Vegetarians/vegans help, no amateurs ?

Question

i dont get why people have kosher/blessed food

and things along those lines ?

i dont get the difference?!

its meat.. either way you look at it or how its even raised,

it comes from a living animal, and theyre going to eat it

who cares how its raised or been blessed, if you dont wanna eat 'normal' meat then blessing isnt gonna be much difference ?

- or do i just not got the situations?

Answer 1

i don't eat any meat at all so I'm just guessing...the animals live a better life and that makes the people feel better but i don't really know

Answer 2

well i don't eat meat

but everyone else in my family does

they mainly buy "blessed" meat because it doesn't have a lot of toxins or whatever in it

the difference is that non "blessed" meat comes from slaughter houses where animals most likely have diseases and are treated horrible

but, im assuming, blessed meat comes from animals who were treated better

but to me, meat is meat

no matter how good the animal was raised

youre eating an animal who had no reason to die

except for hunger relief

i really dont see why companies claim to have blessed food

when all the animals

die the same

Answer 3

Well, being a vegan is a bit like being a Christian or a Jew, you are being religious in your views. All religions differ and each one will tell you their religion is the correct faith, but are they right!!

Answer 4

I agree with you actually, and here's why:

I think a lot of people want to eat only kosher/blessed meat because supposedly the animal was handled and slaughtered in a more "humane" way, supposedly without torture like the other animals.

However this is not the case, even if some "kosher" slaughterhouses do stick to the guidelines of how to slaughter an animal "cleanly and without torture and humiliation", it's certain that not all of them do and nobody knows the exact percentage of these places that do not stick to the guidelines.

Also, even if the animals were slaughtered "humanely", how were they raised?  And dairy... all dairy cows and egg layers with hardly any exception (even the "organic" ones) are treated very badly and tortured to a rediculous extent, I'm not trying to be extreme here, just truthful.  Cows must have a baby in order to produce milk, and the babies are taken away and we drink the milk instead.  Even "organic" cows are confined to small cells where they can't even turn around and have all sorts of infections and have to be continuously treated with antibiotics to keep the infections at bay.  Even organic and "free range" egg layers are often (not always but often) crammed into small areas and in a dangerous and filthy environment.  Kosher places often don't follow the guidelines for things that are supposed to be kosher, so there's no way to flat-out trust when something is labelled as kosher.

I think the only way to avoid it all is to be vegan, just don't consume the sketchy stuff in the first place :)  We live in a privaledged age where we can get all our nutrition without having to eat aminals and their products, so why not?

edit:  btw, animal/animal-product consuming is just as much of a religion as veganism is.  It goes both ways.  However I don't think either qualify as a religion because you can be either without having anything to do with the supernatural, and I think that belief in the supernatural is what defines something as being a religion.  Veganism is another way of life, not a religion.  I think that people call it a religion when they are trying to demonize it.

peace.

Answer 5

It's a religious thing.  And for the record, I've seen the way "kosher" meat is slaughtered and it's ten times more cruelly done than non-kosher.  I was only halfway through watching it and was ready to vomit.

Answer 6

I don't quite get it either :/