Is my justification of eating meat good and valid?

[Eukaryote]

This is the reason I believe it's okay to eat animals:

If the animals I eat had not been born so people could eventully eat them, they would have never been born at all and would have never lived.

 

[El_Machinae]

Maybe.

My wife and I eat one of our babies every nine months using the same reasoning. We figure the baby wouldn't have been conceived if we weren't planning to eat it ...

(baby-back, baby-back, baby-back ribs)

 

[Red Door]

There's no need for justification of eating meat.

 

[Marla_Singer]

This is actually true, though it remains a bit scary when we think about it.

Most of the chicken we eat have leaved 2 months in a cage among hundreds of thousands of other chickens and all this in big warehouses. Their life is reduced to a mere industrial process.

 

[Evil Tyrant]

This is the reason I believe it's okay to eat animals:

If the animals I eat had not been born so people could eventully eat them, they would have never been born at all and would have never lived.

I don't like it, and I eat meat. Animals are not human, so it is ok to eat them in my book.

 

[Sophie 378]

Most of the chicken we eat have leaved 2 months in a cage among hundreds of thousands of other chickens and all this in big warehouses. Their life is reduced to a mere industrial process.

That's why I eat organic and free range meat.

 

[Azale]

The whole industrial process thing makes me think of the newest War of the World movie where the aliens used the humans to spray the planet...it was wierd.

Anyway, the justification I use is one of nutrients. Not the best one mind you, since I could easily just supplement that with vitamins...but meat tastes SOOO much better than vitamins.

 

[skadistic]

All this talk of eating babies has left me hungry for veil.

 

[LucyDuke]

OOPS.

I was distracted by spelling and voted for the wrong option. I eat animals sometimes, though not often.

Anyway, it's not a good justification. I don't think you need to justify eating meat any more than you need to justify wearing clothes, but if you want to, come up with a better reason. El_Machinae pretty much nailed it.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I think I would die if I didn't eat meat at least once a day. Eating factory raised animals is great! No justification required!

 

[Prince_Imrahil]

Bad and invalid. Is life itself valuable no matter how that life is lived?

 

[Irish Caesar]

The first reply sums it up nicely.

 

[Prince_Imrahil]

Nah, that maybe ruins it.

 

[Stylesjl]

Not a good reason. However there are still other reasons to eat meat. (Although eating meat is not neccessary to human survival in the modern age)

 

[scipian]

I'm a vegetarian and I don't think your reasoning is good. Not that I think it's bad to eat them. I don't really care. If I were you, my reasoning would be that the animals would be eaten no matter what or at the very worst be wasted if I didn't eat them. Which is true. My vegetarianism is just a food preference and that it seems kind of... gross eating dead carcasses. My views don't care at all about the actual animal.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

This is the reason I believe it's okay to eat animals:

If the animals I eat had not been born so people could eventully eat them, they would have never been born at all and would have never lived.

Why do you care about our opinion on how you justify eating meat to yourself? Seriously, dude, stop caring what other people think about something inconsequential and trivial as this.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I wonder if Lions have these discusions as well.

(I know, bad example, Lions aren't omnivores.)

 

[Ramius75]

That's why I eat organic and free range meat.

but that is more expensive !!

i love meat and probably cant do without it.

My justification is eating animal is to keep me alive, while im at it, try to make it delicious. I dont usually waste food also and keep to domestic animals only except some fishes. I also abstain from eating endangered species like tiger or shark.

i did try to buy free range product when possible, but the only free range egg producer in my country stopped producing them, probably due to low demand.

 

[Narz]

No, your justification is lame. See my response to you in the long vegetarian thread.

 

[GenMarshall]

There is no need for any justification for eating meat. We eat meat because it's part of our diet.