Is it moral to eat meat? ***Constructive Discussion ONLY***

[rooster-red]

I am a carnivore.

I eat meat.

Its what we carnivores do.

I have tried the vegitarian thing.

I couldn't stick to it.

So I eat meat.

 

[MRNpoultry]

Acts 10:9-16
On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance; and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!” But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.” Again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.” This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.

In the bible adam and eve never ate meat until they had sinned and were casted out of the garden of eden, I think.​

 

[dangerouschicken]

Cool book! I'm gonna get that! Anymore duck recipes people? You are meat eaters, right?

I love to eat venison, but I don't know how to shoot. A friend's husband takes down one a year, so she's gonna share. My grandmother was a Cherokee. I wonder what she'd say if someone thought it was immoral to eat a deer?

 

[luvmychicknkids]

My reason for feeling this way is that if you do not feel that it is OK for you to take a life, or if you are just too freaked out to be willing to face the reality of it, then I think it's a coward's way out to make someone else do what isn't ok for YOU to do.

May I ask why? How does this make me a coward. I eat meat. I tried to be a vegetarian and it really didn't work for our family at all. I cannot kill. NEVER I can, however, cook. I know plenty of people who cannot. I do not feel my husband is not entitled to eat food he is incapable of preparing (that is pretty much anything). There are plenty of people who can kill animals for food and sleep peacefully that night. I could not. I would never sleep again I am afraid. I know my weaknesses and am more than willing to admit to them. This does not make me spoiled or ignorant as to where we get our food. I know full well an animal died for every bite of meat we consume. I do not, however, feel that I and my children should ever be denied the right to consume nutritious, healthy, food because we refuse to kill.

Just wanted to add, I am an atheist...I do not buy into the "god gave us meat" theory. However, we ARE omnivores....PERIOD.​

 

[Carolina Chicken Man]

Meat good!!

 

[MRNpoultry]

I love to eat venison, but I don't know how to shoot.

Deer is great, really deer jerky.​

 

[gamebirdsonly]

I DON'T EAT MY OWN BIRDS, BUT I HAVE NO PROBLEM EATING MEAT OR HUNT FOR FOR MY MEAT.

 

[dangerouschicken]

I'm a Quaker. I also refuse to kill....































HUMANS!



Soylent Green is people!

Just kiddin' with you folks.....

 

[RoostersCrow]

I consider the eating of meat an amoral issue. Note: I said amoral not immoral... meaning morality does not enter into the question of eating meat per se. It is legal, I enjoy it, it sustains me so I eat it.

How we use animals, care for them, consider them, or neglect and abuse them ... there is plenty of room for moral judgement there. It's where this black and white question turns all shades of gray...

 

[Crunchie]

I haven't read all of the posts, but I wanted to throw my $.02 in as a vegetarian.

I don't think that is immoral to eat meat. I do think that it is immoral to ignore where your meat comes from, or to ignore the fact that it was a living being. The only problem I have with others eating meat (and, in general, I have absolutely no problem with anyone eating meat...you wouldn't believe the defensiveness I've encountered over the years from people when they first find out that I don't eat meat...as if I am offended that they do. I'm not.) is when there is a total lack of respect involved, as if being at the top of the food chain somehow gives us the right to inflict unecessary pain and suffering on other beings. If anything, I think being at the top of the food chain should mean that we have the responsibility (and should have the brains and compassion) to treat those beings beneath us with respect.

As you can imagine, I have a big problem with factory farming practices. I do not have a problem with home-grown or small-scale production of animals for food purposes where animals are treated humanely. I will gladly sell you a rooster for your stew pot. I know it was treated with respect, and I made the decision to breed these animals and I don't believe that its life should be wasted. If I have no use for the animal, I want it to go to someone who does. If that use is feeding your family, I am satisified with that choice.

For me, it is not moral to eat meat. Please notice I say me, and don't ignore what I wrote above and be offended. My personal choice when it comes to not eating meat, from a moral standpoint (I could also go on about the environmental impacts, but since this is a discussion about the morality of it, so I'll stick to that) is spiritual. The religion I follow is a simple, pacifist religion, and so violence of any kind is very, very much avoided. Taking the life of another being is an act of violence. So I don't do it. No, I do not consider the life of an animal to be equivalent to that of a person--but I do believe that we are all connected--people, animals, the planet. And so an act of violence towards an animal is still an act of violence that affects us all, as we are all interconnected.