Are you a vegetarian? for what reason?

Natural to eat meat, not exactly fond of the way they treat the animals though. Animals get killed and eaten in the wild all the time, but they get to roam about and live their natural lives until then. I try not to eat as much meat as I use to. I would prefer to be able to buy it from a farm I know is reputable.

Here's an odd take to eating vegetables that many people don't think about....

Vegetable harvesting is not cruelty-free. When you buy your veggies in the market you see a bag of veggies, often already cleaned for you.

What you don't see... The harvesting equipment kills animals. Rabbits, mice, whatever else is living in the fields gets killed by the equipment. Especially if they burrowed their little dens under the fields.

So if you're eating machine-harvested vegetables to be "cruelty free"... remember, just because you don't see a dead mouse or rabbit next to that vegetable does not mean it wasn't killed.

I call this "wearing blinders". It's the mentality of "if i don't see it, it didn't happen" that people use. Same reason why many people who scream about how "meat is murder" turn around and use products that dead cow parts went into. Your tooth paste for example doesn't look like a cow so... it's easier to pretend the cow's glycerine wasn't really used for it, even though the cow still died.

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what the hell does slavery have to do with vegetables.
the fuck.

animals eat other animals, some animals can even eat us. i think its fine to eat meat.

Oh I wish. I do not really eat vegetables and love meat.

When we die, we become the grass. The antelope eat the grass....

Haha in all seriousness though, the way I see it is its just part of the life cycle.

humans not above animals? fuck that i am better than a fucking cat and by the way i love ripping the flesh of animals off the bone with my teeth

I don't think whether or not eating meat is natural is a valid reason to do it. You could argue that rape is natural, as amoung humans many years ago it was probably the normal way to conceive a child, not to mention the fact that many animals do it. Does that mean that rape is okay too, so long as it isn't too violent? I don't think so. It's also natural to burn down your neighbour's house, steal their wife, kill their kids and take all their possessions. In the "wild", that is what humans would do. Does that mean it's morally right? Of course not.

Would society have progressed this far if we'd always followed all our natural insticts? I would say no. Co-operation goes against our natural insticts, but I would say it is key to our success as a species. Natural doesn't equal good, moral and justified.

I'll probably get thumbsed-down for using such extreme analogies, but what the heck.

Because its the cool thing to do these days.

Psh

We're at the top of the food chain...or food web if you will. Do you think a lion or a hyena go around thinking they're better than the animals they eat? No. They're hungry. Humans have canines for a reason.

I believe that with time people will evolve and not eat meat or animal products anymore. It will happen step by step, little by little....and I've decited to take part in this evolution right now.

I'm kind of very late to this but I'll comment anyway.

I'm not actually vegetarian but I have considered it for a reason not mentioned here.

It makes sense if we want to grow as a species. What I mean is that plants only take in about 2% of sunlight's usable energy. After that, the next consumer uses about 20% of the energy in the plant, followed by 20% of that for the next consumer.

So, if we want to be able to sustain a large population, it makes much more sense to forgo the meat and settle for another source of protein.

I just don't wish to eat animals.

It's small minded to say 'oh animals eat other animals, and humans are animals' unlike other animals we cant chew through animal flesh naturally without cooking it. We also need to cook meat to not get sick from it. How is that natural?

You don't see a lion in a savanna with a BBQ cooking its prey.

Animals eat other animals and humans are animals too.

ehh. whatever helps you sleep at night.

Yes we are naturally above animals. To think we are the same level as animals is to subjugate human power an responsibility

Eating meat is okay as long as the animal lived a good life and died the humane way

I don't eat that kind of SHIT unless it's included in a T.V.dinner.

yes i am because i dont need it and i dont like the chewiness. one day i was with a group of people and one was a meat inspector, he went into detail about faults his profession look for, eg incomplete removal of tumors (these are common) anyhow it put me off further. i could eat hunted game in the wild tho if i needed to, but right now i dont need it

I eat vegetarian meals once in a while, but I always feel it's missing something.

I couldn't be a vegetarian. I love meat too much. Plus, it's been helping me lose weight! So..yeah, I need my meats.

Yeah, I'm vegan.

I'm not really a "vegetarian", but I rarely eat actual meat. I eat like chicken stock in soup broth, or other things like that. I don't like the taste of most actual meats, especially red meats. When I do eat meat, it is usually chicken or turkey. Meat just does not appeal to me the way some fresh fruit or a good salad does.

I love all animals but it is very natural to eat meat and to me i see it this way if something actually changed by some people being vegetarian i would consider it but untill that happens im just happy as can be eating meat and why not if i dont eat some it will just be a total waste...

I think you cannot compare humanities' meat eating habits with other animals', since we have the intellectual capacity and complex sociocultural environment that makes our individual ethical decisions significant.
Tigers or lions have neither supermarkets or a brain developed well enough to actually understand morality. They make their decisions based on instincts and basic needs, but when it comes to eating, human beings are different.
We do not need to eat meat to survive but we choose to because of other factors such as taste. This is why I think we do have a moral responsibility of what choice of diet we make.
Personally, I think that modern farming causes a lot of unnecessary suffering and that it is a hazard to both our health and our environment, I've seen enough farms from the inside to know what's going on in there.
And that's why I am a vegan.

Anthropologists have this theory that in the early years, humans had the rule not to kill a family member. Later the circle grew larger and the rule changed to "don't kill anyone from your tribe", later- "don't kill anyone from your nationality" and today the rule is "Don't kill another human being". It's only natural that we come to the phase when we don't kill other mammals and even later not kill animals at all. That is the future of evolution. So forget the religious shit and be part of something bigger.

I eat meat and don't think I'll stop, but I've read things that say when we eat meat we become more animal like and when we cleanse ourselves and only eat organics that we think clearer and become more aware of things, I don't know if I believe it but when I had a stomack problem I couldn't eat meat so I would only eat rice and vegetables and id have to say I did have a clearer mind, not so sure about being aware of spirits or anything unordinary