why meat doesnt grow on trees instead of killing poor animals :(?
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Hi,\n\nWell that question should be asked to the great Creator!! \nIt all can be stoped if all become vegetarian!!\n\nPlant your own vegitables (supply to market also, so others can also eat!!) and eat them... \n\nCheers!!!\njAY
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i AM ALL FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS, BUT I EAT MEAT.  Personally I feel that how the meat was produced (ie how the animal lived its life) is a bigger issue.  Factory farming in my view is unnatural and cruel. Chickens and pigs seem to be the worst affected (beef in the U.S ), the are intensively reared in cramped conditions. For this reason I only eat meat from known sources, which is free range .  I avoid eggs from battery hens because they are kept in a cage for their entire lives , and the eggs don't compare to good freerange egggs the difference is unbeleivable. Luckily beef is not intenseviley farmed in my area and very good quality.  Look up groups like 'compassion in world farming for more' info
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There are those who are opposed to hunting wildlife.  If I didn’t grow up in a quasi subsistence lifestyle, I might have felt different.  It is easy to see how hunting can be cruel.\n\nFor instance, if you walk into a restaurant and shoot a person at the salad bar, it is murder.  If you walk into a hay field and shoot a deer, it is dinner.  I have seen deer with arrowheads lodged inside and animals with injuries because of bad shots.  That is the dark side of hunting, the animal suffering that is thought of as a price the animal must pay.\n\nSo why hunt?\n\nSmall game animals have a sufficient number of predators to keep their numbers in check.  Even if there wasn’t, an overpopulation of squirrels and rabbits might be an annoyance, but not a real threat to humans and their health.  The habitat can usually support many more animals than current populations.\n\nAs animals get bigger, the number of predators get fewer.  Not many things that I have seen bother raccoons or geese.  Some animals will attack and kill these larger animals, but small animals tend to be an easier kill for a predator.  While overpopulation of these animals can cause a concern for humans.  Again, the habitat can usually support many more animals than current populations.\n\nAs you move to larger animals like deer, coyotes, and similar animals, there are few if any natural predators still around.  If the population is let go, the animals become a threat to humans either through predatory instincts or just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time (ie. Car deer accidents).  As the animals are large, they require greater amounts of food.  A large deer population can be devastating to a farmer’s crop, not to mention spread disease to livestock intended for human consumption (like bovine tuberculosis).\n\nEven small animals can be devastating to crops.  The dove population in Argentina is so large that a flock can eat thousands of tons of grain in a day.  Fields can be wiped out in under a day by the larger flocks.  \n\nHunting helps restore the balance that humans have destroyed.  As predators are gone, humans have become the predators.  Without the predators, animals like deer will consume all the food available in their habitat and either starve to death or die of diseases like CWD, bovine tuberculosis, or others  (neither sounds like a good way to die to me)\n\nSo what good is hunting?\n\n1.Keeps populations of certain game under control.  In some states, if hunting were eliminated for a year or two, the current deer populations would be well beyond the carrying capacity of the land.  Granted, many animals are not in the same predicament as the deer, but are getting to be.\n\n2.It provides an activity that allows families to spend time together and pass down traditions.  Yes, there are other things families can do, but hunting happens to be an activity built on tradition.\n\n3.It provides a heck of a lot of money into economies that otherwise wouldn’t have tourism.  I hunt deer in Tomah, WI.  Any other time of the year, there is nothing going on in the town.  However, when the gun deer season comes around, all of the hotels are full, the restaurants have waiting lists, the gas pumps are flowing, and local stores are selling things that the hunters need or forgot.\n\n4.Provides an overall boost to the economy.  Hunting is expensive (very expensive if you think about it).  Gun deer hunting requires a rifle, which a cheap one will run $500.  The rifle needs a scope which is another $250.  The scope needs rings which is $30.  A box of ammo will set a hunter back $20.  The hunter needs to sight in their rifle every year at $15 a visit.  Boots wear out at $100 a pair.  A GPS is needed after getting lost in the woods last year for about $150.  The kids stole my compass, making me part with another $10.  I can’t see over the brush anymore, so I need a deer stand at $160.  This goes on and on for any hunter (at least deer hunters…).  This money tends
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what a question!! God did not create animals for us to eat! Animals would include cat, dogs and yes you think they are not meant for that well how do you know!! If God made animals for us to eat than why did he make these animals with a nervous system and feeling so they know when they are being harmed. God would not do that! Anyways back to the cat thing, people do eat cat in different countries. Your idea is flawed. Did god make trees for us to cut down? Vegetarians or most of them believe that God did not create them soley for us to eat!  Think a century ago the way of think was the blacks were created for the purpose to serve the whites. And yes it is the same thing as what you are saying. If you want to eat meat , I respect and understand it, however the statement that animals where made for us to eat is ridiculous!
