If you are a vegan or vegetarian and don't eat meat because of cruelty?

Question

would you eat it if the animals were humanely treated.

The problem today is most people don't relate to what they see in the butchers shop to that of an animal. It is all neatly packaged. To the average person meat eating is a natural thing to do. Where I live there are no vegetarians who are against the killing of animals, in fact they find it most strange that people feel that way in other countries.

The bigger problem is if we treat all animals humanely then the cost of meat production would rise because it would be expensive to produce, but if animals were treated better how would you feel about it.

Answer 1

I'm a vegan and even if the animal died of natural causes,i still wouldn't want to eat the flesh of a dead animal.There are a few reasons for this.I believe meat to be unhealthy.If i look at meat,i don't see dinner i see death,disease and decay,and i don't know that i have the right,certainly not the right to take the life of another being.It seems a bit strange to be kind to an animal before you unnecessarily kill it.So no,i wouldn't eat meat under any circumstances.I just don't understand that mentality,i really don't wish to be judgmental but it seems to me,that as we don't need meat,infact we are healthier without it and there's so much else to eat,that if you're not vegetarian,you're partaking in ending the life of a creature who has been born into this world to enjoy their time here and has every right to life,just as you and i,merely for the sake of ones appetite.

Answer 2

I'm vegetarian and it doesn't make any difference to me if someone says animals raised for meat are being treated "humanely."

I have to agree with Michael H on that one. The so-called humane treatment of animals for slaughter sounds ridiculous to me. Kind of like "we treated him really nice up until I smacked him in the head with a hammer."

I don't want animal's lives to be taken for my food. Life is sacred to me. Also, it is not necessary for human nutrition to eat meat.

Answer 3

I'm a vegetarian and no I would not.

An innocent life is still being taken, it being done in a humane fashion doesn't make it better..

Answer 4

Ok, let me put it this way...

If your mothers best friend poisoned and killed your mother would you say..."It's ok because it was done humanely"?? I don't think so!

Killing is still killing, regardless of the method that was used. Killing is still cruel, no matter how nice you treated the animal/person up until the day you killed them.

It's impossible to kill "humanely".

If animals were treated better, it would include NOT killing them. I would not eat meat no matter where it came from.

Answer 5

im not only a vegan because of the cruelty. yes, that is a main component of it, but i also just cant bring myself to eat the flesh of another creature. it seems way too wrong to me.

Answer 6

"would you eat it if the animals were humanely treated."

I don't care if they're given manna for food and holy water to drink, if they're murdered (or denied their birth-rights in any other way) it's wrong. Most animals are killed before they even reach adulthood. Veal after a few weeks, cows when they're four - these animals can live to around 25, hens after 18 months when they can live over a decade... you get the picture.

As it happens, 'humane' farming is mainly a myth. Changes are small, and prices shoot up, so the farmer has even more money to play with, resulting in greater number of animals being mistreated and net suffering going up. Farmers themselves have admitted (anonymously) that they do not keep the same standards when the inspectors aren't around.

I myself have been to 'humane' farms and witnessed what they're like - far from the pretty pictures on the advertising. The 'free-range' egg farm where we (lawfully) rescued 10,000 hens was merely a PACKED FULL near pitch-black barn with filthy bars for a floor, a horrible smell and a lot of fighting and pecking and scratching each other going on - this is what's called 'humane' and 'compassionate'.

Another problem with raising welfare standards is that when the price of a product goes up, people will look elsewhere for cheaper products. There becomes this greater demand in the market, and cheap imports fill the shelves, with even lower welfare standards than those at home.

Improving welfare standards is counter-productive, 'humane' farming is serious false advertising (should be illegal) and the only thing that these 'compassionately' grown slabs of meat, cartons of milk and boxes of eggs save is the consumer's conscience.

The only real solution is to go vegan and stop giving the farmers money. If enough people did this, they'd all run completely out of business. It's healthy and good for the environment, too.

Answer 7

I am not vegetarian or vegan but only eat free range meat so i know the animals have been treated fairly.

Answer 8

no, i would not eat it if they were humanley treted, because they still would have died for someones tastebuds.

Answer 9

you are right most people have no idea what is REALLy going on in these slaughter houses and they dont want to know so that they dont feel guilty when they continue to eat meat! what is going on in these slaughter houses is absoulty HORRIABLE! im a vegeterian now because of the curelty being done to inncocent animals! i think that even if they did kill the animals"humanly" i would still not eat them just because i dont think a animal should have to end its life just so i can eat wings or a good steak! its absterb! when there are PLENTLY of other foods out there that i could eat. its not right! ooo and i dont know about this free range...u should reasearch free range! its not like you think.

Answer 10

I think you'll find most vegetarians do not share you view on what is "humane".

To most veggies, killing an animal, regardless of how well its treated before hand, is a tad cruel.

Would it be ok if i killed you tomorrow provided that i was nice to you today ?

The true cost of meat if animals were well treated is well documented, there has been numerous reseaches into the subject.

Beef would cost about £30 ( $60) lb

Eggs about £8 ( $16) for 6

milk about £5 ( $10 ) per pint

People have been conditioned into thinking "meat and dairy are cheap" because of the intensification of farming since 1950.

There is no going back from that without sustained education for the next 50 years. It would also require the reduction of population growth in unsustainable areas - that is just a nonsense that has to stop.

Many people claim they eat organic or free range but the statistics show otherwise.

Answer 11

That's sort of a hard question to answer as I'm a vegan for a variety of reasons..it's not exclusive to cruelty, though that is a large part of it.

No, I wouldn't.

I think that meat is detrimental to humans' health and I still wouldn't consume it.

Answer 12

I think you are mistaken to assume that most people don't know where their food comes from or how it got there. maybe because you are thinking in Western terms with a western mindset. More than 87% of the worlds population do not come from the West and their values and economic situation is a lot different.

What strikes me as funny with most answers is that they relate animals with people. "What if I kill you..." and "What if your mother...". That is utterly ridiculous.  Reminds me of PETA and the "your mother is a murderer" comic book campaign. Might work on on prepubescent children but not with people with mroe sense.

Answer 13

vegan. i just think its gross to eat something that bleeds.  

Answer 14

Vegan.

No, I wouldn't eat it if the animal was treated humanely. It's still taking a life for my own personal benefit (which I don't really need)