Animals are NOT created for your disposal!

I love animals, and I care more about them than I do humans, but that's still not going to make me become a vegetarian. I would like all animals to be treated well, whether raised for consumption or not. But harassing people who aren't vegetarian and treating them like they're evil is a very PETA thing to do, and everyone should know by now that while they might be "vegetarians" that doesn't mean they actually care about animals or their well-being.

Thank you very much for all the comments.

One thing that surprising me how an argument against gets you defend your diet with a very aggressive tone.

There is a whole discipline called ethics and vegetarianism is a major topic of it. And that was my point, evolution/naturalism/health are apart from my discussion ground in this article. I argue that it is unethical.

for -

no harm principle for the members of moral community (Kant)
inclusion to the moral community based on the fact that one can suffer (Singer)
The animal has feelings. It is motivated to experience pleasure, enjoys the life and fears death. When witnessed each other's butchering, understands who is the butcher and tries to escape. (...)
Thus, a part of moral community.
We ought not harm.

Singer already agrees, and I concur, that humans can eat animals (or other humans) in extreme conditions of hunger.

Lastly, I understand that some may find it tasty and the taste of food may be way too important for them, so they can't give up and feel offended. I'd ask you not to take my comments personal, try to distance from your practices and judge afterwards.

After all, there may also be people who finds human flesh "delicious". Would you buy it when he says "Why are you so delicious then?" before cutting your head off.

Oh man, vegans are forming their own religion.

First off, animals aren't "created" at all. Herp derp. They propagate themselves.

And as much as you'd loooove to pretend that humans are somehow vegans biologically, they're not. If we were herbivores, we wouldn't be able to digest meat.

Now if you wanna change yourself, that's fine. But the great apes have been eating meat, and even each other, for as long as they've existed. The facts are against you.

Veganism is a choice, not a fundamental truth.

I kill animals and I eat them, and I have no qualms about this. You do, and that's the end of the line.

If you want people to join your movement, try talking to them instead of throwing poo at them.

meat is murder...delicious murder

animals eat other animals. its totally natural. do we eat too much meat? yes.

I would highly recommend this story.

http://current.com/items/88908066_sugar-is-the-heroin-of-the-masses-advice-on-ho...

Well as far as I'm concerned, if something you eat has to sit and rot in your intestines for 3 weeks in order to be digested...I will pass.
Doesn't exactly sound like something the human body was meant to eat.

I mean, don't get me wrong. Evolution is a great thing. At one point in human history it was hard to find food that we gathered as we moved along. So we used our smarts and ate animals. But humans sure are creatures of habit.

Now, we don't exactly have the problem of finding produce in this day and age.

Plus it's healthier and more eco friendly.

I've been vegan for almost 2 months now and I have never felt better.

If you dudes eat all the plants what are the animals gonna eat? So basically you can either kill both plants and animals...or be like me and eat animals and save the plants!

you should find out what's in those steaks and how much it's costing you in scarce natural resources and human rights, you might be thinking about those things a bit differently

Lol what about the plants man, they have a right to grow too!

Please. Animals are animals and we can do with them as we will. What's wrong with eating a steak? Nothing, that cow probably wouldn't have even been born had it not been for the farmers taking the time to raise them. It helps their numbers aye...we're just trying to make sure they survive.

If you want to be a vegetarian, please go right ahead, good for you...but don't act like it's a crime to eat meat.

man i was just thinking about that free 72 oz steak down in texas...it wouldn't sound as appealing if it was a free 72 oz carrot...unless you are a rabbit...(if you happen to be a rabbit and you are reading this...I lost your foot along time ago...get off my back!)

I quit eating meat and dairy products now for 7 wks. At first I was worried that I wouldn't get enough protein, cutting out chicken, fish, red meat and cheese. The fact is that we really don't need that much protein in our diet, 20 to 50 grams a day is enough even for people who train and go to the gym like I do.Beans are an excellent source of protein.

I would agree that animals were not "created" for us. That was more of an evolution thing. We evolved to eat some animals and some animals evolved to eat us. Fortunately most of us are smart enough not to play with the lions and tigers and bears. Especially the polar bears...GRRR! That being said most Americans probably do eat too much meat in their diet.

it's 9:40 in the morning and I can't stop thinking about steak. Thanks.

BTW medium rare FTW

"people consider animals to be actually created for our consumption…"

Almost without exception the animals we eat *were* specifically created, collectively and individually, for our consumption.

Meat animals have been specifically bred to meet tastes and farming practices - you think those are natural, wild cows in the field? These animals exist purely for our consumption - without our desire to eventually eat them they would not exist. Until they are eaten they wander round fields munching grass.

In fact, these animals are oftentimes treated better than much of the human population of the world. Which is why more rational people focus on *human* rights.

Now if you'll excuse me my steak is getting cold.

I agree with vegetarianism, and all scientific studies show that vegetarians live relatively linger and healthier lives. HOWEVER, science also shows that the Human Animal is OMNIVOROUS.

Then why are they so delicious?

if you forget your history you have no past and no future.

great article. depressing and true, but a good message to remind people of.