Am I a bad person?
By cyberfluf
@cyberfluf (4996)
Netherlands
July 22, 2008 8:19am CST
For not being a vegetarian?
I claim that I love animals but I do eat meat. Once I was a vegetarian for a couple of years but I passed out often and felt very weak all the time. My doctor recommended certain foods and replacement stuff that was very expensive and there was no way I could afford all this stuff and neither could my parents.
Ever since that day I started to eat meat again. I try to eat biological meats and check that eggs I get aren't from those horrible farms where they cut of chickens legs and beaks but at least have a little room to wonder around and have a happy life.
Sometimes I feel terrible for eating meat and I try to reduce it to a minimum but on the other hand one could say it's nature and a tiger won't stop and say 'hey, that's ok, you run along poor creature'. Then one could say: 'we have the brain and power and sophistication not to do so'.
What are your points of view?
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3 responses
@theprogamer (10532)
• United States
2 Aug 08
I commend your efforts. I do not think you are a bad person for doing this, nor would I condemn anyone that consumes meat. I like how you bring up the nature equivalent, because people seem to always contradict themselves when they try an evo-bio rationality for mankind and their own actions. For instance, one would claim they don't eat meat out of morals, thereby surpassing the evo-bio tendancy; but when asked about say, preference in a mate... the same people will return to evo-bio "reasoning" (albeit as a poor defence, or an excuse for their own preferences). Its a bit fascinating, humorous and disappointing all at the same time.
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@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
2 Aug 08
I agree, thank you for another lovely and very descriptive response.
Contradicting must be a very human thing, I never saw another living creature doing so.. 
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@ellie333 (21016)
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22 Jul 08
Hi Cyberfluf, I eat meat and I don't feel guilty, it is personal choice and I have some friends who are vegetarian but to me as long as I buy local produce of good quality and the chickens and cattle have been kept well no problem. If I don't eat a certain amount of meat I myself get anemia and feel very week so for me I won't stop. Ellie :D
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@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
22 Jul 08
Allright, so that's called amenia 
. I guess that's the same thing I had and was trying to explain in my best English in my story at the top of the discussion. It made me feel very weak to be purely on veggies too and that made me decide to get back on (little) meat. Thanks for adding the discussions sweety 
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. I guess that's the same thing I had and was trying to explain in my best English in my story at the top of the discussion. It made me feel very weak to be purely on veggies too and that made me decide to get back on (little) meat. Thanks for adding the discussions sweety .
@lisaradgirl (404)
• United States
22 Jul 08
Great discussion. I have thought this same thing I don't know how many times. I have been on and off veggie since I was a kid. About 2 yrs ago I went strict veggie and it was really hard. I didn't like the way I felt either. I now eat chicken, turkey and seafood (as much organic, line caught, free range etc. that I can). Still no beef or Pork. I feel better but I ask myself the same question all the time. Should I really be eating this? Could I kill a chicken and eat it? Is it the natural thing to kill animals and eat them if we don't have to? I just don't know...
@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
22 Jul 08
Great to hear that there are people out there experiencing the same thing. Sometimes I just look down at my plate and feel horrible and I will refuse to eat it, other times it's better but still the ethical question 'what gives me the right to kill a creature and eat it' is hard to answer.
I do feel better eating meat every now and then, I also use fish in my diet which has a great deal of good fats, etc and that helps me a lot. Thanks for sharing!
