Why do people who are animal lovers still eat meat?

I'm not an animal lover but am a vegan and can't understand people who claim to love animals but still eat them, perhaps someone can clarify this for me.

When I say I love animals, in my mind I am picturing cats and dogs and seals and tigers. Animalsthat are not bred for this purpose.

I do not pictures sheep or cows or hens. Its a great question and has really made think. It feels like it is compartmentalised into 2 very different segments in my mind that I keep totally separate.

When I see meat on my plate I do not picture sheep or cows or anything. Though I couldn't eat rabbit as I had one as a pet once.

Then again, I love plants and flowers too but I eat the edible ones.

I am sure if I went to an abbortoire? (sorry about spelling) then I would never be able to eat meat again.

But I can not associate the two, my mind doesn't put the two together. If I thought I could cope with it, I would go to an abbortoirre as I wish I could give it up, but I'm too scared.

A rather confusing but honest answer.

its all part of the food chain its gotta be done sorry

People eat meat for centuries ,it also has become part of food. And no religion has denied about it and animal lovers love them, just for making dish out of it. And no one believes and preached animals too have soul and re-birth. Even plants have life. Though your question is genuine and discussed worthy, people who have blood and flesh prefers to consume the same from animals. Because people think they are supreme and special from animals, and also believe God has created them for their consumption and they have every right on them.

Because we are People Eating Tasty Animals - haven't you ever heard of PETA? The latest research out in the last few days was about the feelings and pain centres of plants. I assume you eat some forms of plants - they have the same receptors you should be concerned about. So, now what will you eat? Paper? Oh, no, that comes from trees - another living thing. How about dirt? No, you can't eat dirt, there are precious microbes in it.
So, do you get the point? You can chose what you want to eat, and so will everyone else. We are animal lovers and we rescue cats. We don't eat cats. I think cows are cute, but they also taste really, really good and provide us with wonderful nutrition.

i dont eat cats or dogs

the same reason a vegan can grow a living veg and then proceed to cut it from its life supporting stem and eat it plants are living things as well as animals but cos they don't run around then its OK

while i'm an animal lover and i used to be a vegeterian.. but i was getting sick and anemic..
and i started dating boys who ate meat...

so its easier just to eat it.. :(

they are all a load of liers and they get loads of money collected for dogs and cats and they end up having big parties over the names of cats and dogs them charaties are a load of rubbish they have more money collected as salory as the director of managment person of the charity,i've seen even worse people they pretend to be so they are 2 faced creaps honestly.come to india and see the scams they have going there.i can take you to loads.

mcdonald's ads promote eating meat, verses in the new testament promote eating meat. i f'ing loathe meat, myself.

Because people can appreciate the difference between a pet and livestock. People who love animals generally like horses, dogs, cats, fish, and reptiles. Not cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. However, I have raised rabbits and played with them and then killed and ate them. I think as long as you know they are going to be food, you don't develop attachments to them. Loving animals generally means you don't eat your pets.

Well the human body has evolved over the best part of 1 and 1/2 million years into the modern homo homo spaiens, which is an omnivorious species.
As a result, we require a balanced diet of meat and vegitable products to live a healthy well balanced liefstyle. Don't kid yourselves, supplements do NOT provide the same positive nutritional benefits as eating meat provides. If you are not eating meat, you are endangering your well being.

Most that claim they love animals are talking about dogs and cats or other household pets ONLY.

I eat organic meat from a source that looks after their animals, treats them kindly, feeds them the best food and slaughters them humanely, if an animal has had a happy life and has been reared kindly, then what's wrong with eating that then?

Very good question, I would like to know too.

I guess its to do with some sort of hierachy where they consider themselves better and able to control animals.

I see it as hypocrytical and burying thier heads in the sand. Not just because they eat the animal, but because it directly supports modern animal rearing abuse.

I also don't understand why some people see catsa nd dogs as animals but not cows, pigs, sheep and chickens.

reading the answers above, i guess the "burying your head in the sand" suggestion applies. What can be humane about slaughter. Its an oxymoron.

Some people are so weak " i wish I could give up but I can't" - - - Rubbish, be honest with yourself, you are happy to eat a dead animal just so long as you don't have to see it die. There is no logic to thinking a cat is different to a cow. Get yourself into a field and watch them, you'll soon see they have feelings and think. When I go into our fields the sheep get the football and bring it over to play, I guess you'd turn a blind eye in case that looked too cute would you ?

And the arguement thats its "natural" just doesn't count anymore as they are pumped full of steroids to get the meat quantity up, just go and see a farm or dairy carousel.

