.

If you can't give up meat, try to reduce your intake of it, hunt/catch your own (if thats an option),  and try to buy free-range meats and eggs. There are many people that the only thing they do is be a vegetarian. You can easily go above and beyond these people by voluteering at an animal shelter, cleaning up trash at state parks, donating money to organizations you beleive in, raising your own hens, reporting cases of animal cruelty you see, and there's a million other things you can do.

P.S. I was the animal rights group president in my high school, people are only quick to criticize eating of meat until you them everything you've actually done to help animals.

Answer 28

Well you would have to at least make an effort to stop eating meat- take it slow if you can't do it all at once- but try to eventually give it all up.

And all the users who recommended organic/humane/free range/grass fed etc. they still die and most of them are still treated very cruelly- the "happy meat" movement is one cooked up by the meat industry to make you feel good about your choice to eat meat.

If that is your choice- it is your choice- but the "humane" stuff is no better as far as animal cruelty

Much of the fake meat is really tasty- try tempeh or seitan- everything isn't tofu.

I hope you'll give it a chance :)

Answer 29

There are many things you CAN do, but not one of them are as effective as becoming a vegetarian.

We have faux meats, we don't have vitamin deficiencies and we're awesome.

You can part with meat, we all had to go through this at one point. Just think that your hamburger was a beaten, tortured and slaughtered innocent creature.

That should make it less appetizing

Answer 30

Good question!

First, you can still eat meat, but just be mindful of practices.  I do not eat certain things such as Veal, since it's a cruel way of raising them.  Hunted animals in the wild are also unfair since they often orphan their young and leave them helpless.

Research farms in your local area that have humane ways of raising the animals without filling them full of chemicals.  

Don't believe these people whom say hunting is the answer in the 'wild'.  Not true, they have so many 'missed shots' that lead to wounded animals never being found, or dying a slow death.  

Hunting is the cruelest thing to do, especially Bow hunting.