This Makes Me Sad.

[Dreamwalker]

Well, I know what you mean, and personally I have to buy the organic grass-fed beef anyways for health reasons (not the hormone-fed kind), but think of it this way:
We are meant to eat meat. We're omnivores. And, what are you really doing by not eating meat anway? The chicken/cow/whatever has already been killed, and now its just sitting there in the grocery store being wasted. Just saying. Don't mean to offend or anything :p

[Anima]

Hi Dreamwalker, nice to have a jake fan girl here

Originally Posted by Dreamwalker

We are meant to eat meat. We're omnivores.

This only means that we can digest meat, not that we should or have to

Originally Posted by Dreamwalker

And, what are you really doing by not eating meat anway? The chicken/cow/whatever has already been killed, and now its just sitting there in the grocery store being wasted. Just saying. Don't mean to offend or anything :p

No offence taken

If noone bought the meat it wouldt be in the stores for long. Money talks...

[rapunzel77]

Originally Posted by Anima

This only means that we can digest meat, not that we should or have to

This is only your opinion. It isn't wrong to eat meat. We are ommivores and you will not be able to convince billions of people to stop. I agree that there does need to be better practices in how we obtain our meat. I would love to buy organic and free range meat but it is very expensive and I am just a poor woman.

If noone bought the meat it wouldt be in the stores for long. Money talks.

That isn't going to happen. People of every culture, race, etc have been eating meat of various sorts and quanities for thousands of years. Vegetarianism is only possible either in a monastic situation or a completely urban situation. If any of us had to actually live like the Na'vi or live off the land there wouldn't be any vegans. It only works in a completely urban environment away from the actual land.

[Anima]

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

This is only your opinion.

It's not an opinion, it's a fact. We can digest a lot of things we don't have to eat.

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

It isn't wrong to eat meat.

I think that when something causes suffering and is unnecessary it is wrong in some way

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

We are ommivores and you will not be able to convince billions of people to stop.

No noone can do that. But if i convince 1 I still would be happy And if everyone ate less meat, that would change a lot to.

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

I agree that there does need to be better practices in how we obtain our meat.

I agree with you on this one

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

I would love to buy organic and free range meat but it is very expensive and I am just a poor woman.

Theres always someone who has to pay the "cost" for cheap food. That is kind of the essence of the whole problem (the animals, some worker in a poor country, the eviroment and so on). There's a reason "good" food costs more...

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

That isn't going to happen.

No but the lesser meat we buy/eat the lesser will be produced

Originally Posted by rapunzel77

People of every culture, race, etc have been eating meat of various sorts and quanities for thousands of years. Vegetarianism is only possible either in a monastic situation or a completely urban situation. If any of us had to actually live like the Na'vi or live off the land there wouldn't be any vegans. It only works in a completely urban environment away from the actual land.

I manly talk about the western society and the way we abuse the animals and treat them as products without feelings.

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Anima

It's not an opinion, it's a fact. We can digest a lot of things we don't have to eat.

And can't digest things we didn't evolve to survive exclusively on.

I think that when something causes suffering and is unnecessary it is wrong in some way

I agree. I don't like factory farming of animals, or killing them in inhumane ways.

No but the lesser meat we buy/eat the lesser will be produced

I never said that it's the only thing to eat, but it IS important to get some in a healthy diet. It doesn't need to be often, just once or twice a week.

I manly talk about the western society and the way we abuse the animals and treat them as products without feelings.

I agree that that's wrong, but there's still nothing wrong with actually raising animals for food.