We are humans which means that we are meant to eat meat. I completely understand that animals in large slaughterhouses are treated like crap in the short life they live. I also understand that it's "cruel" because animals feel pain and they have emotions just like us. At the end of the day, they're going to die and end up on our dinner plates. That's just life; however, someone should come up with a better/ cleaner way to take care of the animals prior to them being killed because that's just the right thing to do. They are already on their way to being slaughtered the best thing to do it to at least keep them happy. On the other hand, I don't agree with the people that think animals shouldn't be killed at all because like I said before we are supposed to eat meat. Circle of life. Blah blah blah. I was just thinking about how animals go about their day perfectly fine eating each other and not caring about the emotions of their food... just something to consider.
Then there is this whole thing with respect which is mentioned in the articles. I do agree that animals deserve respect but only to a certain extent. If you need to shoot down a cow in order to eat, I believe that it is fine, but obviously it's not right to just start hitting your dog or keeping animals all locked up and not taken care of AT ALL. That's just common sense though like really?? OBVIOUSLY ANIMAL ABUSE ISNT OKAY. Also, I really can't believe in one of these articles it mentioned something about having respect for plants. No. Just no. Yeah take care of the environment, but you don't have to like go outside and have a play date with your garden so you can make your flowers happy. That's probably not even what it meant, but that's exactly what I'm picturing. Lol.
I felt like this was all over the place, but I don't care (: I just needed to let off some steam because this topic drives me crazy.
I completely get what you're saying. We as humans are made to eat meat and I don't understand why people are so opposed to it. Obviously, I do not have a problem with people who are vegetarians or vegans, but sometimes they make you feel bad for not deciding to be like them. I just think that if we're going to eat the animals, they should at least get treated a little better while they're in captivity. Plants and animals are there, so we can take advantage of all that they can offer us, so long as we don't intentionally cause them pain
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly how I feel, we should not be treating animals badly but also we shouldn't have to stop eating meat. This is how the world goes animals eat other animals and we eat animals but that does not mean we should make them live in terrible conditions or do horrible experiments on them.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with everything you're saying. It's all kind of contradictory. Like the same person that's saying " yes animals deserve it all!!" is also the same person saying "I could never give up eating meat." It's a confusing topic.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly what I'm feeling, that other animals have that right of respect, but not to an extent where we should give them social contact and toys like one of the authors suggests about pigs. Pigs are not humans, so they don't need any of that and never did. I agree with the fact that eating meat is part of the circle of life for humans and for other carnivores and omnivores too, and it shouldn't stop just because the discovery of emotion (with only a small amount of factual evidence) is found in nonhuman animals. It's survival of the fittest.
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