What are your views on killing animals for their flesh (meat) ?

Question

my personal view is : its wrong for anything to feel that much pain and be killed for such a pointless purpose

Answer 1

I think eating meat, as well as other animal products, is unnecessary exploitation.  I can't justify causing pain, suffering, and death for the sake of my palate - ever.  I don't think eating meat or animal products should be a personal choice; killing other humans and companion animals isn't a choice, so it shouldn't be any different for other animals.

Murder can never be humane nor justifiable.

Answer 2

I think killing animals is inhumane and cruel and wrong.I hope one day i can become a vegan so i don't have to be involved in the killing of animals in anyway :)

EDIT: Well actually we are much more like herbivores. Take the evidence foud on intestinal tracts - they are much more similar to that of herbivores. Even if we were meant to eat meat i am totally against the slaughtering of animals that put them through such painful processes and the ways they are kept before slaughter - it is CRUEELLLL

Answer 3

Radstar asked: What are your canine teeth for?

"It’s amazing how many seemingly intelligent people, to justify their meat-eating, open their mouths, point at their teeth, and say something about “canines” as a means of defending a habit that is ecologically devastating, cruel to animals, and likely to kill them. Putting aside how different human “canines” are from the canine teeth of carnivores (I really wonder if these people have ever even looked at the long, dagger-like canines of a dog or a tiger), every natural meat eater has an array of other physiological properties that do not mirror ours. For example, unlike humans, all natural meat-eaters, such as dogs and rats, manufacture their own vitamin C, whereas we need to consume vitamin C in fruits and vegetables. True meat eaters perspire through their tongues rather than through their skin. Natural meat-eaters have sharp, pointy front teeth, sharp and jagged molars, and a tooth-bone density that’s many times greater than that of humans, which enables them to crunch through the bones of their prey. Carnivores have no digestive enzymes in their saliva at all, and their digestive acids are many times more acidic than those of humans, so the bacteria from rotting flesh won’t kill them. Natural meat-eaters have jaws that move only vertically, instead of in a grinding motion as ours do, and they don’t chew their food—they just rip and swallow. Meat eaters have claws to rip their prey apart instead of sensitive fingers for plucking. They have intestinal tracts that are only three times their body length, which enables them to eject rotting flesh quickly. No matter how much saturated fat and cholesterol they consume, natural meat-eaters never develop atherosclerosis, the heart disease that consistently kills more human beings in the industrialized world than any other cause of death. And the list of physiological differences between humans and natural meat-eaters goes on and on."

(source: http://www.goveg.com/veganism_health.asp...

Radstar asked: What else would we do with them?

Well for one thing, if people stop eating meat then the demand will go way down. Once the demand starts going down, they will start producing less. Because they are producing less, there will not be an overpopulation of animals and cows, chickens and pigs will certainly not overpopulate the earth. Instead they will live happily amongst themselves, not neccessarily in the wild (since they don't have any defense mechanisms) but away from the humans' grasp.

Anyways to answer your question, nowadays there are so many choices and we don't need meat to survive. In fact, we don't need meat to be healthy...we can be healthy and just fine without it. I understand in the "old days" when they had hardly anything and meat was their only option, but now we can move on. I don't have a problem with meat eaters, I just have a problem with the way we raise and slaughter animals. And since it is done so inhumanely and there seems to be no way around it, I perfer to avoid the whole thing. But I still am convinced that we weren't meant to eat meat, don't need meat and certainly don't need to be so violent towards animals.

PS. I am not some crazy animal activist, sorry if it seems that way :)

Answer 4

Its fine.

Answer 5

we are dominent over all animals and is our given right to consume them,

Answer 6

If you haven't, I'd recommend watching the movie Fast Food Nation, and reading the book Diet for a Small Planet.  It'll give you even more ammo for your stance against eating meat.  It is the smart way to live.

If only I did too.  I am a meat eater, and I can't stand fish, and I really am not crazy about chicken.  That leaves cows, pigs, and lambs for me.  

I used to be vegetarian, but I had so many health problems...I actually started eating meat again to remove the problems.

If it makes you feel any better, we all feel pain when we die, and we are all food for another being:  Humans are food for bacteria, bugs, and worms when we die, and I'd be lying if I said that we humans don't die painful deaths.  Just as us feeding the worms is pointless, so is the death of anything to feed us.

It is still the right thing to not eat too much meat...all around.  Good for the environment, good for your body.

