The thing with having intelligence is that it might also make you 'smart' enough to rationalise something really stupid, like not eating meat. Isn't that ironic, that only an animal as wise as humans is capable of consciously making a very bad decision?
Id say about 80% of the meat I consume a year, is what I've killed and processed myself. That's one steer, elk, mule deer, rabbit, chickens, and game fowl. I respect people's choice to not eat meat, it's my choice to eat meat and that should be respected as well.
I agree, to an extent. I personally feel that raising animals on farms, for the sole purpose of killing them for food, is cruel. A lot of people think that hunting animals is mean and cruel, but I disagree with them. At least with hunting, the animal has a chance to escape, and they live an otherwise normal life in the wild.
Oh, but hunting is definitively mean and cruel. Were someone hunting you I bet you'd agree. There's no escaping it, that getting meat in any way other than though science is going to be mean and cruel. So is it worth it? I say yes, because they world isn't supposed to be nice and kind, nor mean and cruel. In fact, such concepts do not really exist anywhere outside of the brains of primates. I say let us adapt to the world, rather than the other way around.
Would I rather spend my life free in the woods with a 90% chance of being shot by a hunter or on a farm with a 100% chance that I'll be slaughtered as soon as I get fat enough? In comparison, I think I'd go for the former. That poll up there is incomplete. I miss the answer "I don't want animals to suffer, but I eat them anyway because they taste so good."
Point is, is putting a bullet through the head of an innocent grazing moose mother mean and cruel? Yes, it is. the poll is obviously biased. I didn't take it seriously.
Sure. I guess there are different degrees of cruel. As you said, only humans seem to have a concept of cruelty. And I don't think the poll was meant to be taken seriously
Greetings, As I am human I recognize that I am animal at the same time but do not find interest in lowering myself to a species that is greatly less intelligent than my kind. Test is void and null. Saggezza, Tuo Padre
And it's in my nature to do so. Protein and fat from eating animals also makes me healthier than a withering plant murderer.
Sounds like the best solution is to just eat people, as they are the ones causing all the senseless slaughter of animals and plants...
