And, uhh. Yes, animals do eat humans, given the chance, and if their food chain allows it. Most large meat-eating animals would eat humans, and if all humans were to suddenly die, guess what one of the first things our house pets would do? Eat us.
It's just the way things are.
We eat animals because it's convenient, we have for as long as anyone knows, and they're delicious. We do a lot of things that might not be the nicest thing to do. Eating animals isn't the worst. For that matter, why is eating plants OK, but eating animals is bad? What makes animals somehow better than plants? That seems kind of arrogant to me; making judgements about eating things so that only the things most like us don't get eaten. Will no-one think of the baby corn?
We eat meat because humans are omnivores, we have always eaten meat.
If we do not eat some meat, then getting complex proteins can be an issue and there are a number of medical conditions that will result. However, there are lots of people who do just fine on a strict vegetarian diet (but these are people who pay very careful attention to what they eat to be sure they get all the nutrients they need to remain healthy).
Are you serious? Many animals are carnivores and would eat us in a heartbeat.
Thousands of years ago people like you wouldn't exist, the only reason you can live to have principles like yours is that you are so far removed from the kill or be killed law of the jungle by civilization that you can have those lofty principles.
Fortunately people like you are the future of the human race whereas people like me represent our past. Sadly for you, we're not yet far enough removed from the food chain that we can eliminate the need for food animals altogether.
Though many people are vegetarians and vegans and they claim that they can live healthy lives or even healthier lives the conventional wisdom is we still need animal protein in our diet. Fortunately it has been scientifically demonstrated that animal protein can be grown in a lab, indeed the world's first in vitro beef burger has already been cooked and eaten. One day perhaps by the end of the 21st century very few people will eat meat at the expense of the lives of animals because most meat will be grown artificially.
That leaves another moral dilemma for animal lovers though. Those animals that have to die to put food on the table only live in the first place for the purpose of putting food on the table so if we get to a point where milk is mass produced by genetically modified bacteria and beef and leather is grown in vitro we don't need cows anymore so there will be a real danger cows could go extinct and the same applies to chickens and sheep.
"They shouldn't have to suffer like this."
Why not? You say this like it's just obvious that we should all accept it as fact, but why? Suffering and death is part of life. All organisms born on this planet are potential food for other organisms, and they all die. It's not as if animals would be living in some happy flappy utopia where everyone smiles and gets along and farts rainbows if not for us eeevil humans. I mean, fine, if you don't want to cause suffering, do what you want. I don't care. But if you're going to make an argument to tell other people what they should do, it needs to be based on actual facts, not silly fantasy stories.
"I wouldn't bear it if I was forced to eat my pets. I'd rather let myself starve."
Spoken like someone who has never experienced anything remotely close to real hunger.
Because they're delicious!
Just remember though, if you become vegetarian, you're still eating plants, which are also living things. Just because they don't have mouths to scream and big dewy eyes doesn't mean you aren't killing and eating them.
Some people eat meat cause they don't understand where it comes from.
They don't suffer that much they are usually dead when you eat them. Eating meat is good for you nothing quite like a still mooing steak. And it is not very nice to pick on veggies what did they do wrong
Okay, look. I love animals too. But the reality of it is, if we didn't hunt and eat, they would over populate.
I try not to... but I take prescriptions.
And I know many products have animal in it.
I only call myself vegetarian to summarize my diet
If broccoli tasted like ribeye I'd be a vegetarian but it doesn't so I eat meat.
I think it's awful, us eating animals.
They shouldn't have to suffer like this. I'm desperate to become vegetarian but I'm not allowed to until I move out. I hate going into butcher shops because you see all the blood and dead animals, and there are posters on the walls of where meat comes from. I often have to stand outside the door to stop myself gagging and pretty much crying.
It breaks my heart to think of those poor animals. We've got hutch loads of guinea pigs, a dog, a fish and a hamster at home, and we don't eat them. I wouldn't bear it if I was forced to eat my pets. I'd rather let myself starve.
So why do we eat them? They don't eat us, so what gives us the right to eat them? Yeah, they taste like heaven - but I still think it's awful.
We don't eat our pets, so why do we eat other animals? It's not fair. They normally wouldn't harm us. We'd never eat our pets (okay, so some guy on TV ate his rabbits once, but he was a bit crazy) so why do we eat other animals? Why can't we love them like our own pets?
Thank you, I hope I get a good answer for this question!
