Eating meat and killing animals is the same?

Lithuania
March 19, 2011 10:41am CST
I had this conversation with my vegetarian friend.He was very strict about eating meat.He asked me if I kill animals.I said no,that I never tried to do that, even when I was asked for a help in cousin's farm.Then he asked:who killed this chicken that is now in laying in your fridge?It wasn't you, of course,but you're doing the crime because someone kill animals so you could eat them, and then the discussion became even more tough.He said:eat meat, kill animals.No meat, no killing.What side are you on?I respect his point of view, but it doesn't make me an instant vegetarian.What do you think?Would these statements make you a vegetarian?
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@flapiz (22403)
• United Kingdom
19 Mar 11
Well honestly speaking, i love meat and i love animals too. so this really gets me perplexed. But anyway my stand on this is that, we people also need meat specially red meat because they are source of heme iron and also protein. And i think maybe that's why God made chickens in the first place. Anyway, we don't butcher them for fun but for a purpose. Well even animals eat animals and we humans are considered as complex animals. If meat eating was unacceptable before, do think our olden times ancestors will survive and we are still here? But although i don't oppose to eating meat, I do oppose to butchering domestic animals or pets. that is just so cruel. Hehehe.. But well it is good to respect others side too. Anyway they are entitled for it. :)
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• Lithuania
19 Mar 11
Ancestors of vegetarians, I wonder what did they do in the wild life?
@ellie333 (21016)
19 Mar 11
Hi Silvercoin, It is your friends choice to be a vegetarian and yours to eat meat. I like you have never killed an animal to eat it but do eat meat. I have never known a vegetarian tiger, they kill to eat and no one sees any wrong in that. He is saying that indirectly meat eaters are killers but plants are living things too so next time tell him he killed that cabbage in his fridge lol. huggles. Ellie :D
@flapiz (22403)
• United Kingdom
19 Mar 11
Hi Ellie :) You totally have a point there. Plants are indeed considered living things too. Biology class. If one wishes not to kill then maybe they should eat rock? :)
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• Lithuania
19 Mar 11
I've read somewhere on the internet that there is a group of people who don't peel tomatoes because they believe vegetables experience pain.They are called fruitarians. I'd like to see their blood test.This is crazy.
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@dawnald (85129)
• Shingle Springs, California
22 Mar 11
No it wouldn't. Technically if you eat plants, you are killing them too.
@la_chique (1498)
19 Mar 11
at the end of the day, nature has a food chain. Like it or not, we are carnivorous by design, and we need those proteins and other nutrients provided by eating meat. Vegetarians actually deprive their bodys of things that their diet requires. The fact that we dont all kill our own food is purely because we have become a civilised species. We have laws and ethics when it comes to the preparation of meat for consumption, and many people are actually glad that the meat that they eat has been killed humanely (most countries have strict laws and checks that they must abide by). Vegetarianism is a choice that I can bear people making, but at the end of the day. it only means that either there is more meat for others to eat, or the meat that they could have eaten goes to waste. For example, I've been to buffets before where the vegetarians have eaten only the vegetables and there has been a lot of meat produce left over and thrown away. This is pure insanity. They achieve nothing. The best thing they could actually do is check that they know where meat produce comes from, go and check out the premises for themselves if they wish, and then just eat the meat! a lost crusade as far as I'm concerned.
• Lithuania
19 Mar 11
It's a choice, I agree.Starving children can't choose that's why they eat what they are offered.
@tenrajj (911)
• Bhutan
19 Mar 11
It may differ from religion to religion. As far as Buddhist is concern eating is as same as killing. Why to kill if those who eats does not eat. It is sin to kill animals and eat their meat. It is beleived that the sin does not divide among the number of people eating meat of particular animal.
• Lithuania
19 Mar 11
Buddhism is a very advanced religion when it comes to non-violence.I'm glad it does exist.
• Delhi, India
19 Mar 11
yes you are hundred percent right as if you eat meat you are also a victim of killing animal because each and every time they killed animals if we ask more and more for eating meta. A lot of people are eating meat daily that is why they kill animals to fulfill our needs. to be a vegetarian is good for health also.
• Lithuania
19 Mar 11
I think to be part-time vegetarian would be a compromise for everyone.
@la_chique (1498)
19 Mar 11
Or just to have 5 fruit and veg a day along with a meat item like everyone should be doing anyway?
@sunnycool (12714)
• India
20 Mar 11
As a kid i never liked the sight of a butcher sliting the throat of a hen or a goat --- used to feel bad for the poor ones!What did i do then ? Stopped visiting those farms lol ... i really enjoy having meat!Got no plans to hop onto vegeterian diet.Great day.
@Luwiego (622)
• Israel
20 Mar 11
Hey silvercoin, by my opinion eating meat is the same thing as killing an animal. If people would became vegetarian, meat would not be used anymore, and animals would be saved. Im a meat eater, and when i eat i dont really care about a pig or any other animal.
@cmang83 (285)
• Malaysia
20 Mar 11
I agree with your friend statement. Because of this, i had to admit that i killed animals. But i will said i will not be a vegetarian because of this statament. Of course, i will temporily be a vegetarian 1-2 days a week. From my point of view sometimes, its not convenience for a vegeterian to get food because not much vegeterian restaurant in my area.