Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.Why do other people don't eat meat?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(Why do other people don't eat meat?),it will help you,my kids.
Answer:
They would rather be healthy. Beings meant to eat meat have huge teeth like tigers. Others are meant to be vegetarians.
I personally don't eat meat, because I feel it is morally wrong.
I used to be a vegetarian for five years because:
There is plenty to eat without killing animals; it just isn't necessary.
When I had my first son, I began to eat meat. I still am leary about meat just because I know chickens pick and wallow in its own feces and urine. And pork has tapeworms and I never know if it is cooked enough. And beef can be eating other meat unnaturally.
I eat meat...but know a vegan...she doesn't like the way the animals are killed. Sometimes it's inhumane. Personally I think that since we've been eating animals since...forever...that there's no reason to stop now. The same people who don't eat meat because of what the pig or chicken steps in or eats, are the people who live in a home that wreaks of bleach and their kids can't play on the swingset at the park because little Johnny over there was playing in the sand and then got on the swing before their kid did. And who knows what's in that sand...they're the ones who sit in starbucks talking philosophy junk and drink their soy decaf latte and get in the way of my caramel macchiato. but really it has alot to do with how they want to be perceived. But you form your own opinion and keep mine in the back of your mind :)
I don't want animals to die so that I may eat!!! I think that meat tastes vile too!!!
Because they are just Fat penguins that think that they will get skinny from not eating meat,lol
(no afense vegys)
i dont eat meat because animals are living things but they dont have a voice to tell people to stop killing them so i like to be their voice and not eat them
Some people choose not to eat meat for mainly one of three reasons or all of the three reasons--morals, health, and environment/the world. Morals, of course, deals with the inhumane way that animals are treated. Every living creature deserves to be free and live a full and happy life. Before anyone brings up "animals eat other animals," I will just say right now that animals also reproduce with their siblings, but humans generally do not. What I am trying to say is we, as humans, are the more intelligent and evolved group of the animals and should be able to reason what is right and what is wrong. We also do not have carnivorous teeth. The second reason, health, involves wishing to stay away from the diseases that flesh carries. It is just a heart attack waiting to happen. The hormones and chemicals that are in your food that you do not even know about are affecting your health greatly. There are foods where one can achieve as much if not more protein than meat holds. Eating meat is also bad for the environment. The more land that is needed for farms, the more the rainforests are chopped down. I might also add that the grain used to feed the farmed animals COULD be used to feed the starving people of the world. There are so many reasons, and I only touched on them. If you desire to know more, there are many factual websites about what is going in your body each time you consume meat and what it is doing to our planet.
P.S.: Amanda J, just because we have been "eating animals since forever," doesn't mean that it was or is right. Keep in mind that the people that owned slaves before civil rights thought that since they have been "keeping slaves since forever," there was no reason to stop. Minds change as we become more developed and understand more of the world and what is right. If there is no room for change, there is no room for a future. I would also like to add that I am one of those people drinking those soy lattes, and I am quite proud :).
To everyone else flaming me: I am not trying to force you to convert, so don't get all uptight. I was just explaining why most people are vegetarians and why I am a vegetarian. It doesn't matter who owned or sold slaves, the point is that it was wrong and laws were changed because of that fact. Also, I understand the point about animals dieing painfully in the wild, but humans also have a risk of dieing by nature as well. I think most people would choose the risk of getting attacked by a bear when they are camping rather than living in hell in a cramped up cage, being pumped with chemicals, electricially shocked, having their throats slit, having broken limbs from not having the freedom and ability to move...or worse yet...watching and knowing that their child is going through that. Maybe that's just me. If you believe the myth that "animals are put quietly to sleep" before they're on your dinner plate, think again. Here is where your food is truely coming from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcn7svpi2...
Watch and learn before you think that what they go through is painless or even minor pain.
I don't eat meat becuase I don't like it...not becuase I want to save the animals which by the way God put on this earth for us to eat.
hey housesoft,the slaves were sold by the slave brokers who also happened to be black,thats right it was black people selling other black people.Also the grain that is feed to animals is entirely different than the grain for human consumption,however if you want to feed the starving children animal food hey go for it,glad i am not starving.
@ BrendaWise, no sensible vegans can ever contest that we were deigned to eat meat. Even the most ardent vegan scientists agree that human's are designed to eat meat, that is not in question.
That we do not have claws, talons, or incisors to hunt proves nothing. When early hominids ate meat they scavenged it, as vultures do, using their fingers to get the sinews and meat other animals couldn't. It was only after that that they began to hunt the meat themselves, and only much later they began to cook it. It is interesting that even now if someone was brought up eating raw meat he would have no problem with it.
