vegetarian vs. carnivores

Two tragic victims of Carnism

 

*Side eye* Central California. Yuo cannot escape.



Mostly vegetarian, occasionally eat chicken. Never liked fish much.

 

I eat both. While I can understand where vegetarians/vegans are coming from, I love meat too much to give it up.

 

You eat both Vegetarians and Carnivores?

You're a monster!

 

no no, he eats vegetarians and vegans

 

But really, what is so wrong with eating meat? We have been doing it since forever. If you don't like it, or don't eat it because of ideological reasons, just don't eat it and don't shove your preferences down others throats

 

Humans only began hunting 20,000 years ago-- far from, "since forever". More humans throughout history have lived as foragers who consumed little to no "meat". It's a myth that eating "meat" is "natural". I'm opposed to harming sentient beings which is why I abstain from using animal products. Tell me, if I were cruely raising a dog, cat, child for slaughter (murder), would you shove your "ideological" belief that i shouldn't down my throat? I think if you look closely you'll realize how inconsistently you treat animals based on species membership-- this is called Speciesism.

 

Eating meat is what made our brain develop. If you want to eat dog, go for it. Raising them cruelly is another thing, but who do you want to fool? You are raising it to kill it and then eat. We can eat them if we raise them without cruelty?

Raising people to eat them. Well, murder and cannibalism is what our society says is wrong. There were societies where it was common and normal. Take aztecs for example. Even as they weren't eating people it was a normal thing to kill a lot of them. And what if they decided that they will eat these bodies? At least they wouldn't have hunger problems. And the way they did it they wasted a lot of lifes for nothing.

If you want to be all natural. Cannibalism is natural and very common between animals.

It all depends on ones point of view. There are no good or bad things. There are only currently acceptable and not acceptable things.

It is called food chain.

 

Is there a "reason" that meat is in "quotation marks"?

 

Where did you get your data about human evolution? While it wasn't until about 20,000 years ago that Cro-Magnon man was able to thrive in Ice Age conditions by surviving almost entirely on big game, fossil records show that human ancestors have been hunting game animals for at least 200,000 years, and were eating meat opportunistically long before then.

 

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Heh yeah, remember when maintaining a meat diet had other, more immediate health implications?

 

I am wondering the same thing. Where did you get that humans did not eat meat prior to 20,000 years ago (which is pretty much 'since forever' or at least long enough to be able to define it as natural behaviour)

 

Before I became vegan, my mum was a veggie and I never understood why, I used to think she was stupid 'by not eating meat doesn't mean that you'll save any animals' etc. But its weird, when I became vegan it was due to me having a 'realisation' and I literally couldnt even be around meat. Like within a split second I went from loving eating meat to feeling sick just at the thought of it.. I agree with not pushing opinions, the only time I do is when I come across an idiot that has no other intention than to piss me off without taking into account reasonings or preferences - there seems to be lots of people like that out there lol

 

I am a freerangertarian where possible.

 

Meats my thing, nothing does it for me like a good rare T-Bone steak seasoned just right.

However, some veggi's have a special place in my heart to...Can never had to many potato's.

 

I just Eat To Live

 

Good point. I am a vegetarian but have no doubt whatsoever that I would eat anything if I was put in a survival situation - that includes other humans

 

There isn't really an option for me here, I eat about 80% vegan foods!! I'm loving my new diet

 

Herbivore
Mmm... bunny food