Should people who defend the rights of animal eat meat?
Is it hypocritical to say stop killing dogs in china while in USA and Europe and most countries for that matter, we all enjoy a good burger at our favorite fast food joint?
I pretty much do not eat at fast food joints but I eat meat. I have teeth in my head made just for eating meat so I use them. But I donate and advocate for wildlife conservation and humane society stuff. I can't stand PETA. I do not engage in anthropomorphism. I think plants are living things also but not like humans. If it has a brain do not eat it, but if it has chlorophyll eat like a mad man -- just does not cut it for me. Why should a cow get better treatment than a head of lettuce. Touch a sensitive plant and it will recoil.
Yes I advocate and defend the rights of animals but not to a fully silly extent. So I defend and eat the beasts.
A cow should get better treatment because it is a sentient being, capable of feeling pain. If you wouldn't slit the throat of your dog or cat, and toss it on the grill, why do it to a cow? It's cruel, lazy, and unnecessary.
Who says that plants are not sentient? The same scientists brought to us by Mansanto. Did someone declare that you had to have a central nervous system to be sentient? I would guess God is not sentient then.
There is no proof that plants are sentient. And believe it or not, when you eat an apple, the apple tree isn't slaughtered. It doesn't die screaming or in terror. It keeps living, and produces apples next year.
Vegans call this selective compassion. You can't say you love animals if what you mean is you love dogs and cats, but prefer your cows, pigs and chickens slaughtered, grilled, and slathered with BBQ sauce.
It's totally hypocritical to judge which animals people in other countries eat, while you're eating other animals. How 'bout we all stop killing ALL the animals?
A couple of years ago there was outrage in this country (Australia) when a documentary, mostly secretly filmed, showed the cruelty being displayed in an Indonesian abbatoirs. Hundreds, possibly thousand of people took umbrage to, in some cases, blatant sadism. Live cattle, exported from this country, which had to be killed overseas for it to be regarded as Halal. The slaughtering process was absolutely horrific.
So great was the furore that live exports were actually banned.
But it didn't last long. The politics of money came into it and, within a few months we were back sending live cattle to Indonesia once more.
So the point being, people DO defend, or at least try to defend, the right of animals, even though they might be meat-eaters themselves.
I'm a vegetarian personally, so I don't eat meat. That being said, I don't think most animal rights activists are morally against eating meat per se, they are against animal cruelty. Factory farming, where most meat in the meat industry comes from, is incredibly cruel - animals kept in cages so small they can't move, basically tortured until they are finally slaughtered - that is indefensible. However, an animal raised humanely, with a large, outdoor habitat and a healthy diet, and then slaughtered painlessly, is a different situation.
You have a good point about dogs. It's a bit funny to me when people are outraged by SOME animal deaths but not all - you are shocked that some people eat dogs, cats or horses, but shrug and ignore the horrible life a cow or chicken endures in factory farms? That being said, the dog meat festivals in China are known for cruel slaughtering of dogs, and as it's the cruelty I have the biggest issue with, I still protest that.
Generally I do believe people should eat LESS meat, not only to give the horrible meat industry less power, but because it is more environmentally sustainable and healthier as well. But I'm not morally opposed to eating meat, it's cruelty I am opposed to.
Personally, I defend animals' rights in many ways. I'm against cruelty to domestic pets, use of animals for fighting, senseless slaughter of animals (including endangered species), use of animals (hurting and/or killing them) for research when other methods would work, neglect of animals in one's care, destroying wildlife's natural habitats, etc. I will continue to support and speak out for animals' rights. I am consistent by living a vegan lifestyle, which also is better for my health and the environment. You couldn't force me to eat a burger (and I certainly wouldn't use the adjective "good" to describe it--driving past MacDonald's makes me queasy). This is, however, a personal choice that each individual makes. This is mine, and I live with it happily.
by Lyn.Stewart 13 years ago
Should people who abuse or neglect animals be allowed to own them??
by dwheela 12 years ago
Why do vegetarians and vegans condemn people who eat meat?We do not think they are crazy or speak poorly of them who can't stomach the thought of sushi, or even bacon or eggs for breakfast.
by ShawnB2011 13 years ago
I was watching a show about when animals attack the other day n which it depicted wild animals attacking humans and us humans slay these animals for what they do naturally. In addition to that, I think zoos, carnivals and circuses should be banned altogether from being able to hold wild animals for...
by Astralrose 7 years ago
Hello Fellow Hubbers,I'd like some help with passing the Quality Assessment Process. Will you please give feedback on my article Vegans Can Eat Meat: Here's Why. What can I do to improve? Thank you!
by JDeAngelis 10 years ago
How do vegetarians feel towards animals that eat meat?If some vegetarians are against other people eating meat are they also against animals that eat meat and if not, why?
by Sarah 11 years ago
For those outraged at the death of the giraffe...I am not being argumentative; just curious about this aspect of the situation. If we are going to keep lions in a zoo then Animals must be killed to feed them. Cows, horses, pigs, sheep, deer are routinely killed in a manner very similar to the...
Copyright © 2025 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2025 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |