Your question assumes that everyone agrees with Mahatma Ghandi. Perhaps some people think that protein can be nourishing just as it is when animals eat it in the wild.

Meat can be thought of as a body and at the same time still be considered okay to eat. Not to reiterate what I said before, but it is okay for animals to eat bodies.

Personally though, I don't eat a lot of meat. ;)

Because not everyone agrees with everything Ghandi says. I, for one, believe that humans are supposed to be omnivores, which includes eating meat. Our teeth structure tells us that. That is our history. Ghandi's vegetarianism was a conscious choice he made for philosophical reasons. Good for him. Me? I like an occasional piece of meat, chicken, fish, eggs ....

Just because one man says something doesn't mean it's accurate or truth. For most living things, eating includes consuming other living things. The world is often portrayed as being a world of predators and prey. SO why shouldn't humans eat meat when we have the design of something that can eat both plants and animals? Meat isn't bodies. Maybe some animals consume bodies as a whole, but for people, we don't because we are a very large predator and we have to cut those bodies into smaller portions to store and use. Meat is meat. not a body. A body is a whole.

People tend to do as they are conditioned to. It takes a heightened awareness to associate meat with intelligent animals. Meat tends to be marketed in a fashion that disassociates the cruelty involved with the plastic wrapped package in the store. Most humans are simply selfish, and just don't care.

"Dead bodies" or "meat", no one could argue that it is not made of the same substance except for appearance wise. It is strange every parents tend to pre-condition their child for life, after weaning from milk, with that taste for meat. The truth is meat is an acquired taste. Some vegans I used to know said they did not like the smell at all and infact find it disgusting. These were all true vegans from birth and has never touched meat before though. It would be likened to most of you in the western world to be utterly disgusted with some people in parts of the world eating deep fried giant spiders the size of your palm. When you have accepted something as "food" during childhood, you will not find it disgusting in adulthood, no matter what it is. Meat also falls into this catergory. If all parents started out pre-conditioning their children to eat vegetables and not meat at a young age, they would all grow up with a natural affinity to a vegan taste and an utter disgust for meat. The meat industry realizes this and, like McDonalds, has set out to brainwash the masses by promoting for more meat consumption through television advertising (at least in the neck of my world anyway). These meat companies fears that with the modern wave of healthy eating gearing towards a vegetarian diet, their industry will shrink, if not perish, if they don't pump lots of money into continuing to brainwash the next generation back to the old barbaric ways.

Didn't da Vinci originally say that?

Because it's too good, duh lol. Why doesn't a Lion think of his meat as still alive? It's called the food chain.

this makes me think of a simpsons episode where lisa becomes a vegitarian and says at the table infront of her plate of lamb that she cant eat something that she was just playing with a few hours ago and homer says "no lisa this 'LAMB' not A lamb." the dairy and meat industries are very lucrative for many other industries like pharmaceuticals etc and if less and less people wanted to eat dairy and meat products a lot of different industries would suffer so they have to seel us lies that milk and meat are good for you thru advertising and media. i think people are happy living in a world where they dont have to see what goes on behind the scenes because it tastes good. thats what makes the saying "if abbatoirs had glass walls we'd all be vegetarian" so true.