The last few million years of human evolution have revolved completely around tools. We used advanced stone tools long before we began to hunt our own meat, and as such there was no need for evolution to bestow us with large claws or teeth to kill prey.
Simple research into human biology reveals how we are meant to eat meat. For one thing, our body produces hydrochloric acid and meat splitting enzymes that herbivores don't produce and are solely used for the digestion of meat. There are adaptations to our teeth (not our incisors, rather the size of our jaw), stomach and intestines which have made a human being very adept at meat digestion. There is nothing wrong with the way our body digests meat, and we are so adept at eating it no scientists are of any doubt we've evolved to eat it.
On the other hand, not all nutrients that humans need for life can be got naturally on a diet without meat (ie without supplements or fortified foods), which is ample proof that we aren't herbivores.
@ Housesoftheholy90, are you aware that the quality of life for domesticated animals is almost invariably better that their 'free' counterparts. Wild animals almost always lead lives blighted by hardship and almost always die violently and/or painfully, be it from another animal, disease or accident. Animals never get a chance to die of old age as the old and weak get killed by other animals and are more susceptible to diseases.
Compare this to the 'captive' animals who get veterinary care, protection from predators and a constant supply of food, and then a quick and painless death when it comes to slaughter (even if it goes wrong and isn't painless it'd still be less painful than being eaten by wolves).
As for the hormones and chemicals in meat, are they any worse that the chemicals sprayed on plants? No, but even if they were it'd be an argument against the use of hormones and chemicals in meat production rather than eating meat. Here in the UK both the use of hormones, antibiotics and chemicals and the sale of contaminated meat is illegal, maybe you yanks should do the same.
As for heart disease, evidence shows no direct link between meat itself and coronary diseases, nor its 'cause' (albeit a misnomer) cholesterol.
Your body on average creates four to five times more cholesterol than the average person consumes, and compensates by creating more when less is consumed. Cholesterol isn't evil, it is essential; it makes up the waterproof linings of all our cells and without it we would die. Too much can be bad, but as with saturated fats there are more healthy ways of disposing of it, like regular exercise. Anyway, it isn't so much how much cholesterol you eat, but how well your body handles it. A person who eats loads of dietary cholesterol and leads an unhealthy lifestyle can still have low cholesterol, and vice versa. Most people's bodies are able to take a large amount of cholesterol without getting atherosclerosis. For this reason that eating meat gives you heart disease is very misleading, and for the most part untrue. Of course, if you do have a problem eating loads isn't a good idea, but for most people there is nothing at all to worry about.
Meat eating is never bad for health, contrary to what PETA say. While there is, for example, some evidence that vegans live longer or are at less risk from cancer and heart disease; those studies show only a reasonably small difference, nothing like the figures so oft quoted, and none of those studies have yet managed to identify meat as the only variable. Veggies are less likely to smoke, drink or eat junk food, and eat a wider range of fruit and veg, making the test results inaccurate and unreliable.
Interestingly the studies which have best taken the above variables into account have shown that meat eaters aren't at any more risk of various diseases than veggies, like some cancers or heart disease, and in some cases at less risk.
I'd also like to point out that no meat procured in rainforest territory is exported to the USA or Europe, due to inferior quality, among other things, so there isn't even any guilt by association as far as the rainforest ranches are concerned. On the other hand vast swathes of the rainforest are cut down to grow soy, which is exported to the USA or Europe.
The grain used to feed animals couldn't feed the starving people of the world, not least because there is already much more excess food in the world than would be needed to feed them. The problem is not that there isn't food, but that they in their impoverished countries can't afford to buy it, especially if their harvest failed and food needs to be imported.
And even if that wasn't the case, do you have any idea how bad giving them free food would be to their economy? No one would pay for the food grown by their own farmers, with all this free stuff floating around (I know I wouldn't), so the farmers and everyone connected with the food industry (which is always a huge employer in LEDCs) would go bankrupt. This would destroy the country's economy and make the people even poorer.
some people become vegetarian or vegans for health reasons. others it is a different story they might think that killing an animal and eating it is morally wrong or in humane. To some they might feel sorry for the animals dieing and then being eaten. i personally try not to think about those facts. because being someone who eats meat i do like it and i do not like to think about the animal it once was while i am eating it for two reasons; 1 being because it might make me spew and 2 being it would make me sad. see now i feel bad already. bye thx for the 2 points.
