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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

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Tobin S.

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Mon Jun 24, 2019, 12:48 PM Jun 2019

If everyone had to slaughter critters for their meat, there would be a lot more vegetarians. [View all]

I was talking to my mom about me switching to a vegetarian diet. She said that if she had to kill and slaughter animals for her own meat she probably couldn't do it. I think I lot of people would have a problem with that.

I can do it, but I hate it. I used to fish a lot, and I would sometimes bring the fish home and clean them. I always hated doing it, but I did it anyway. If it was a matter of survival I could do stuff like that, but few people need to do that to survive now days.

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really you could say the same of growing plants Kali Jun 2019 #1
If people had to make that choice, I'd think most of them would go with a garden. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #6
I doubt it. I think most people would resort to stealing whatever they could Kali Jun 2019 #11
You're assuming uncivilized conditions. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #13
actually, no I am not Kali Jun 2019 #14
My grandfather raised beef cattle. I've seen it all and I hate it. I'd raise dairy cows, but never hlthe2b Jun 2019 #2
Native Americans HONORED their kills..... ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2019 #3
That's probably true radical noodle Jun 2019 #4
I'm not vegetarian or vegan moose65 Jun 2019 #5
True. So what? matt819 Jun 2019 #7
The point is that I think most people would be naturally inclined to eating a vegetarian diet. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #9
that is debateble but I see this is in a "protected" forum Kali Jun 2019 #10
Any sociologists or anthropologists here? matt819 Jun 2019 #12
I worked in a slaughterhouse for years captain queeg Jun 2019 #8
Yet in a way, raising and slaughtering your own is so much more humane. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #15
+1 2naSalit Jun 2019 #16
Once I acknowledged the animal cruelty involved, I could no longer eat meat... MLAA Jun 2019 #17
Isn't human physiology geared towards consuming plants? I thought our teeth were Karadeniz Jun 2019 #18
I was raised in a hunting family Codeine Jun 2019 #19
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