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

[greyfields]

Your last comment was the provocative one. I wonder if anyone, EVER, has only eaten meat from an animal they personally dispatched? If they did, I'd like to read the biography.

I think if that were the standard set, no one would eat meat. We all have day jobs and really don't have the time to devote all our time to the preparation of our own food each and every day.

 

[dangerouschicken]

I only eat a little meat, and what I do eat, I grow and kill myself. Freaky, but true!

Guess what? I grow and kill soybeans, too. I am a sucker for edamame.

Plants feel pain. You just don't have an eye to look them in when you slaughter them. Well, unless they are a potato.

Food for thought.

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[HorseFeathers]

I eat meat, but only free-range. I think what they do in factory farms is downright WRONG. However, I tried being vegetarian and just missed steak too much. I greatly admire vegetarians and vegans who keep healthy. My friend is vegetarian, but doesn't make up for her lack of meat by eating tofu or something. I believe that eating right is definitly as important in vegetarianism as your beliefs about meat.

Thanks for listening. This coming from an 11 year old girl I hope you don't mind the rant.

 

[greyfields]

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A lot of people (conveniently) believe that the food they eat never could have came from deplorable conditions. But, less than 2% of chicken in the US is raised free range. How can people really convince themselves every single chicken they've ever eaten was in that 2%??

They manage to, but it's of course fiction.

 

[HorseFeathers]

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I totally agree, Henry. U Rock.

A lot of people (conveniently) believe that the food they eat never could have came from deplorable conditions. But, less than 2% of chicken in the US is raised free range. How can people really convince themselves every single chicken they've ever eaten was in that 2%??

They manage to, but it's of course fiction.

Yup.​

 

[silkiechicken]

I eat meat because it tastes good. Meat that I raise by my self is even better because I could be responsible for their well being from beginning to end and know how their lives went.

Before my mom came from America, they killed all their meat for food if they wanted to eat it. You could buy some at the market, but often it was alive when bought and you did the work yourself, or did so with the community if it was a large animal. However, it was not often, because often meat was too expensive.

 

[dangerouschicken]

Envirogirl...

my favorite 11 year old girl

Smart post!

 

[ncgnance]

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I only have eye for you. ( an old joke..) I love edamame, too. They don't scream when you pick 'em...

 

[MRNpoultry]

I eat meat since it is good to eat other stuff than vegtables all the time. Me and my dad hunt and fish, but we eat what we kill. I don't think it is right to just shoot stuff for the fun of it or to just get a trophy.

I don't think it is immoral to eat meat. It ain't right to keep what you eat in a cage where it can hardly move, but if they have the right enviroment when they are alive I don't have no problem with that.

Some people think it is wrong to kill wild animals. But if you think about it they had a good life when they where alive. Me and my cousins have got into discussion about this before, they think it is wrong to kill a wild animal since they where having a good life to you shot it. But they think it is fine to eat something that had a bad life then got killed.

 

[patandchickens]

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I would expect that people in isolated areas in Olden Days probably came pretty close.

But I fear you may misunderstand me. I did not say that it's only moral to eat animals that you have killed; I am just saying I think it's only moral to eat animals that you *would be willing to* kill. Like, if you refuse to kill and dress out a chicken, I do not think you should be eating chickens that others have done for you; but as long as you are ok with pitchin' in there too, I don't have a problem with eating chickens processed by others.

Does that make sense?

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.

JMO,

Pat