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Originally posted by Sydney
The only reason why people continue to eat meat is because of selfishness, those meat-eaters who are not selfish may use the excuse of ignorance.
When you ask someone why they eat meat, they occasionally respond with "Because it tastes good." But ofen they become agressive and start spouting "facts" about humans being omnivorous, or needing protein from meat, or iron, or some other idea that they really have very little understanding of. It has long since been established that a human being will live perfectly healthy on a diet consisting of non-animal products.
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Before I start losing this argument, I would like to say that while you, as always, are very good at getting a point across, I'm getting quite tired of hearing you fanatically push this vegetarian stuff on us. Now, I know that this is not your intent, but I do find it offensive. The truth hurts, some say (applying to other meat eaters and I)... but perhaps you could lay off on calling us greedy and ignorant
You, perhaps, are correct about the "greedy" statement. But I know for a fact that I eat meat for 2 reasons, both of which aren't greed.
1. I enjoy the taste.
2. I'm too
lazy (not greedy) to stop eating meat.
Everytime I eat meat (which is only on rare occasions now, as if that makes a difference) I
do know that this was once
alive. If I was willing to put forth more effort to stop eating things that were once alive, I would. Now I know this
sounds greedy and ignorant, that is not the case. It's just I really don't care. It's just the kind of person I am. Call me insensitive, call me uncompassionate, but it the end, that is the only "excuse" I have for eating meat. I just don't care enough to stop eating things that were once living, breathing creatures, like you and I.
Another thing I noticed is that several butchers are meat eaters. All hunters that go out and kill animals for fun actually eat what they have killed, even after they know that they are the cause of the animals demise. So I guess that steps up to your challenge. Even if we did have to kill our flesh before we ate it, people would soon consider this a common ritual, and things would go on as they always had. Humans eating meat, for no other reason but to feed their bellies.