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Ya why not? If you really think about humans have been modifying plants and animals for a long time.  When we first tilled the soil and intentionally planted a seed that nature didn't put there and we first slaughtered an animal we raised for that soul purpose, we have been modifying nature.  Now its just so that we can have healthier food in more quantities.\n\nSome current applications of plant biotechnology include:\nDeveloping plants that are resistant to diseases, pests, and stress\nKeeping fruits and vegetables fresh for longer periods of time which is extremely important in tropical countries\nProducing plants that possess healthy fats and oils\nProducing plants that have increased nutritive value\nProducing soybeans with a higher expression of the anti-cancer proteins naturally found in soybeans\nDeveloping a whole range of higher value added feed\nOther applications such as lignin modification in trees that will make possible much higher fiber extraction rates in the paper and pulp industry\nProducing new substances in plants, including biodegradable plastics, and small proteins or peptides such as prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines\n\nAnimals \nIncreased resistance, productivity, hardiness, and feed efficiency \nBetter yields of meat, eggs, and milk \nImproved animal health and diagnostic methods
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Animals have bones instead.\n\nHE'S DEAD JIM !!!
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Good point!\nAs for them being veggi beforehand...LMAO! (I wonder what that fossilized *meat* was, found in a dino's stomach? T-Rex, anyone?)\nIt's not just animals either, it goes right down to the microscopic level. I could point out the fact(scary word for xtians!)that there's more prey than predators too...but I won't. \nNature is cruel to be kind.\n\n:)
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I personally believe it's because of the change in the way our food is processed and packaged.  20 years ago vegetables were grown in the garden and not picked up from the grocery store where they've been washed with who knows what kind of solution and meat wasn't injected with hormones and preservatives like it is today.  Plus I'm sure evolution had a little bit to do with it.
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That's what I'm talking about.  Kill 'em & grill 'em.  If god didn't want us to kill and eat animals - he wouldn't have made them out of meat!  Nothin' quite like that front flip a doe on the run makes when you pop her w/ a 7mm mag from 25 yards.
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If the tree is planted in farm plot/tree patch, it respawns. If you plant a tree in the garden of your house, you cannot cut it.
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Worms don't really have much in the way of a brain or nervous system, so I doubt they mind.  As far as other animals, I used to be against it but I've become rather desensitized to it... Many more animals are killed to become food or fur, or killed for sport... I have to deal with killing mice on a regular basis to feed snakes... They are low on the food chain for a reason.  A few humanely euthanized rats here and there for students to learn is a small price to pay.  As a bio student, there really is no replacement for learning first hand on the real thing.  My favorite dissection was a fetal pig in high school... Very interesting.  The only time I took offense was a mink dissection, and that is because the school was actually getting the minks from fur farms and paying for them, so our experiments were fueling the fur trade...
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Interesting question - I'm glad you are thinking about morality and I would like to hear what the anti-fur people have to say about this. If they're not vegetarians, I'd like to hear why they treat some animals (their pets) extremely well while eating others. And why don't the anti-fur people complain about wearing leather? And why aren't they saying anything about the millions of modern day human slaves? I think it is important to have a consistent and logical justification for my own actions!\n\nI believe that *IF* the animals are treated humanely, there is no difference between eating them and wearing their fur. Remember that fur is a renewable resource, but synthetic fur comes from oil, a limited resource.\n\nNot all furs are harvested inhumanely, but the grisly image of clubbing seals and trapping beavers overpowers reality. So anyone who treat their animals well don't necessarily get the credit they're due. Sad that appearances often play a bigger role than facts when making decisions.\n\nIt would probably be more productive if the anti-fur people created a reporting scheme to give credit to those who treat animals well and somehow gave a seal of approval to them. I think most of my countrymen would rather purchase fur products from this type of source than people who maltreat animals.\n\nRegarding your point on the the nutrients in meat, it is possible to be a healthy vegetarian, except that even vegans need vitamin B-12, which only comes from animal sources. And it is almost impossible to avoid eating insect parts in grains, so there is really no such thing as a human who has never eaten animals.
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No people do not have to eat animals to survive, however PEOPLE COME FIRST BEFORE ANIMALS.  So the crazy ones (not all of them) at PETA need to think about blinding a person due to their paint throwing tatics!  Yes, people should think about the environment, yes to carpool, Yes trees need to be replace
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well, defintely NOT in the bacon/ham isle.....may be your friends there....cruel people....how can the kill such wonderful animals??????\n\ntry a farm house...maybe old mcdonald will have a nice pig mate for ya\n\n;)
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People who eat meat aren't hypocrites. We were meant to eat meat. Humans have been eating meat since the dawn of time. Humans however, have NOT been raising animals in tiny little cages and slaughtering them for the sole purpose of ripping their skin off and wearing it since the dawn of time. I also don't believe in hunting unless what is killed is eaten. You don't see lions on the African plains chasing down a gazell to remove it's fur and cover up with it.
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Because people are realizing that animals are made out of MEAT. And meat tastes good. The more innocent the animal, the better they taste, too.
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I wouldn't eat under cook meat at all. But Mad Cow -you can get from even cooked meat-the disease is in the meat. Because the country wanted to produce fatter and bigger producers of milk and meat-we have literaly poisoned our livestock-we inject them, we feed them (vegetarians by nature) animal by products in their food, all sorts of poisons. Their offspring's are messed up for day one. We have more poisons in our food than anywhere else. Money was the motivator. And the FDA will not admit it!! Look on web for more information. Thats is why new groups our forming-for more grass fed-or range free and antibiotic free eggs and such. Ashame of our country for this but it will continue until people start fighting back.