My views on eating meat is that it is natural for humans to do so. From the time of Caveman to now, meat & fish has been our source of protein. Our bodies are designed to eat meat and humans existed for hundreds of years before a supermarket, a microwave or a stove was invented.
Growing your own food, be in vegetable or animal is the way to go. To much junk, additives, hormones and chemicals go into the food in the grocery stores these days and what has it caused? Health issues for those eating it, genetic changes, animal cruelty, a lack of responsibility for the environment and an individual's rights to have animals for food.
As an American Indian, I can use my race as an example of such changes causing problems. When our people were free to hunt wherever they wished and eat the way they wished, they were healthy. Our ancestors lived long and happy lives. Now? Hardly, most of us suffer from diabetes...we are the most affected race by the disease in this country because our healthy eating habits were changed to store bought crap, processed foods and we were even moved out of our natural homelands and food sources. There was a balance between the people and the food. You did not kill what you did not use and you certainly did not kill all.
Today...many complain about hunting or tell us as supposedly FREE citizens when we can have animals, what animals we can have and how many through ordinances, local government and unhappy/noisy neighbors etc etc. The ability to provide for ourselves and our families has be taken away in the most basic and essential ways.
The result is a country full of unhealthy, microwaving, frozen food eating people with a drastically reduced life expectancy. I grew up in a family who fasied their own beef, buffalo, rabbits, chickens and hunted for deer and game birds for food. I have raised calves by bottle feeding them only to skin them 8 months later and put them in freezer. I am in my 40's now, have had my career in law, worked myself into a stroke at age 32 and am a grandmother...I am returning to my roots of raising and growing my own food. I am taking the time to teach my children.
If we were meant to eat only vegetables, they alone would provide us with all the macros we need daily...they do not. Supplements are required to meet that daily requirements unless you can eat an impossible amount of vegetable matter per day. No thanks.
I will kill a cow, shoot a deer with my bow or kill a chicken to put on my table. I feel it is our moral obligation to ourselves, our earth and the animals to eat meat.
