Author Topic: meat or no meat? (Read 2071 times)

Matrilwood · « **Reply #15 on:** October 21, 2010, 05:03:02 AM »

I don't mind eating meat because I know that my food had a chance to live a good life. (I don't like eating lamb because it is usually slaughtered young) I dislike the idea of vegetarianism because if everyone became vegetarian there would be no more need to have cattle and if we don't need cattle any-more then the farmers won't want them anymore because they will cost to much to keep and they will all get shot.

In other words, for every vegetarian meal you eat, a baby-cow dies. *Wonders if this statement will turn people off vegetables*

josh_down · « **Reply #16 on:** October 21, 2010, 09:55:08 AM »

Quote from: Matrilwood on October 21, 2010, 05:03:02 AM

I don't mind eating meat because I know that my food had a chance to live a good life. (I don't like eating lamb because it is usually slaughtered young) I dislike the idea of vegetarianism because if everyone became vegetarian there would be no more need to have cattle and if we don't need cattle any-more then the farmers won't want them anymore because they will cost to much to keep and they will all get shot.

In other words, for every vegetarian meal you eat, a baby-cow dies. *Wonders if this statement will turn people off vegetables*

lol... please believe that i mean this in the least offensive way possible... but that's a load of rubbish.

cows have other uses other than providing the world with food.

Matrilwood · « **Reply #17 on:** October 21, 2010, 08:51:10 PM »

Quote from: josh_down on October 21, 2010, 09:55:08 AM

That's a load of rubbish

Ok, put in a better view point, I believe in the food-circle (The food-chain is flawed). Plants grow, herbivores eat the plants, carnivores eat the herbivores, carnivores die and their nutrients are returned to the earth, plants absorb these nutrients and the circle continues. The carnivore's role is to maintain the population of herbivores and prevent them from eating all the plants, which would break the circle. Mother nature wants us to be omnivores. That's why we eat meat and vegetables. By being herbivores or carnivores we're defying the will of mother-nature, something humans are very good at.