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Meat-eater Why?
Why do people eat meat?
Is it because they are not concerned about animal welfare? Or is it for health reasons? |
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Why do people eat meat?
Is it because they are not concerned about animal welfare? Quote:
Or is it for health reasons?
It's certainly not for that! Intertia - custom - habit. That covers it for most people, I think. If you're raised to eat meat, as most people are, you need a specific reason, sometimes a particular experience, to make you stop and think about what has been a life-long custom and to consider the possibility of changing it.
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Why do people eat meat?
Is it because they are not concerned about animal welfare? Or is it for health reasons? . |
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I enjoy the taste and experiance of eating meat.
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Because it is what human physiology dictates is best for us and for our bodies to work optimally and without disease. Go against Nature (vegetarianism) at your peril.
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I eat meat strictly to annoy vegetarians.... I don't actually like meat at all but I love the thought of all you veggies getting all emotional over it.
change the record :yawn: |
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Of course you do realise that what you've said here is not only utter garbage but easily refuted and demonstrable garbage, don't you?
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Go ahead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetar...s_and_concerns |
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I eat meat strictly to annoy vegetarians.... I don't actually like meat at all but I love the thought of all you veggies getting all emotional over it.
change the record :yawn: |
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Maybe because they enjoy the taste?
Did you ever consider that? |
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Meat is murder.
Tasty, tasty murder. |
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Because meat tastes good.
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The word from five posters so far is that any amount of grotesque cruelty to sentient creatures is justified and justifiable if the end product tastes nice.
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I like this. Although I have to disagree with you about the taste. Most meat is bloody lovely!
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In my experience vegetarians get more hassle from meat eaters than the other way around. For one, they are often asked outright why they are veggies, which is actually quite an awkward question when you consider that a large portion of them do it for moral reasons and it forces them to adopt an air of moral superiority that infuriates non-veggies so much (unless they lie about it of course). For another, it seems to have become acceptable for people who do like their meat to bang on about it in a "humorous" fashion, which does make a mockery of one's personal choice when they uphold it for very serious reasons.
There are definitely obnoxious individuals on both sides of the fence, but disregarding the common 13-year-old girl vegetarian (sorry, I was one of these!), I'd say the majority of veggies are very modest about it (on a day-to-day basis, excluding forums for open discussion of course ).Back on topic, meat does taste very nice and its wide availability makes it very easy to push animal welfare out of one's mind. We live in a society that generally deems the comsumption of meat as socially acceptable, so following laws of social psychology it's a simple dietary option to go along with. |
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The word from five posters so far is that any amount of grotesque cruelty to sentient creatures is justified and justifiable if the end product tastes nice.
Seriously, change the record :yawn: |
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The word from five posters so far is that any amount of grotesque cruelty to sentient creatures is justified and justifiable if the end product tastes nice.
Thought not. |
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exactly.... and your point is?
Seriously, change the record :yawn: |
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shhhh.... I don't want them to know I love meat in case they send the animal rights people to picket my house.
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In my experience vegetarians get more hassle from meat eaters than the other way around. For one, they are often asked outright why they are veggies, which is actually quite an awkward question when you consider that a large portion of them do it for moral reasons and it forces them to adopt an air of moral superiority that infuriates non-veggies so much (unless they lie about it of course). For another, it seems to have become acceptable for people who do like their meat to bang on about it in a "humorous" fashion, which does make a mockery of one's personal choice when they uphold it for very serious reasons.
There are definitely obnoxious individuals on both sides of the fence, but disregarding the common 13-year-old girl vegetarian (sorry, I was one of these!), I'd say the majority of veggies are very modest about it (on a day-to-day basis, excluding forums for open discussion of course ).Back on topic, meat does taste very nice and its wide availability makes it very easy to push animal welfare out of one's mind. We live in a society that generally deems the comsumption of meat as socially acceptable, so following laws of social psychology it's a simple dietary option to go along with. I can't say I've ever met a meat eater who "got in a veggies face" about it tho' but that could be because all of my chums are quite civilised I do know a number of veggies who'll get in yuor face about it tho' *shrug* different strokes and all that. |
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Make that six people who were at the back of the queue when compassion was being handed out.
A nice steak should help restore your senses. |
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I would suggest your diet of vegetables is causing hallucinations as no one has made this claim of cruelty but you.
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A nice steak should help restore your senses.
No, I have't lost my senses, and a partially burnt slice of a dead animal would do nothing other than make me projectile vomit all over the nearest omnivore's head.
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Humans are designed to eat meat, that is why we have canine teeth.
On the cruelty aspect we would have nearly wiped out every animal we currently farm. They would have no reason to exist, look at the numbers of wild animals that we have pushed to extinction or near extinction. |
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Yes, generally. Nobody who eats meat can be that concerned about animal welfare (whatever they may say) or they simply wouldn't do it.
If anything, humans slaughter meat in a far more humane way than those vicious carnivores in the animal kingdom. |
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I would suggest your diet of vegetables is causing hallucinations as no one has made this claim of cruelty but you.
A nice steak should help restore your senses. |
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