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Old 07-09-2011, 15:36
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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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Old 07-09-2011, 15:40
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Why do people eat meat?

Is it because they are not concerned about animal welfare?
Yes, generally. Nobody who eats meat can be that concerned about animal welfare (whatever they may say) or they simply wouldn't do it.

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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Old 07-09-2011, 15:49
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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?
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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Old 07-09-2011, 15:50
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I enjoy the taste and experiance of eating meat.
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Old 07-09-2011, 15:55
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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.
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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Old 07-09-2011, 15:58
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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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Old 07-09-2011, 15:58
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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?
Go ahead.
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:01
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As is so often the case, the Wikipedia page on vegetarianism is a good place to start - not in its own right but via the links to subsequent material that it contains, in this case to long-term studies and reports by medical bodies around the world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetar...s_and_concerns
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:09
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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:
I like this. Although I have to disagree with you about the taste. Most meat is bloody lovely!
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:19
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Maybe because they enjoy the taste?

Did you ever consider that?
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:25
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Meat is murder.

Tasty, tasty murder.
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:28
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Because meat tastes good.
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:32
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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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Old 07-09-2011, 16:34
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I like this. Although I have to disagree with you about the taste. Most meat is bloody lovely!
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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Old 07-09-2011, 16:34
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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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Old 07-09-2011, 16:36
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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.
exactly.... and your point is?
Seriously, change the record :yawn:
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:36
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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.
You'd be able to quote five of us saying this right?

Thought not.
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:37
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exactly.... and your point is?
Seriously, change the record :yawn:
Make that six people who were at the back of the queue when compassion was being handed out.
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:39
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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.
It's rare that I find a response to my post so well done as yours, in any medium that I have used.

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Old 07-09-2011, 16:40
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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.
Yes... I mostly agree with this although not the part about who gives who the most hassle because I believe the honours are about even in that department.
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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Old 07-09-2011, 16:40
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Make that six people who were at the back of the queue when compassion was being handed out.
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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Old 07-09-2011, 16:43
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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.
If you eat meat and fish, you support and condone cruelty to animals. That is an inescapable fact.

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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Old 07-09-2011, 16:44
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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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Old 07-09-2011, 16:45
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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.
Be careful about confusing animal welfare with animals being humanely slaughtered for meat. I would say most meat-eaters do have concern for the welfare of the animals provided for meat.

If anything, humans slaughter meat in a far more humane way than those vicious carnivores in the animal kingdom.
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Old 07-09-2011, 16:45
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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.
To demonstrate his commitment to the cause of vegetarianism he had all but his molars surgically removed, he now spends the days chewing a cud of bile and anger to spew randomly at evil meat eaters.
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