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by Lovehearts on July 7th, 2009
I think the way a lot of animals are treated before they're slaughtered is extremely cruel.
An animal is an animal. You wouldn't want your pets living in those types of conditions.
I never understand why people get so upset about the eating of dogs, or whatever. When they don't care about pigs. Or cows. Or chickens.
I just feel like everyone should take an interest in what they eat, and how it's produced.
I don't find the actual eating of meat cruel, but if you don't bother to find out what kind of life the animal that you're eating has had, it's just uninformed.
I've got no problem with organic farming, and even just bloody average conditions.
by Eneov on July 7th, 2009
No i do not, i think eating meat is natural. If i need to eat and somthing is lower than me on the food chain. you'd better believe i'm gona fire up the grill!
i'm too addicted to barbicue to ever swear off meat :P
mmm that made me hungry!!
P. People
E. Eating
T. Tasty
A. Animals
by jin jang on July 7th, 2009
An animal of any sort goes through the same fear that humans do,and realize that they are about to be killed.The way the animals are treated in commercial farms is terrible.It is against the law to even take pictures of what is going on in these places to the animals.Overcrowding,heat exhaustion,wallowing in feces,and other things that would be illegal for humans.At least in the days of independent family farming the animals lived a decent existence before slaughtering.
by WaitingWaitingWaiting on July 7th, 2009
nope, gotta do what you gotta do to live long and healthy. Crocodiles drown their victims before doing anything. all animals do some type of cruelty to eat. Yes, the conditions could be better, but greed is a strong force.
by Nasiswand on July 7th, 2009
I don't think eating meat is cruel. There are some places who seem to go out of their way to make life hell for livestock though. For those poor creatures, death really is a sweet release.
by Shatzee coming back? on July 7th, 2009
There are some situations with large stockyards where the animal may suffer unnecassary pain. I do think that is wrong and should be stopped. I am very much for eating meat though. I love my steaks and bacon. There will always be a certain degree of pain to the animal during slaughter but most of the time it is butchered very quickly and doesnt suffer. I dont think eating meat is cruel, not at all. The meat cannot feel anything.
by Lady GoogadaGa on July 7th, 2009
No. If meat was not meant to be eaten...it wouldnt have nutrient value. Plus my God say's it is alright to eat meat. =)
by marty90210 on July 7th, 2009
i think its wrong to buy the animal coz your paying people to murder theese animals, children are ok coz they have to if their parents do but if your at least 16 then you should be eating vegetables to help you grow and keep healthy and strong. some of the strongest and most beautiful people in the world are vegetarians and some lived to 110
by qwerty on July 7th, 2009
by Tveg on July 10th, 2009
It is obviously cruel. No animal enjoys living a horrible life, and wants to die a painful death! The pain and suffering that happen every day is such a sad statement of human de-evolution. Many animals die just to become food for selfish creatures!
by ~AmberTheCuriousOne~ on July 7th, 2009
yes
by The Wraith of God is Coming on July 7th, 2009
Its' great with BBQ sause from PETA People eating tasty animals.
by Mary Hartnet on July 21st, 2009
I think eating meat is creul, but honestly, the animal is already dead and doesn't know he/she is being devoured. What is cruel is the manner in which the animals are poorly kept for and inhumanely slaughtered. By the time they are processed into meat, their lifetime of cruelty is over.
by Discipline on July 11th, 2009
If I slice a pound of meat from your body and chop it up to stir fry with vegetables, whilst in the process sent you to to the hospital emergency ward, do you think it is not cruel? If you still think it is not cruel to stir fry a pound of fresh of any indivual life form, then continue to eat meat. Either you are in a comma being and fed by some mechanical means or you are an idiot (or a psychopath) to eat such thing called meat!
by notDr.Phil... on July 10th, 2009
No because if we didnt eat meat, the world would be over populated with animals and what not.
by Anonymous on July 8th, 2009
No I don't, I know my opinion may not be highly regarded as the correct answer, but I think that people in this country should focus more on how they treat people rather than animals.
