Our Most Common Justifications page has been updated! Here is the new table of contents which you will also find in the right hand column when you go to the web page. You can easily jump to a specific subject of interest just be clicking on one of the items in the table of contents. Once there, you will find ideas for addressing these justifications and several links to additional resources. See the page at freefromharm.org/eating-animals-addressing-our-most-common-justifications/. And here is the table of contents as it currently stands: If I wasn’t meant to eat meat, I wouldn’t have these canine teeth! Humans were designed to eat meat; we are omnivores. Animals eat other animals, so why shouldn’t we? Animals can’t reason like us. They don’t deserve the same treatment. What About Hunting? Wildlife Populations Have to Be Controlled We have been eating meat since the dawn of humankind. Our brains developed from meat eating. We are apex predators at the top of the food chain. Farm animals have a much better life than they would in nature. In the wild they would be eaten alive! Meat eating is as instinctual to us as procreation. Eating animals is part of the cycle of life I only buy cage-free eggs and grass-fed beef! If farm animals were not treated well, they would not produce for farmers. Just because I eat meat doesn’t mean I support animal abuse or cruelty. We can honor animals by showing respect and gratitude for their “sacrifice” Plants are alive too. Don’t vegans believe plants should not be harmed also? If the world went vegan, farmers & slaughterhouse workers would be out of a job! Where do you draw the line between what gets harmed for our food choices? The Bible says we have dominion over animals. Everyone eats animal products. It’s just the way things are. You’re never going to change that. Vitamin B12 is absent from a vegan diet, which means it is not the diet intended for us. Some people fail to thrive, or become ill, when they don’t eat animal products. Vegans kill more animals than meat eaters. That’s what animals are here for! Animals don’t know what’s happening to them when they are raised and slaughtered. Humans are more important than animals. If we didn’t raise and eat farm animals, they would go extinct. If the world went vegan, farmed animals would overrun the earth Animals are ferocious and would think nothing of attacking us. Raw milk is very nutritious! What I eat is a personal choice! But you feed your cats and dogs meat; that’s not vegan! Why should we care about animals when there is so much human suffering in the world? A vegan diet is elitist, a luxury that only some can afford. Certain populations and regions rely on animal products since they can’t grow food crops. Vegans push their beliefs on others and turn others off. Vegans are hypocrites; it’s impossible to be 100% vegan.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:11:12 +0000