Do you think eating meat is right?

I like the "animals are life, plants are life" argument. No matter what, we can't escape destroying life for sustenance. Unless of course we live off dairy like some sadhus in India purportedly do.foxhound_fox

Meat is Murder as Morrissey has said many a time before.

But it sure tastes good.

Murj

Morrissey is a total douche. But I do love his music so.

And even than, there are those who find it morally wrong to eat ANYTHING that is from animals.Link256

It's how we treat the animals to get our meat. Given, animals hunt one another out there, but even then, their way to get their food is less cruel than the companies that we own.

However, eating meat is not "wrong". I assume that we eat meat to gain sufficient nutrients and the like. That's why other animals eat other animals... To help sustain themselves. Yes, it sounds selfish but we were born with a stomach, that needs a few different things and meat happens to be one of the most efficient ways to obtain such elements, for a reason. We were obviously meant to eat each other.

Technically, we could eat one another... It may be more productive if we did... We're not going to become extinct any time soon and we are facing an over population problem--Eating the 'freshly dead' would provide more space for things... We are, in the end, a 'natural resource'. Odd how we have a superiority complex that makes us believethat we are not qualified to be used as a resource (arguable... Slaves were used for personal gain but, back then, they weren't considered as "a person"). But, no, that's sick because society says so.

And, really...

Many people, both religious and non religous, believe that eating meat is morally wrong.

I for one believe that we have the power and right to manipulate them into a source of vital nutrients, as the superior species of this world.

And you, OT?

LiftedHeadshot

"Superiority Complex" always ends in one way and one way only: sh*t

It sucks for the animals that have to grow up in cages and spend their entire lives suffering in horrible living conditions. I don't think any life should have to suffer for it's entire lifespan then ultimately cease to exist - but unfortunately that's the way the world works. Nothing I can do to change that so I instead try not to think about it too much.

And yes I eat meat - mostly because that's the lifestyle I'm accustomed to and I can't be bothered to change.

Uh, yeah it is. Considering that our bodies are designed to eat meat, I don't see the problem with it at all.

no i dont think eating meat is right

Right and delicious. These teeth are made for shredding the flesh of domesticated farm animals, and that's just what they'll do....pis3rch

[QUOTE="pis3rch"]Right and delicious. These teeth are made for shredding the flesh of domesticated farm animals, and that's just what they'll do....EMOEVOLUTION

The bible describes eating too much meat as lustful. Too much meat is not healthy for the body because it increases testosterone thus increasing sex drive and also makes the body vulnerableto various sources of infections.

However what I don't understand is that if God didn't want us to eat meat then why on earthwould he make animals out of meat?

[QUOTE="ProjectTrinity"]If eating meat is wrong, so is eating plants. They both are alive, after all. The point of nature is to fight or become a meal so other species can survive. I think the "morals" thing comes from people who forgot how nature runs things.GabuEx

Kinda depends on who you are. Plants are (mostly) all peaceful and live and let live; they don't need to deprive others of sustenance to survive. It's only we animals who for whatever reason felt we had to be jerks to everyone as a part of life. :P

domesticated farm animals.. are destroying our ecosystem.. its really inefficient source of food and impractical to sustain. We can eat meat.. but should do so on a much smaller scale.EMOEVOLUTION

Eating animal is wrong for the environment and, in a distant future, I think we will have to stop eating meat. Don't forget that 1 hectare give 50kg of meat, while this same hectare will give 1 tonne of potatoes. This is why eating meat is so rare in India for example, the gouvernment prefer to help the farmers to produce fruits and vegetable and use the religion and publicity to make vegetarism more socially acceptable.

Anyway, for now, let's enjoy it:

Only for the eyes :oops:

Natural yes but immoral, slightly. Nature doesnt provide us with much alternative and long term vegetarianism is not healthy. I dont believe a cow would consent to being mutilated either and most people wouldnt consider it moral to eat their own pets or kill what they eat so it becomes immoral hypocrisy. We should be sharing the land with nature not eating it. The necessity cancels out immorality because its neede to survive but there are exceptions so i cant say that its 100% moral but mostly moral.

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Of course I do. Animals taste too damn good for it not to be right.

tofu-lion91

I like to eat it. That is enough reason for me.

I don't care. It's YUMMY!

These teeth are made for shredding the flesh of domesticated farm animals, and that's just what they'll do....pis3rch

Four of your teeth. Your molars are decidedly herbivorous in nature.

I think eating meat is okay.

[QUOTE="pis3rch"]These teeth are made for shredding the flesh of domesticated farm animals, and that's just what they'll do....GabuEx

Four of your teeth. Your molars are decidedly herbivorous in nature.

Eating animal is wrong for the environment and, in a distant future, I think we will have to stop eating meat. Don't forget that 1 hectare give 50kg of meat, while this same hectare will give 1 tonne of potatoes. This is why eating meat is so rare in India for example, the gouvernment prefer to help the farmers to produce fruits and vegetable and use the religion and publicity to make vegetarism more socially acceptable.Franko_3

I don't know if I would exactly say right, but for current purposes it will do, no I don't think it's right. I think it's not a necessity, we can get along fairly well without it, and in many cases excessive consumption is actually detrimental to our health, so I don't really see the reason. That being said, I have personally acquired a taste for blood and I can't go back, I at least try to avoid eating pork. Whereas chickens and cows are very low-functioning animals, pigs are highly intelligent,I feel a little worse eating them.

Of course I do. Animals taste too damn good for it not to be right.

Pirate700

Screwing married women feels right, but apparantly it's not.

HECK YEAH!!!!!

I don't eat meat, and I don't feel comfortable with the whole idea.

I'm not a radical hippie vegetarian, though, and I don't tell people that they are going to h*** because they eat meat.

If eating meat was "wrong", one would imagine that there wouldn't be so many carnivorous animals in nature.

GabuEx

But... We trained a lion to eat tofu.

It's not "right" but it's not "wrong". It's amoral.

I think eating meat is a part of being human.

I think people know my stance on eating meat.

[QUOTE="EMOEVOLUTION"] domesticated farm animals.. are destroying our ecosystem.. its really inefficient source of food and impractical to sustain. We can eat meat.. but should do so on a much smaller scale.foxhound_fox

No, it's not wrong, it's nature. Animals eat other animals, too, and us humans ARE animals.

If you do not like to eat animals, then that is a personal choice and an understandable one, but for those that like eating meat, they are not doing any wrong by doing so.

Since right and wrong do not objectively exist, it's about as right as cannibalism. Social acceptability-wise, it is right unless if it's eating a pet.

Yes, they were provided for us to eat and get protein.

Cows are like plants with small brains and meat. Cows only eat and poop. Plants only do photosynthesis.

It's not a matter of "right or wrong" for me, it's a matter of "tasty or not tasty"

Of course I do.. meat is the greatest thing Ever!!!

Yes. Most animals eat other animals to survive. Though we can substitute, I still enjoy eating the real thing. Only wrong I see is when humans cultivate other animals at a large production to be slaughtered. I know that's how we are able to survive, I still don't like the method...tocool340