When I first came to this country, I had no money, no place to live and no job. I remember the first time I got payed for for hauling cement blocks for some man's pool in the hot summer sun. I was so happy. I went to the local in-n-out that had a nice outdoor eating area. I noticed that there were some young angry people with picket signs lined up on the side walk. but that didn't matter, what mattered was that after a week of poverty and starvation I would have my first meal. But as soon as I sat down to eat -this young angry person came up to me and threw my burger into the garbage can saying "MEAT IS MURDER!!!" I wanted to cry...
by Eddie O. on July 7th, 2009
well i think no,but it depends actually you might be right about meat and is cruel that we eat it just for that i would like to add that this is actually a very good question. to some degress it does matter that eating meat is cruel but god allowed us eat meat in an episode of the bible, but i'am not to familar with it but you might be right about it like i said before or what i said above, but no don't worry too much about it becuase you might be hurting yourself might end up going crazy "}but you're absolutely right that it "might" a little cruel. i give you props for that "}
I hope this helps or at least have or has answered your question "}
by betterintime on August 3rd, 2009
eating meat is cruel in many dimensions. the unnecessary suffering of life (made by God). hurting and killing animals when there is no definitive need for your survival is engaging in a more violent lifestyle than you need to.
also, eating meat itself is more difficult to digest and often carries toxins your body must purge (generally found in the fatty parts of meat). its really a gift from God that we are able to eat and digest mean when life becomes more difficult and perhaps crop failure has led to an immediate need for survival. theres an excellent book regarding the nutritive value of foods (the china study) and how meat does not factor into this equation.
i advocate eating a healthy and meat-free diet when possible. having lived in a third-world country, i realize opportunitites to eat vegetarian are not always available, but should without a doubt be preferred for our health, inside and outside the body.
by Discipline on July 11th, 2009
Yes, when a girl break her finger nail, or when a guy get bashed by gangsters, that is pain to them. But when they all chew a quarter pounder of flesh from another life form, they do not think of that same pain multiplied by a million fold !!!!!!!!! Those that still think eating meat is right should be eaten so that they know what the experience is like! I will not use words to argue with them. If they want to argue, let them be slaughtered to prove their argument!!!!
by Mosexy on July 7th, 2009
I think it's more cruel to expect human beings to give up meat just because their economic system is flawed by greed.
by Ray Del Sol on October 9th, 2009
I eat meat.
by AppaloosaInk on October 9th, 2009
(I'm a vegetarian) and my answer is No, I think the factory farming industry is cruel.
by twistedelm on August 15th, 2009
When my mother was alive(she died at 90)-she use to tell this story about slaughtering chickens. She said my Uncle Will would put the chicken head on a chopping block and off came the head. The rest is to bloody to write down. But after cleaning it they would make a supper. I am not a hunter but I suppose people who are--most likely do the same things? I read in a magazine once that some slaughtering houses give the steer an electric shock prior to the rest of the act. To me as long as people buy meat; does this mean that they partially approve of how slaughtering is done? Its a choice to me but I only eat turkey or fish.
by princesscountrygirl on August 14th, 2009
Absolutely not. That is why God put animals on this earth, it's the circle of life.
by Neko5327 on August 14th, 2009
meat comes from animals of coruse it's cruel how would you feel if someone hunted you and ate your meat? that wouldn't be right would it? =.= even though I eat meat I feel sorry for those poor animals! :<
by Who Is She on August 14th, 2009
It's interesting that those who have said it is not cruel go on to explian how it is merely morally acceptable (for them), but ignore the word 'cruel' in the question! The question was not 'is meat nice' or 'do you think it is justifiable for us to eat meat', or 'since less intelligent animals eat meat is it OK for us to' etc., it was whether to eat meat is cruel or not. Would have been interesting to hear the pro-carnivores address that.
by evandad on August 14th, 2009
Yes, but so is life. I understand vegetarianism (I was one for 10 years) as long as it's for humanitarian reasons. It's a personal choice.
by Peregrine on August 3rd, 2009
No. We are animals and our bodies can process meat. It is good for us, despite what the hippy agenda says, and it is a dog eat dog world out there.
by buttman on July 26th, 2009
I don't eat meat, but this would be a good question to pose to those dog-lovers who eat meat but were screaming for Michael Vick's head........and still are. Well no....."that's different"! Of course it is! There are other parts of the world where they eat dogs.
They eat the bark out of them!
by unknown on July 26th, 2009
Yes, Because a living thing is being murdered for someone else to eat them . Who said that animal wanted to die? I would not want someone to kill me so someone else could cook me & eat me....
by Anonymous on July 16th, 2009
Not specifically ... however i do think inhumane treatment of animals sent to slaughter is cruel.
by Yarnlady is happy every day on July 8th, 2009
There is nothing cruel about cooking and eating a piece of meat.
by Naamah on July 8th, 2009
No.
by Don Gorgeous George on July 8th, 2009
No.
by raindancer on July 7th, 2009
Not just no. Hell no!
