Here's the thing: Unless you watched every step of that animals life and the slaughter process it underwent, you cannot say that it was treated humanely. Over 10 billion animals are slaughtered for human consumption every year in North America alone. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the majority of them aren't treated well on their way out. They are treated as a product, not a living being.
I eat meat, but I was a vegetarian for 3 years. My sister is an Animal Protection Officer (APO) for the SPCA and has become a vegetarian after seeing the horrific treatment of livestock animals and pets alike by the people supposed to protect them. She has been an avid meat eater her entire life and she literally cannot do it anymore, it makes her physically ill and I don't blame her. She's seen all the footage in those horrific videos you see online, but up close and personal in her face on a daily basis.
Vegetarians and vegans are not bad people. They're making a conscious effort to educate people to the suffering they support unknowingly everyday. And when I see people respond to them with comments like "im gonna go eat some tastey bacon now cuz ur dumm", it makes me hate my fellow meat eaters. Don't bash the vegetarians because they make you feel guilty. Ask yourself why you feel guilty.
I never said vegetarians are bad people, far from it. I do not bash vegetarians because it makes me feel guilty, this sounds horrible, but I do not feel guilty whatsoever for eating meat as it is natural for us to do so and not doing anything to stop the poor treatment of these animals, don't get me wrong I would hate to see the animals suffer it is wrong and inhumane but refusing to eat meat doesn't change this. As for your sisters reasons for being a vegetarian I completely understand and respect her decision. My post was explaining or trying to at least why I hate the vegetarian belief not vegetarian people. Vegetarians like your sister I can completely understand because they have personally seen animals being treated badly, but its others who just won't eat it for the sake of it. You probably won't understand at all where I am coming from, but it is just the ways I feel.
Not trying to nitpick here but "...it is natural for us to do so" is a logical fallacy called the naturalistic fallacy. Rape is natural, nightshade is natural, shitting in public is natural. Natural does not automatically make something right or good. I understand where you're coming from because I also eat meat and believe in the "everything in moderation" mindset, but you are using old arguments that aren't exactly substantial or logically rooted.
Refusing to buy meat does make a difference. When you buy meat, you are buying into a company that sells a product made from the mass slaughter of animals. By putting money into this company, you are encouraging and supporting their business and thus increasing demand for the consequent supply of more product (meat). By taking your money out of the equation and refusing to buy this product, you are lessening demand while simultaneously making a statement that you are not okay with supporting the questionable standards through which the product was produced.
It's the same reason why so many McDonalds have been shut down across North America in the past two years. People aren't buying like they used to because they're getting wiser about what the food is doing to them and whether or not they want to be the one to support that industry. Money talks louder than morals.
"Hating" the vegetarian belief consequently implies that you dislike vegetarians because they follow this belief. And there are numerous environmental and socio-economic reasons for vegetarians diets aside from the moral reasons. Animal factory farms are the standard for livestock production now, and these are responsible for massive amounts of greenhouse emissions, erosion of vital topsoil, eradication of wildlife and all organisms from river systems because of animal waste run off, and the ruining of local peoples lives who are driven from their homes and business because of the stench, pollution and dirty politics of these operations.
Is it normal to have a hatred towards vegetarians and vegans?
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Here's the thing: Unless you watched every step of that animals life and the slaughter process it underwent, you cannot say that it was treated humanely. Over 10 billion animals are slaughtered for human consumption every year in North America alone. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the majority of them aren't treated well on their way out. They are treated as a product, not a living being.
I eat meat, but I was a vegetarian for 3 years. My sister is an Animal Protection Officer (APO) for the SPCA and has become a vegetarian after seeing the horrific treatment of livestock animals and pets alike by the people supposed to protect them. She has been an avid meat eater her entire life and she literally cannot do it anymore, it makes her physically ill and I don't blame her. She's seen all the footage in those horrific videos you see online, but up close and personal in her face on a daily basis.
Vegetarians and vegans are not bad people. They're making a conscious effort to educate people to the suffering they support unknowingly everyday. And when I see people respond to them with comments like "im gonna go eat some tastey bacon now cuz ur dumm", it makes me hate my fellow meat eaters. Don't bash the vegetarians because they make you feel guilty. Ask yourself why you feel guilty.
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I never said vegetarians are bad people, far from it. I do not bash vegetarians because it makes me feel guilty, this sounds horrible, but I do not feel guilty whatsoever for eating meat as it is natural for us to do so and not doing anything to stop the poor treatment of these animals, don't get me wrong I would hate to see the animals suffer it is wrong and inhumane but refusing to eat meat doesn't change this. As for your sisters reasons for being a vegetarian I completely understand and respect her decision. My post was explaining or trying to at least why I hate the vegetarian belief not vegetarian people. Vegetarians like your sister I can completely understand because they have personally seen animals being treated badly, but its others who just won't eat it for the sake of it. You probably won't understand at all where I am coming from, but it is just the ways I feel.
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Not trying to nitpick here but "...it is natural for us to do so" is a logical fallacy called the naturalistic fallacy. Rape is natural, nightshade is natural, shitting in public is natural. Natural does not automatically make something right or good. I understand where you're coming from because I also eat meat and believe in the "everything in moderation" mindset, but you are using old arguments that aren't exactly substantial or logically rooted.
Refusing to buy meat does make a difference. When you buy meat, you are buying into a company that sells a product made from the mass slaughter of animals. By putting money into this company, you are encouraging and supporting their business and thus increasing demand for the consequent supply of more product (meat). By taking your money out of the equation and refusing to buy this product, you are lessening demand while simultaneously making a statement that you are not okay with supporting the questionable standards through which the product was produced.
It's the same reason why so many McDonalds have been shut down across North America in the past two years. People aren't buying like they used to because they're getting wiser about what the food is doing to them and whether or not they want to be the one to support that industry. Money talks louder than morals.
"Hating" the vegetarian belief consequently implies that you dislike vegetarians because they follow this belief. And there are numerous environmental and socio-economic reasons for vegetarians diets aside from the moral reasons. Animal factory farms are the standard for livestock production now, and these are responsible for massive amounts of greenhouse emissions, erosion of vital topsoil, eradication of wildlife and all organisms from river systems because of animal waste run off, and the ruining of local peoples lives who are driven from their homes and business because of the stench, pollution and dirty politics of these operations.