if we werent supposed to eat animals then why are they made of meat??
455589
You are made of meat too.
428347
With Mad Cow disease, pumping antibiotics and growth hormones into cattle to fatten them, how can it be safe to consume their flesh?  That's not counting the cancer that runs through their muscles after the "spot" was removed from the carcass.  Chickens pass on Leukemia, and pork was never intended for human consumption if you believe the Word of God.  There ARE "clean" and "unclean" flesh foods of the land, sea, and air, mentioned specifically in Deut. & Leviticus.  If you look up the life-span of pre-flood human beings who were mostly vegetarians you'll be surprised to find they lived hundreds of years.  After the flood, when God gave man permission to eat animal flesh, man's life-span diminished quickly, until 70 years was the "norm."  It's an interesting study.  And yes, I'm a vegan and happy to be one.
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Why wouldn't it be?\nUsing contemporary moral standards:\nSeems that most people have no moral qualms about eating animals.  Vegans and vegetarians are a very, very small minority.\nSaving a human life is generally agreed to be a high moral good.\nTherefore, killing a pig to take its heart valve and transplant it into a human being who otherwise would die, appears to have a higher moral good than killing a pig so that people can eat cheeseburgers with bacon.\n\nOf course, if one wants to use other assumptions the results would be different.  If one assumes that all life is equally precious, whether human or a pig, one would find killing the pig for either reason to be wrong.\n\nIn short, like most questions of morality, it depends on your starting assumptions.
1037804
That does not make sense because PETA means People Eating Tasty Animals.
235949
Actually,God never gave us permission to eat meat. And we do not have control over animals , we force control over them. If we had not killed so many predator animals and they still lived everywhere around us and we were all stripped naked and dropped off without modern luxuries the Grizzly, Gator, snakes and more would control us !!
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Mainly because vegetarians make such a big stink about eating meat and not simply declining it when out in public.  Vegetarians usually make sure everyone knows that they don't eat meat as if it is suppose to be an ethically superior position.
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They routinely grind up meat parts and process it into cattle feed.  That's one reason that they had a problem in Britain with the mad cow's disease - they still let them use, of all things, road kill in the cattle's food.  We never allowed that here.\n\nCow's normally won't eat a piece of meat, at least when it looks like meat and tastes like meat.  And they chew things up very thoroughly, so it is almost impossible that they would "accidentally" eat the stuff.  It is only when it is ground up and dried and slipped in with oats and stuff that they eat it.\n\nSo since they SEEM fine with this, general health wise, I imagine that other plant eaters would seem to be, too.  I believe they do this with poultry feed also.  How they really are or feel.......
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A couple reasons, really.  First, all food chains begin with the plants that make their own energy from photosynthesis.  Without this step, there would only be a small amount of energy on the Earth, and with no way to replenish it, life would essentially cease to function.\n\nSecond, plants are the biggest converters of carbon dioxide to oxygen.  And trust me, that's kind of important.\n\nThird, nutrition.  Humans are omnivores, meaning they eat both plants and meat.  Without plants, the diet would be missing lots of essential nutrients.  Plus you run out of cows to eat when thay have nothing to graze on.
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Grass grows.  Grazing animals (herbivores) eat grass and convert it to flesh.  Meat eating animals (carnivores) catch and eat herbivores.  Carnivores die.  Bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms cause decay.  The decay products help fertilse the grass so it can grow, and the process repeats.\n\nIt is a little more complicated than that, but the  basics are as set out above.
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Here:\nAnimals have as much right to live as a human, but animals taste so much better. Therefore, we shall only eat the non-cute or best tasting animals.\n\nDelicious!\nYou know, this topic bugs me. Animals eat other f*cking animals every day for food, yet it's a problem when humans eat an animal. There are certain nutrients that are needed in order to survive that we get for meat, and they haven't invented Soylent Green yet. Until they do, I'll continue to eat meat.
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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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I grew up in the country.  We feed the animals, gave them names.  Come Christmas we killed a pig. I was about sixteen when they finally let me see the actual slaughter.  Gunshot to the head.  Did it turn me off to meat. Nope.  I just appreciate the animal more.  I know the prepackaged meat comes from livestock that isn't lovingly taken care of.  But sometimes I wonder if my burger is one of the cows we sold off.
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yup. off and on for 15 years... now a full vegan with only occasional lapses with some really good organic cheese (oooh, gouda). \n\nbecause of health (good fats, no build up of mercury or mad cow disease) \n\nenvironmental degradation (eating meat requires 4000 gallons of water a day, vegetarians only consume 300 gallons... plus the loss of our ocean's fish due to overfishing, plus factory farms ....)\n\nand now, because i'm living with and in love with a professional ethicist, i've been persuaded that the animal rights issue is important as well. (it just doesn't make any sense to do to animals the things we do. just too disgusting and unnecessary.)\n\nyou'll get a bunch of answers about how humans are supposedly "not designed" to be vegetarians, but really, we weren't designed to ride in cars either, were we? and we REALLY weren't designed to eat poisonous food, become overweight, and poison our earth in the process.\n\nand BTW, i've never needed any kind of vitamins, and my doc says i'm on the best diet there is (mainstream, reg. doc too). i hardly think a cow was "born to be eaten." like all living things, it was born to live. (and die of old age.)
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Well, if you are asking in terms of god, the Bible says he created the beasts for man to rule over.  In terms of people, certainly they provide us with a source of food, but they also provide plant life with a much needed source of energy.  If all animals died off, it seems likely that humans would die off as well, most likely from disease rather than a lack of food.  If you are going to ask why god created animals, you may as well ask why he or she created plants or planets, or anything else.  Who knows?
102445
I have been a vegetarian my entire life.  I don't give arguments.  I think it is a very personal decision.  Personally I am vegetarian, because it would be hypocritical for me to eat meat.  I couldn't stomach killing anything to eat, so why have anyone else do the dirty work for me?  BTW- I eat incredible, gourmet restaurant vegetarian food.... definately not discusting.
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I am a Mormon, and I am not a vegetarian.\n\nAs far as if it is ALLOWED... I think that some Mormons DO choose to be vegetarians.  There really isn't anything in Mormon doctrine that says anything AGAINST being a vegetarian.  \n\nHowever, I believe that part of the reason animals were put here on this Earth, is to be food for us.  If they die, and they weren't sick, then I think it's a good thing to eat the animals, so the meat isn't needlessly wasted.
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Some like Chicken....some don't......\n\n"ALL" creatures and other forms of life....."kill",destroy, or absorb the nutrients of others....... in one form or fashion....to survive.....the grass growing tall around a dead animal....the cow eating the grass, and man eating the cow.... just a big circle..........never ends....so far!