Animals have rights but is it OK to eat them??

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

shewolfnm wrote:

yeah, its a good ole game of cat and mouse
loser gets dinner

Shewolf, where did you get that darlin hat? I want one. Do you have one for doggies?

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Questioner, you are so smart. Maddy thanks you for his new chapeaux.

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agrote wrote:

I live with a vegan and have several friends who are vegan.
One of thier biggest arguements when it comes to health alot of vegans I know share, is that we can suppliment what we get from meat with vitamins and diet changes to ensure that we get what we need to survive.

Alot of times, in our discussions, we talk about how someone could reasonably suppliment a lack of veggies with vitamins as well.
The point of the conversation being that , any source of food is able to be supplimented with vitamins given todays technology.
Does that mean we can go with out physically eating? No.
But it does stand to reason that any piece of dietary needs that are missing, can be supplimented, and or obtained through vitamin form.

So what's your point? It seems like you're just reinforcing the veggie/vegan argument that we don't need to eat meat, and therefore shouldn't, because it is 'imorral.' Nobody claims that it's immoral to eat vegetables, so it doesn't matter if we can survive without vegetables - why point that out?

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2. Animals, at least some of them, feel pain. And some animals are conscious to some degree. If we kill them, they tend to suffer. Now this is, as people have said, all very natural. Other animals kill other animals for food; it's what happens. But we humans are very clever, and we've discovered ways to survive and be perfectly healthy without killing any animals. We don't need to kill animals and make them suffer, so maybe we shouldn't?

No, maybe we shouldnt.. .
But that is a question of morality.. not necessarily survival I think.

Yes, of course it's a question of morality. That's what this thread is about, isn't it? Whether it's immoral to eat animals...

Tofu can be pretty gross...but if used by a wise chef, it can be very good.

Actually, hmm...maybe it's not the tofu that's good, but the other stuffed the tofu is mixed with...

Anyway, I'm surprised natural selection hasn't weeded out more of the vegetarians...

Then again, I bet if modern science devised a way to sustain people who don't eat any vegetables, meat, but only water and minerals...people would start fighting for the lettuce's right to live

I'm a vegetarian too...thought I do not believe in suggesting anyone to quit eating meat.

I don't think it's immoral to eat meat. I often wonder why I cannot bring myself to eat meat. I guess i''m not comfortable with eating something that had feelings and emotions (when it was alive)

I think animals have feelings, and their own consciousness that is important.
But I still eat them.

To eat their own.

If a man were wounded and unconscious on the beach and a flock of hungry ducks came upon him would they eat him?

Obviously the ducks would have to be near starvation, but I am willing to wager that if that unconscious man offered them their only hope for survival, those duck bills would be tearing into that flesh in a heartbeat.

flushd wrote:

To eat their own.

lol!!!!!
Someone has a guilty sub-conscious.

Nick17--

You have feelings, don't you? Why would other animals be any different?

And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.