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Answer the damn question!

Absolutely not. 150 53.38%
 
No, but the treatment of animals is wrong. 89 31.67%
 
Yes, but I'm still gonna eat meat. 16 5.69%
 
Yes, and I'm lowering my meat-intake 12 4.27%
 
Yes, and I don't eat meat. 14 4.98%
 
Total:281
RedInker said:
We have Incisor teeth for a reason. So eat all the meat you want my friend.


Just mix in some fruits and veggies in there.  I ate all the meat in the world and I came down with appendicitis at the age of 26 or so.  Sure it could have been of karma (another story) but I believe diet had a part in it.   It flared up after a heavy meat bbq intake weekend.  Usually appendicitis doesn't affect people over the age of 25 so it was a semi rare case.



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Start now it doesn't matter how little the help, I visit an old people shelter I mostly help clean them up, move them around and listen to them. It started as a college requirement but now I try to do it once a month.

And I also pay my taxes, not everything goes to schools and hospitals but the goverment in my country has become way less corrupt than before.



I think that for those who possess the means to have a healthy diet devoid of meat, eating meat is morally pretty shady. But I guess I'm a bad person, because I don't plan on eating less meat any time soon.



Rafux said:
Start now it doesn't matter how little the help, I visit an old people shelter I mostly help clean them up, move them around and listen to them. It started as a college requirement but now I try to do it once a month.

And I also pay my taxes, not everything goes to schools and hospitals but the goverment in my country has become way less corrupt than before.


I believe this is a post in the wrong thread.  



I don't think eating meat is wrong, but the current state of the meat industry is pretty disgusting.



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Veknoid_Outcast said:
I don't think eating meat is wrong, but the current state of the meat industry is pretty disgusting.


Live in Europe and meat packing plants in USA take longer to cut up the meat sent to the EU thus minimizing the chance of splitting open the contents of the stomach and infecting the meat.



sethnintendo said:
Rafux said:
Start now it doesn't matter how little the help, I visit an old people shelter I mostly help clean them up, move them around and listen to them. It started as a college requirement but now I try to do it once a month.

And I also pay my taxes, not everything goes to schools and hospitals but the goverment in my country has become way less corrupt than before.


I believe this is a post in the wrong thread.  


You ask me something but I didn't quote it.

By the way for all the people who believe in God, it says in the bible: Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNB0kb1N-pU

It's sad, but I can't stop eating meat, yes I reduced my consume, now I eat half I used to eat. It's hard to stop a custom like this completely.



Jay520 said:

It's natural for humans to eat meat. Firstly, this is debatable as many believe that humans were meant to be solely plant-eaters. I personally don't think it's natural for humans to eat maet. Regardless though, that doesn't warrant anything. Plenty of *natural* actions have been abandoned as humans developed civilizations and used their intelligence to decide what's right and wrong. So saying something is natural is not an excuse for a being capable of higher order thought.

You can debate whether or not eating  herdable animals are right or wrong, that's a fair argument, but humans are meant to eat meat.  We are omnivores not herbivores.  Even chimpanzees eat meat.  It's believed that the fact that our ancestors eating meat helped us along in terms of evolution.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1999a.html

I'm not sure if you're questioning whether you should eat meat at all, or whether you reconsidering eating meat for your own personal health.  My suggestion would be cut back on your meat eating.  Maybe restrict your meat intake to a pound of lean meat per day.  So either fish or chicken.



IMHO eating meat is useless. I stopped eating it years ago and I am totally healthy no sign whatsoever that something is wrong with my blood/body whatever. You just have to understand whats inside the meat you ate all the time and what other food can provide the iron you lose.  Beans is the answer.

We dont have claws we dont really have "canine teeth" the term is wrong to begin with since Pandas Horses Anteelopes etc all have "canine teeth". So having "canine teeth" especially crippled oned we humans have is no sign at all that we should eat any form of meat.

We have alot of problems digesting raw meat because our body is not ment to do that so we cook meat most of the time. Eating meat creates alot of health issues. And most people only eat meat because its smoked or spiced so it tastes good.


Anatomy:
sharp claws, long, sharp teeth, jaws that move only up and down and a large mouth relative to the head enable carnivores to tear off pieces of raw meat from their prey. On the other hand, humans have soft fingernails, flat teeth and jaws that move side-to-side. Human teeth can't really tear flesh from the bone, and their fingernails can't really tear raw meat. Human teeth are bad at breaking up raw meat, but good at grinding foods with lots of fiber, such as grains, fruits and vegetables.

Our ancestors started to eat meat because they left the places with alot of fruits etc so they began to eat meat and since hoarding a ton of animals that reproduce themselves and that you can take with you when your tribe wanders around the world it became "normal" to eat meat.



Eating meat is not natural at all and not healthy  (especially not for the animal you eat lol) That healthy thing is just industry propaganda.

I stopped eating meat because I realized that my  hamburger or steak dont grow on trees and that hundreds of billions of animals are killed for this. Its especially stupid when you realize you have to waste tons of food to feed animals and at the end you have more work to do (grow it, care about them when they get sick, prevend spreading of deseases etc to processing the animal to food) and less food becaue you always need more food to grow animals than the grown up animal can provide. Thats totally useles... makes everything more expensive and as said wastes ressources/cropland we could use to feed people etc.

But its all about the money thanks to meat farmers etc earn more money and the whole food industry earns more money because bread noodles etc everything is more expensive this way.

Whats also hilarious is in Europe/Germany  there is 10% Ethanol Gas. And people whine about it wasting farmland while producing meat wastes even more of that farmland...