Eating meat and killing animals is the same?

Well honestly speaking, i love meat and i love animals too. so this really gets me perplexed. But anyway my stand on this is that, we people also need meat specially red meat because they are source of heme iron and also protein. And i think maybe that's why God made chickens in the first place. Anyway, we don't butcher them for fun but for a purpose. Well even animals eat animals and we humans are considered as complex animals. If meat eating was unacceptable before, do think our olden times ancestors will survive and we are still here? But although i don't oppose to eating meat, I do oppose to butchering domestic animals or pets. that is just so cruel. Hehehe.. But well it is good to respect others side too. Anyway they are entitled for it. :)

Hi Silvercoin, It is your friends choice to be a vegetarian and yours to eat meat. I like you have never killed an animal to eat it but do eat meat. I have never known a vegetarian tiger, they kill to eat and no one sees any wrong in that. He is saying that indirectly meat eaters are killers but plants are living things too so next time tell him he killed that cabbage in his fridge lol. huggles. Ellie :D

No it wouldn't. Technically if you eat plants, you are killing them too.

at the end of the day, nature has a food chain. Like it or not, we are carnivorous by design, and we need those proteins and other nutrients provided by eating meat. Vegetarians actually deprive their bodys of things that their diet requires. The fact that we dont all kill our own food is purely because we have become a civilised species. We have laws and ethics when it comes to the preparation of meat for consumption, and many people are actually glad that the meat that they eat has been killed humanely (most countries have strict laws and checks that they must abide by). Vegetarianism is a choice that I can bear people making, but at the end of the day. it only means that either there is more meat for others to eat, or the meat that they could have eaten goes to waste. For example, I've been to buffets before where the vegetarians have eaten only the vegetables and there has been a lot of meat produce left over and thrown away. This is pure insanity. They achieve nothing. The best thing they could actually do is check that they know where meat produce comes from, go and check out the premises for themselves if they wish, and then just eat the meat! a lost crusade as far as I'm concerned.

It may differ from religion to religion. As far as Buddhist is concern eating is as same as killing. Why to kill if those who eats does not eat. It is sin to kill animals and eat their meat. It is beleived that the sin does not divide among the number of people eating meat of particular animal.

yes you are hundred percent right as if you eat meat you are also a victim of killing animal because each and every time they killed animals if we ask more and more for eating meta. A lot of people are eating meat daily that is why they kill animals to fulfill our needs. to be a vegetarian is good for health also.

As a kid i never liked the sight of a butcher sliting the throat of a hen or a goat --- used to feel bad for the poor ones!What did i do then ? Stopped visiting those farms lol ... i really enjoy having meat!Got no plans to hop onto vegeterian diet.Great day.

Hey silvercoin, by my opinion eating meat is the same thing as killing an animal. If people would became vegetarian, meat would not be used anymore, and animals would be saved. Im a meat eater, and when i eat i dont really care about a pig or any other animal.

I agree with your friend statement. Because of this, i had to admit that i killed animals. But i will said i will not be a vegetarian because of this statament. Of course, i will temporily be a vegetarian 1-2 days a week. From my point of view sometimes, its not convenience for a vegeterian to get food because not much vegeterian restaurant in my area.