The cow doesn't care its been fed organic food, it cares about the cross bolt in front of its eyes though

I love animals, but I do not think that eating meat in order to live is wrong. Man is and always has been a meat eater. The proteins are required for a healthy balanced diet.

A question for you.... Do you wear leather shoes or jackets or gloves???

What is wrong is hunting and torturing animals for sport.

Cause a man (or woman) can not live on bread alone. LOL

because animals are bred for thier meat and if noone eat it then they would be killed for nothing and that would be cruel.

meday, do us all a favor and stop forcing your weird lifestlye on the rest of us. Animals are food and nothing more, so get over it. You talk like animals can think, they are dumb, they don't have any purpose other than becoming food.

It is kind of hypocritical to be an animal lover but sill eat them, that would be like being a personal trainer and being out of shape,or a nutritionist with bad health,but when you're raised eating something you tend to continue it,like eating meat,they probably don't think of meat as an animal when they go grocery shopping,just as a source of food.

鈥淎s a result, we require a balanced diet of meat and vegitable products to live a healthy well balanced liefstyle. Don't kid yourselves, supplements do NOT provide the same positive nutritional benefits as eating meat provides. If you are not eating meat, you are endangering your well being鈥?

鈥淢an is and always has been a meat eater. The proteins are required for a healthy balanced diet鈥?br> you tell me what I need to eat thatc comes from meat but not from vegetables iron is in meat an broccoli
protein is in beans, nuts and meat I don鈥檛 eat supplement I eat a halethy balanced vegetarian diet

鈥渕eday, do us all a favor and stop forcing your weird lifestlye on the rest of us. Animals are food and nothing more, so get over it. You talk like animals can think, they are dumb, they don't have any purpose other than becoming food鈥?
we鈥檙e not forcing our lifestyle on you it was simply a question similar to the ones you鈥檝e been asking animals are more than food they are living thing that can feel pain

鈥淐ause a man (or woman) can not live on bread alone鈥?br>
No they can live on vegetables too

鈥渢he same reason a vegan can grow a living veg and then proceed to cut it from its life supporting stem and eat it plants are living things as well as animals but cos they don't run around then its OK鈥?
do you eat people? I am animal and I don鈥檛 eat other animals you think of yourself as a person rite an you don鈥檛 eat people that鈥檚 my reasoning (Im not actually vegan veggie but what eva)

鈥淎lso animals in the wild invariably receive painful, and usually violent deaths, always followed by consumption by other animals. It's not as if vegetarianism saves the buggers.鈥?br> It lets animals have a life outside doing normal animal things not locked in a cage
Other Animals eat to survive people don鈥檛 need to


鈥淚 eat organic meat from a source that looks after their animals, treats them kindly, feeds them the best food and slaughters them humanely, if an animal has had a happy life and has been reared kindly, then what's wrong with eating that then?鈥?br>
nothing except animals aren鈥檛 usually kept like that amd not everybody in the world can be fed if theya re all meat eaters but they can if the world wa svegetarian and some extra do you want I stop people starving?


just so people know im not telling you to be vegetarian/vegan you said yoiur opinion that even if i agree with you can keep
you said your opinion so isaid mine back
any problems

I cannot speak for all animal lovers, and truly there are Vegan animal lovers, but a majority of people might 'love' pets yet do not view cows & pigs & chickens as pets hence they see no reason not to eat them. Here is one that might freak you - - - in certain countries in South America they have these gerbil like animals that they raise like pets yet they eat them. For milenium humankind has stood atop the food chain and thus everything is fair game. To put it simply it is irrational but humans are an irrational species.



Peace....

because they love the animals because of there meat!
Simple!

that's a good question, I think they are "kidding themselves"


WHAT IS LOVE?

I don't really understand why either. I became a vegan because i love animals and to me animals are equal to us and we have no right to eat them.

Yeah i like animals and have pets but some also happen to taste wonderful.

I support nature.

Man's natural diet = omnivorous.

Now, I do like nature. I like to see deer and hawks in the countryside near where I live, but I still eat meat, and even venison. Why? Basically my belief that meat is both natural and important in a human diet by FAR supersedes any belief that animals shouldn't be harmed for any reason (which, in fairness, is not a belief I hold anyway; I believe they shouldn't be killed for NO reason; meat, clothing, control and sport are all perfectly good reasons in my opinion). In the case of venison the deer need to be culled in the absence of natural predators anyway. Also animals in the wild invariably receive painful, and usually violent deaths, always followed by consumption by other animals. It's not as if vegetarianism saves the buggers.

Also, while this isn't an explanation, I hope you know that more animals are killed by combine harvesters and pesticides than slaughterhouses (albeit that they are invariably smaller).