For one to eat meat, they must kill or approve of the killing of animals. Killing (irrespective of how “humane” it could be) to a certain, degree requires an act of violence. Does this therefore mean that meat eaters have violent souls?
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Killing an animal to eat does not require a violent soul. In ancient times, my people literally thanked the creature for offering itself for our food. In this day and age of packaged meat, it does not even require an animal instinct (as opposed to violent soul) to eat meat.
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No. Predatory maybe but I'd argue against 'violent'. If they are violent, then that will include the vast, vast majority of the human population too. Me, for example. I eat meat. I've killed my own via hunting. I'm also non-confrontational, given to conciliation rather than argument and widely regarded as a pretty gentle feller...
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In order to live, something else must die. That's the way of all animals. Assuming souls exist, if all souls who eat are violent, then the term "violent soul" would be redundant and meaningless, as even an unborn child is nourished by nutrients from dead plants and animals.
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I accept vegetarians who choose their lifestyle from their idea that violence to animals is wrong and must be prevented. I certainly do not consider them stupid and I find their beliefs to be compassionate. However, I consider these vegetarians to live a convenient lifestyle available to them by living in a land of plenty. In the food crisis we are in now, the world is having difficulty providing for everyone when there is vegetable products AND meat products available to consume. I am sure that, if I checked, the removal of all killing of animals for food would result in mass global hunger (that would put the mass global hunger we are currently in to shame). I believe those that choose to not eat meat for this reason are compassionate, but I do not believe the opposite - that those who eat meat are not. It is fallacious and illogical to believe that those who eat meat assume the sin or, as your question phrases, "violent soul," of the act which, when you look at the big picture, is required at least in some number for survival.
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Studies have proven that meat eaters are more aggressive by nature than vegetarians,though I am not sure they have violent souls.I am sure if they were to visit a slaughterhouse of pigs,cattle,and birds and saw the actual killing they would be more aware of the situation.On my grandfather's farm,when visiting, as child, I saw the killing of animals for meat.For some reason few think of the animals when eating the meat.
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Yes, I have a violent soul and it loves veal and raw red meat with garlic salt and pepper. Actually, I never thought about it because I am Jewish and not going to hell.
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Me angry..... ME love meat.....mmmmmmmmm
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What does a lion eat? What does a tiger eat? What does a bear eat? Oh my. If it came down to it I'd eat you if you were dead and we were stranded in the Andes. Vegetarians bug me, but I am willing to put up with them. My g/f is one.
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I think people whose parents beat them end up having somewhat violent souls. Eating meat causing a violent soul? I don't think so. God put animals on the earth for us to eat... so... anyways. That's like saying it's inhumane to eat lettuce because a guy died of a heat stroke while planting it.
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If that's what it takes - I'm in. But I don't think so. As a member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals), I recognize that the best flavor and meat texture comes from very quick, clean kills. Would we be considered violent for poisoning rats to keep them out of our grains?
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If we didn't eat the animals we eat, then we would classify them as pests for ruining our valuable farm land. A rabbit can't bust your head open, but it can breed fast, destroy your crops, and starve your whole family to death. You must live a very soft life. Yes, misplaced aggression is one of the worst things we have to put up with in this world, but correctly placed aggression is a very important tool. It saved our ancestors from lions and crocodiles, and it allows modern workers to work 12 hour shifts in physically demanding jobs (okay, maybe we could do without that one!), it allows fire-fighters and other emergency workers to get results, it allows those who work the land to get the job done in all sorts of weather, and regardless of what the media or anyone else says, I have observed that most women prefer their men to have balls. Whose life is more important: that of the lion or that of the zebra? Why?
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All LIVING green plants contain chlorophyll. If a vegetarian or vegan prepares, cooks or eats a green plant, then technically aren't the plants STILL ALIVE? They first torturing the plant by ripping it out of the ground, cutting and stabbing into serving portions, subjecting it to boiling water or microwave radiation, then cutting and stabbing it AGAIN into bite-size portions, then biting it repeatedly. At least human carnivores have enough ethics and decency to kill the organism before they eat it!!! God did not say, "Do not kill." He said, "Thou shall not commit murder."
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No.
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Either that or just hungry stomachs combined with a predillection for barbeque sauce?! ;-)
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It's called survival of the fittest. My g/f is a vegetarian...a little annoying. You can't honestly tell me that if you were isolated somewhere with no food, but were able to catch an eat an animal, you wouldn't do it.
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