A question for you.
Does it make me heartless to eat meat?
Does it make me heartless to watch some of the videos out there that showcase the brutality shown towards animals raised for consumption and not feel bad for them?
I just watched an eleven minute clip on animal cruelty. It showed me some of the terrible things done to animals during the slaughter process. It showed me many a thing that I believe were supposed to make me feel ill. To give up entirely on eating meat. To give up on endorsing this sort of destruction. Really though, it didn't bother me much at all. Ok, so I'm not a machine. I think it is somewhat wrong to abuse the animals. In the end it really doesn't bother me though. Or, it bothers me as much as stepping on a bug. Which isn't much I might add. Now I am not going to say that I am against having better conditions for animals. That's fine by me really but then, that's really because I feel sickened by the condition of some of the meat that I might be eating. Not the condition of the animal. Just the meat. Some of it looks really nasty. Cows with lesions and tumors are still considered kosher apparently. So I might be eating that stuff. Which is gross. Better conditions would cut down on the gnarly bits that I would eat.
Which brings me back to the heartless bit. Am I heartless because I don't really care? Should I even care? Do the animals matter that much?
Again. It wouldn't bother me to see them in better conditions. However I am not bothered by their current conditions either.
So, heartless? Or practical?
I don't know.
Hopefully this post doesn't freak too many people out. =P
3 comments:
sadly, i am pretty much in the same boat as you. I dont know.. i am just not an animal lover... I do care for some.. but sure not all..ya they are living things and they should be treated better then they are.. but really.. i dont seem to care.. are we heartless? in that sense... maybe..
Well... why did God place animals on the earth in the first place... before we sinned... for a purpose... umm... just soo that Adam could name them... a little guess the animal trivia... I dont think soo...
A little cute and warm fun... probly not.
I believe that the animals we consume, are meant for that purpose... but that doesnt mean we treat them terribly just cause we eat them haha.
They are Gods creation for us. Like a present.
I enjoy eating meat alot... gotta be honest... I LOVE meat...
I also love animals in full healthy form... they make us happy!
Its a hard balance...
What can I say God is confusing.
well.....here's a comment that is from an animal lover and one who hates meat of basically any kind.
I think there are two ways of looking at it.
That video that you watched, is probably just one way of slaughtering that animal.
I am against killing animals. But I also know that unfortunalty like Josh said, God put them on earth for a reason, and that wasnt just for show and tell. So I also don't have anything against killing an animal to eat, UNLESS you don't need it.
As for you being heartless or practical...my personal answer is that you are both and neither is bad, you're human.
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