Vegetarianism

Topic started by N (@ cache-cro-hsi.cableinet.co.uk) on Sun Dec 22 18:35:04 .
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I would like to apologise in advance for the following opinion, which I think is a bit mad and excessive. But to hell with it, I wrote it, these are my opinions, and I suppose I should take responsibility for them. Respond as you think fit.

I believe every man, woman and child has a right to eat meat. If a wild animal isn't condemned for eating meat, then why should we be condemned for producing meat for ourselves? It makes no sense to me.

I'm not saying vegetarianism is wrong, but If I want to eat meat I will and I don't have to answer to anyone.

Where did the idea that vegetarianism is an evolution of mankind come from? On what grounds? It is blatantly wrong.

If I was starving, of course I'd eat meat. I'm sure most meat eaters would eat dog or worms if they were starving, but they probably don't choose to do this very often on an everyday basis.

Humans are omniverous and have always eaten meat, except in those societies in which meat was rejected for moral reasons. If we didn't kill these animals they would be hunted by other animals.

Traditional peasant farming methods - ecologically the most sustainable - involve striking a balance between animal and plant foods. Animals are needed to fertilise fields. They can turn unproductive marginal scrub and grass-lands into food.

This is what my a customer who is a doctor says. " If a pregnant woman comes to antenatal clinic and is vegetarian then she becomes a high risk pregnancy. Why? Because the vast majority of vegetarians, particularly vegans, become anaemic as a result of pregnancy and with the high blood loss during delivery, this puts them at risk. Now, I know that there are vitamin and iron supplements out there but there are meat eaters who are pregnant who need to take these so vegetarians often struggle to avoid anaemia in pregnancy. What about non- pregnant people, yes it is true you can try and supplement your diet with tablets and artificial supplements but this is often not that effective and also have side effects. For instance iron causes bowel disturbances. The easiest and most healthy way to maintain a balanced diet is by eating meat. This is no accident, it is the way our bodies are designed. We have enzymes that break down meat and meat products, such as milk, our digestive systems handle meat better than artificial products. I find it confusing that a lot of vegetarians believe in natural health remedies but take artificial ones when it suits them."

People are saying my arguments are unsubstantiated. Iron, Vitamin D, Calcium etc etc. These can all be found aplenty in meat-free foods, but let's face it, meat is a much better source. I don't know any veggie's who eat 12 lettuces and 19 tins of beans a day, and it is quantities like that where you can get the vitamins and minerals.

Why is eating animals more morally wrong than eating plants?? I want a vegetarian to answer this for me. Is it because animals have the ability to feel pain. What has that got to do with it. Increasing plant farming has a far more destructive effect on our environment than animal farming. I personally rate plants and animals equally. If anything plants contribute more to environmental stability than animals. They generate oxygen and consume carbon dioxide and animals do the opposite. We are in ecological equilibrium with plants, do vegetarians want to disturb that?
I think if you treat the two main life groups, plants and animals, equally then if we need both for our health, we should kill them for food equally. Let us not be hypocrites.

Let me tell you, we were designed to eat meat!

From our teeth to our digestive system we are made so that we can eat meat, as well as plants. Eating meat is natural, most animals in the world kill other animals for food.

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