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Kitty said: Yes.Why do other people don't eat meat?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(Why do other people don't eat meat?),it will help you,my kids.
Answer:
They would rather be healthy. Beings meant to eat meat have huge teeth like tigers. Others are meant to be vegetarians.
I personally don't eat meat, because I feel it is morally wrong.
I used to be a vegetarian for five years because:
There is plenty to eat without killing animals; it just isn't necessary.
When I had my first son, I began to eat meat. I still am leary about meat just because I know chickens pick and wallow in its own feces and urine. And pork has tapeworms and I never know if it is cooked enough. And beef can be eating other meat unnaturally.
I eat meat...but know a vegan...she doesn't like the way the animals are killed. Sometimes it's inhumane. Personally I think that since we've been eating animals since...forever...that there's no reason to stop now. The same people who don't eat meat because of what the pig or chicken steps in or eats, are the people who live in a home that wreaks of bleach and their kids can't play on the swingset at the park because little Johnny over there was playing in the sand and then got on the swing before their kid did. And who knows what's in that sand...they're the ones who sit in starbucks talking philosophy junk and drink their soy decaf latte and get in the way of my caramel macchiato. but really it has alot to do with how they want to be perceived. But you form your own opinion and keep mine in the back of your mind :)
I don't want animals to die so that I may eat!!! I think that meat tastes vile too!!!
Because they are just Fat penguins that think that they will get skinny from not eating meat,lol
(no afense vegys)
i dont eat meat because animals are living things but they dont have a voice to tell people to stop killing them so i like to be their voice and not eat them
Some people choose not to eat meat for mainly one of three reasons or all of the three reasons--morals, health, and environment/the world. Morals, of course, deals with the inhumane way that animals are treated. Every living creature deserves to be free and live a full and happy life. Before anyone brings up "animals eat other animals," I will just say right now that animals also reproduce with their siblings, but humans generally do not. What I am trying to say is we, as humans, are the more intelligent and evolved group of the animals and should be able to reason what is right and what is wrong. We also do not have carnivorous teeth. The second reason, health, involves wishing to stay away from the diseases that flesh carries. It is just a heart attack waiting to happen. The hormones and chemicals that are in your food that you do not even know about are affecting your health greatly. There are foods where one can achieve as much if not more protein than meat holds. Eating meat is also bad for the environment. The more land that is needed for farms, the more the rainforests are chopped down. I might also add that the grain used to feed the farmed animals COULD be used to feed the starving people of the world. There are so many reasons, and I only touched on them. If you desire to know more, there are many factual websites about what is going in your body each time you consume meat and what it is doing to our planet.
P.S.: Amanda J, just because we have been "eating animals since forever," doesn't mean that it was or is right. Keep in mind that the people that owned slaves before civil rights thought that since they have been "keeping slaves since forever," there was no reason to stop. Minds change as we become more developed and understand more of the world and what is right. If there is no room for change, there is no room for a future. I would also like to add that I am one of those people drinking those soy lattes, and I am quite proud :).
To everyone else flaming me: I am not trying to force you to convert, so don't get all uptight. I was just explaining why most people are vegetarians and why I am a vegetarian. It doesn't matter who owned or sold slaves, the point is that it was wrong and laws were changed because of that fact. Also, I understand the point about animals dieing painfully in the wild, but humans also have a risk of dieing by nature as well. I think most people would choose the risk of getting attacked by a bear when they are camping rather than living in hell in a cramped up cage, being pumped with chemicals, electricially shocked, having their throats slit, having broken limbs from not having the freedom and ability to move...or worse yet...watching and knowing that their child is going through that. Maybe that's just me. If you believe the myth that "animals are put quietly to sleep" before they're on your dinner plate, think again. Here is where your food is truely coming from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcn7svpi2...
Watch and learn before you think that what they go through is painless or even minor pain.
I don't eat meat becuase I don't like it...not becuase I want to save the animals which by the way God put on this earth for us to eat.
hey housesoft,the slaves were sold by the slave brokers who also happened to be black,thats right it was black people selling other black people.Also the grain that is feed to animals is entirely different than the grain for human consumption,however if you want to feed the starving children animal food hey go for it,glad i am not starving.
@ BrendaWise, no sensible vegans can ever contest that we were deigned to eat meat. Even the most ardent vegan scientists agree that human's are designed to eat meat, that is not in question.
That we do not have claws, talons, or incisors to hunt proves nothing. When early hominids ate meat they scavenged it, as vultures do, using their fingers to get the sinews and meat other animals couldn't. It was only after that that they began to hunt the meat themselves, and only much later they began to cook it. It is interesting that even now if someone was brought up eating raw meat he would have no problem with it.