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by Lfitzz on July 7th, 2009
No, not if the animals are bred especially to be killed.
by Sid on August 3rd, 2009
Eating meat in itself isn't cruel as the animal is already dead, but sometimes their lives leading up to their deaths is cruel so it would be better if some of them had a better existence leading up to that moment. At the end of the day though I have to eat, so I still eat meat.
by Anaya on July 8th, 2009
I honestly don't believe that eating meat is really that terrible considering that I was raised in a very poor part of Venezuela.
If you don't want to take my word for it, you should look at the small islands off of the gulf that formed after one of the major floods 6 years ago. During the flood all of the major predatory animals either left or drowned and almost nothing but herbivores were left on these islands. Scientist gathered together a rescue team to relocate the animals and found an island with nothing but Howler Monkeys, but these were monkeys acted very strangely. Howler Monkeys are very social and they live as a community, but these howler monkeys were anti-social and didn't communicate at all... howler monkeys that don't howl <.<
because there were no predators on the island, the population of howler monkeys increased drastically, but their food source didn't. So they became incredibly competitive and even hostile towards each other. Scientists even found a considerable amount of howlers stoned to death but theirs still speculation on whether it was over food or dominance.
by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on August 14th, 2009
we are made of protein and it is not cruel to eat meat.
by KavaMai on April 9th, 2010
Yes, watch meet your meat and you will understand where I am coming from.
by failed_stoic on August 8th, 2009
Yes! Not only is it cruel to animals it is cruel to people. Think about all the labor that would be freed up if we were not burdened with satisfying the demand for meat (refrigeration, antibiotics, additional land, extra labor for butchering, feeding, crop growing, cleaning ...) and the additional health costs which the industry saddles society with. If we could keep the burden of providing food and health care lighter we would all benefit.
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by produde on February 4th, 2010
i think meat taste better than vegetables so i dont think eating meat is wrong
by qwerty on August 14th, 2009
no
by produde on February 4th, 2010
i don't think is cruel we eat it everyday (except for vegetarians) and is yummy!!!!
by PocketNut is as sure as a peanut on February 4th, 2010
No, I think factory farming is cruel, I would like to see meat become a luxury, rather than a daily dietary expectation.
by produde on February 4th, 2010
nope
by Thriftymaid on August 27th, 2009
No. Our bodies need meat.
by Reptar on October 9th, 2009
Hell no. I love meat. I'll eat anything someone tells me is meat. I don't even care what animal it comes from really, I'll eat it.
by eric on October 9th, 2009
Only when..IT'S STILL ALIVE!
by Reptar on January 20th, 2010
No, I don't think it's cruel at all. I think it's tasty. I love meet, and if it suddenly became illegal, I would go kill stuff in the bush and eat it there. Meet is AWESOME.
i dont eat food that comes from a dead animal. I eat eggs but not gelatin. Im more than a vegetarian but less than a vegan. What am I called
by hedgepiglet on September 10th, 2010
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Do vegans eat honey or honeycomb?
by fred flintstone on August 30th, 2009
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Who here besides me, has had a vegan cake and liked it?
by Vaporeongirl on August 14th, 2010
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When broccoli turns yellow, has it gone bad? Or just not as good? Should it not be eaten? Or how 'bout when it gets soft?
New topic - how do I make strawberries last longer? I refrigerate them in the plastic container they came in. Lasts 2 days
by scubaguy on August 27th, 2009
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Can vegetarians eat mushrooms? Can they eat yeast, or truffles?
by Gene H on November 27th, 2009
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by Anonymous on July 7th, 2009
Lovehearts, I always wonder the same thing - especially why people don't care about pigs when they are considered more intelligent than dogs. It is easier to just be selfish, and uncaring.
Am I imagining it, or did you change your avatar?
Is life still boring?
by Tveg on July 10th, 2009
I know, I really do find it difficult to understand.
And I did change my avatar, yeah :)
Life is slow at the moment. It should pick up again soon.
by Lovehearts on July 13th, 2009
I love how this has been downrated so the meat loving ones are on top.
Yeahhh.
by Lovehearts on August 5th, 2009
The selfish and uncaring tend to stick together!
by Tveg on August 5th, 2009
Well, if the animals have lived a good life, and not like those chickens who live crampt up and broken legs etc for their whole lifes, then no
by BlackRider on January 20th, 2010