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3 Reasons Why Eating Meat is Moral

1/30/2014

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I support people who want to be vegans or vegetarians %100 but I don’t support the claim that meat consumption is inherently immoral. So I've decided to share my top 3 reasons why meat consumption is not only moral but an important piece of who we are.
3.       Meat is Healthy
Growing up many of us were told that meat is unhealthy, it makes people fat and will clog your arteries. Luckily, in recent years the studies which were thought to prove this have been largely debunked* and most all health professionals maintain that animal flesh is actually highly nutritious.* Meat contains high levels of protein, good fats and large amounts of vitamins B3, B6, A, D, K, Iron, Zinc, and Selenium just to name a few.* But by far the most important nutrient to be gotten from animal products is B12 which cannot be found in any vegetable source. B12 is so important that low levels can cause intense fatigue, mental depression, irreparable nerve damage and a myriad of other serious and debilitating symptoms.* So I ask you, how can something necessary for maintaining basic human health be essentially immoral?
2.       Meat is in Our Genes
What might likely be the strongest evidence in favor of meat consumption is that humans have been eating meat for over two millions years. Not only have we been consuming this product for more time than we can fathom, data also suggests that increasing meat consumption allowed early humans to develop a larger brain size and many other important evolutionary traits that we see in modern humans.* The fact that eating animals changed our basic physiology brings a whole new meaning to the phrase you are what you eat. Sure, if a person wants to be vegan all the more power to them, but to say that killing an animal for food is inherently morally unjust is not only contrary to nature it is antithetical to an intrinsic part of our humanity and evolution.
1.       Death is an Important Part of Life
Untold numbers of animals brutally consume each other each day, over 1 million people die weekly from a myriad of painful and excruciating conditions and despite this massive daily blood bath I only attended my first funeral at age 17.  I also never saw a dead body until my mom passed away at 25 and didn’t witness my first animal slaughter until about 1 year later. People in modern society have become extremely detached from death and I believe that this is heavily rooted in our near total alienation from animal slaughter, which used to be a commonly witnessed phenomenon. This extreme separation from death has created a cycle in which our detachment causes fear and disgust, people then push death further away which in turn creates greater and greater fear. Much of the problem I have with the vegan and vegetarian movements is that while teaching people about the horrors of the modern meat business they also intensify people’s ungrounded fear of death. These movements often use propaganda and lies to play on the people’s fears in order to guilt and scare them into a certain lifestyle which only perpetuates this cycle. Truly learning where my meat comes from and participating in the life and death process has helped me not only eat more morally but also to break the cycle of fear in my life. I truly do support individuals who choose to not eat meat but as a society I think it better to try to cope with and understand animal slaughter and consumption rather than reject and demonize this important part of our God given nature.
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Jerry link
1/30/2014 10:11:18 am

The reason why most meat bought in supermarkets is said to be unhealthful is that the animals are raised in feedlots, can't exercise, and especially are fed a diet composed preponderantly of grain. This raises the level of saturated fat in the muscle (meat) and it is that saturated fat that clogs our arteries. In animals raised on grass, meaning pasture in summer and hay in winter, there is less fat--not no fat--and its unsaturated composition is healthful and does not clog our arteries. Another unhealthful aspect of meat consumption in American society is barbecuing it until it's too done. This favors carcinogens in the meat that can cause colon cancer. If meat is prepared in a broiler under a flame rather than on a grill over a flame, the fat drips away into a pan rather than onto an open flame only to rise again as carcinogenic smoke back onto the surface of the meat.

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Yadidya Greenberg
2/2/2014 11:36:18 am

I'm sure that the fat composition of animals raised on grain is worse than that of animals raised on grass but I'm not so sure that saturated fat is all that bad for you. I'm no expert on the matter but I've heard differing opinions. Also that certain types of saturated fats are better than others.

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Jordan
2/6/2014 11:07:53 pm

How do you feel about hunting? Of course hunting is not Kosher for harvesting meat, but I feel that an animal which spends its life roaming free in the wild eating nuts and berries to be taken legally as an adult is more humane then cramped and filthy conditions than standard cattle lots. Thoughts?

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Yadidya Greenberg
2/10/2014 03:04:05 pm

I am highly supportive of hunting. While it is not a solution of feeding the entire world it can help feed many in an ethical way. While I would support reintroducing predators where possible to replace hunters as population thinners in places where this has not been done of is not possible hunting serves as an important ecological tool. In Talmudic literature it is actually clear that hunting used to be practiced regularly by religious Jews. While this might not be our path today I do not feel that hunting in any way goes against kosher or Jewish thinking.

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Yadidya Greenberg
2/10/2014 03:06:47 pm

BTW Factory farming is not necessary to feed the world either, rather it will destroy the world before it feeds it. Sustainable animal agriculture in conjuncture with reduced meat intake is in my estimation the best and most sustainable way to provide food for the world's growing populace.

Grace
6/30/2014 10:36:11 pm

I do not agree, yes, we all need to live with meat, and so do other animals. It is just like me killing you and it may be in our genes, and I am about to change that. I am a lot different to my family because of me officially becoming a vegetarian, proofs you completly wrong,
Hope you agree,

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Grace
6/30/2014 10:40:58 pm

If you would like to learn more please go on youtube or go to a DVD store and watch a movie about killing animals and how they do kill them.
I nearly throw up watching them kill animals just so they can live.
Please look at those movies

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