The last few million years of human evolution have revolved completely around tools. We used advanced stone tools long before we began to hunt our own meat, and as such there was no need for evolution to bestow us with large claws or teeth to kill prey.
Simple research into human biology reveals how we are meant to eat meat. For one thing, our body produces hydrochloric acid and meat splitting enzymes that herbivores don't produce and are solely used for the digestion of meat. There are adaptations to our teeth (not our incisors, rather the size of our jaw), stomach and intestines which have made a human being very adept at meat digestion. There is nothing wrong with the way our body digests meat, and we are so adept at eating it no scientists are of any doubt we've evolved to eat it.
On the other hand, not all nutrients that humans need for life can be got naturally on a diet without meat (ie without supplements or fortified foods), which is ample proof that we aren't herbivores.
@ Housesoftheholy90, are you aware that the quality of life for domesticated animals is almost invariably better that their 'free' counterparts. Wild animals almost always lead lives blighted by hardship and almost always die violently and/or painfully, be it from another animal, disease or accident. Animals never get a chance to die of old age as the old and weak get killed by other animals and are more susceptible to diseases.
Compare this to the 'captive' animals who get veterinary care, protection from predators and a constant supply of food, and then a quick and painless death when it comes to slaughter (even if it goes wrong and isn't painless it'd still be less painful than being eaten by wolves).
As for the hormones and chemicals in meat, are they any worse that the chemicals sprayed on plants? No, but even if they were it'd be an argument against the use of hormones and chemicals in meat production rather than eating meat. Here in the UK both the use of hormones, antibiotics and chemicals and the sale of contaminated meat is illegal, maybe you yanks should do the same.
As for heart disease, evidence shows no direct link between meat itself and coronary diseases, nor its 'cause' (albeit a misnomer) cholesterol.
Your body on average creates four to five times more cholesterol than the average person consumes, and compensates by creating more when less is consumed. Cholesterol isn't evil, it is essential; it makes up the waterproof linings of all our cells and without it we would die. Too much can be bad, but as with saturated fats there are more healthy ways of disposing of it, like regular exercise. Anyway, it isn't so much how much cholesterol you eat, but how well your body handles it. A person who eats loads of dietary cholesterol and leads an unhealthy lifestyle can still have low cholesterol, and vice versa. Most people's bodies are able to take a large amount of cholesterol without getting atherosclerosis. For this reason that eating meat gives you heart disease is very misleading, and for the most part untrue. Of course, if you do have a problem eating loads isn't a good idea, but for most people there is nothing at all to worry about.
Meat eating is never bad for health, contrary to what PETA say. While there is, for example, some evidence that vegans live longer or are at less risk from cancer and heart disease; those studies show only a reasonably small difference, nothing like the figures so oft quoted, and none of those studies have yet managed to identify meat as the only variable. Veggies are less likely to smoke, drink or eat junk food, and eat a wider range of fruit and veg, making the test results inaccurate and unreliable.
Interestingly the studies which have best taken the above variables into account have shown that meat eaters aren't at any more risk of various diseases than veggies, like some cancers or heart disease, and in some cases at less risk.
I'd also like to point out that no meat procured in rainforest territory is exported to the USA or Europe, due to inferior quality, among other things, so there isn't even any guilt by association as far as the rainforest ranches are concerned. On the other hand vast swathes of the rainforest are cut down to grow soy, which is exported to the USA or Europe.
The grain used to feed animals couldn't feed the starving people of the world, not least because there is already much more excess food in the world than would be needed to feed them. The problem is not that there isn't food, but that they in their impoverished countries can't afford to buy it, especially if their harvest failed and food needs to be imported.
And even if that wasn't the case, do you have any idea how bad giving them free food would be to their economy? No one would pay for the food grown by their own farmers, with all this free stuff floating around (I know I wouldn't), so the farmers and everyone connected with the food industry (which is always a huge employer in LEDCs) would go bankrupt. This would destroy the country's economy and make the people even poorer.
some people become vegetarian or vegans for health reasons. others it is a different story they might think that killing an animal and eating it is morally wrong or in humane. To some they might feel sorry for the animals dieing and then being eaten. i personally try not to think about those facts. because being someone who eats meat i do like it and i do not like to think about the animal it once was while i am eating it for two reasons; 1 being because it might make me spew and 2 being it would make me sad. see now i feel bad already. bye thx for the 2 points.
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