Answer 7

There is no law in the universe that says we must not eat meat or be moral or anything else.

I choose not to eat meat because I am not comfortable contributing to the slaughter of sentient beings.  Some people say it is ok because they were only brought into existence for that purpose, but that is like a paedophile saying they only had their children for such purposes.

Answer 8

It's a h**l of a lot more justified than killing babies for convenience....a practice approved of by many of the same people who find eating meat to be abhorrent.

Insane.

Answer 9

It's unnecessary.  There's a world of beans, nuts and seeds out there, after all.

Answer 10

I'm cool on that. I also wear leather shoes and have two leather jackets. It's OK, I'm going to h**l anyway!

Now how do you feel about the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan? Those starving in Darfur/ Zimbabwe/ Burma?

Answer 11

God gave man dominion over the beasts of the field to use as man saw fit to do so. But even though I do enjoy a good steak, I do sometimes wonder if killing animals for food is wrong.

Answer 12

That's what farming's all about.

Answer 13

i eat meat...while i do not approve of factory farming....I'm not against hunting animals in the wild...where they are killed instantaneously by a single bullet....no pain...no fear which is far better than being ripped apart by predators in the wild

this kind of meat consumption also eliminates all the c**p that is pumped into meat nowadays

Answer 14

Even though I don`t eat red meat I still know we are meat eaters and thats what we have always done.

Answer 15

It's wrong and unnecessary. There are plenty of more humane alternatives. Why inflict death and suffering when it can so easily be prevented.

Answer 16

It's so wrong.

Ever since I was a young little girl, around 4 years old (when I realised chicken and pork came from an animal) I knew it was wrong and refused to eat it.

Then during my childhood I had family members shoving bits of meat in my face trying to force me to eat it.

Some people say it's "normal and right" to kill animals. Wtf?!

No it isn't! You wouldn't walk into someones back yard ... open their rabbit cage and stun the rabbit with a gun, would you? Then calve off it's skin and eat the remains.

It's just disgusting, earlier this year, I literally forced myself to watch a programme on BBC3 called "Kill it, Cook it, Eat it" I was in tears by the end of it - and I don't mind admitting it.

Even the presenter had to hide her look of disgust as she is supposed to be an "unbias" reporter.

Answer 17

my answer: is that people shouldn't slaughter animals for there meat or flesh.you shouldn't kill anything for your personal purpose

my friends answer:her view  that what is the point of cannibalism when your eating another living beings flesh she finds it very disgusting on how there killed and treated

p.s I'm on the phone with  my friend write now

Answer 18

I think it´s ok but what really annoys me is the quantity of meat most people eat. We don´t need to eat meat for every meal. If everyone ate meat even just once a day there would be no need for factory farming and we´d all be healthier.

Answer 19

only to survive.

to sustain my self i will kill to eat, but not if vegetables are plentiful.

to protect my self and other i will kill.

mercy is only viable when you are not about to die.

Answer 20

I feel very strongly that if we are to kill for food and eat meat, then that animal must firstly have been raised to the highest possible welfare standards, so it has had a good life. Secondly the manner of its death must be as stress free and painless as possible, and finally we must give respect to the end product (the meat) by ensuring we use it well, in terms of not wasting it.

We have become isolated from the food production process in the UK, and plastic packaged meat hides the realities of a meat production system that often falls far short of the ideals set out above. While it can be expensive, finding a supplier of quality meat is not hard. Many good Butchers will be able to tell you where their meat is from and how it was raised. Try that with your local supermarket.

Eating meat is a choice, and I fully understand and respect those who choose not to do so, but we who do should respect the animals we eat. Just as the "Chicken Out" TV programmes showed how variable standards can be for chickens, so can it be for other animals too. I would like us all to be able to make positive choices over animal welfare when we choose to eat meat, but with supermarkets that is not always possible.

Answer 21

It's gross exploitation.

Answer 22

Necessary evil. Something dies, I live, The world keeps turning

Answer 23

I am vegetarian because I simply cannot bring myself to eat the animals I love so much. How could anyone?

But the main thing to focus on at the moment, rather than converting everyone, is trying to improve the living standards of the animals. This is where the suffering lies, death could well be a welcome relief to a lot of animals out there.

Answer 24

Yum, yum!

What else would we do with them? (kill them all because they are not required?)  Would cattle/poultry be reared for anything else?

What are your canine teeth for?