Comments on: Wildlife: Should We Eat Them?

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:13:53 +0000

If animal welfare and humane treatment doesn’t get you to stop eating animal products, try reading “The China Study” – that was what sent me over the edge and finalized my decision to not only become a vegetarian, but a full blown vegan overnight!

By: chris g

chris g — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:46:41 +0000

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with eating animals as food, and here’s why. First off, the Bible says animals were put here to be eaten- period. and if you don’t believe in God/Jesus, read “the case for christ” (by lee strobel) and then talk. secondly, aside from a few animals the Bible already mentioned were bad for you thousands of years ago, and turned out to be right (pigs, shellfish, bottomfeeders), eating meat is GOOD FOR YOU. Of course, I dont mean only eating meat, like the liberal PETA propaganda machine would have you believe. I mean eating 2-4 servings a day, along with a balanced diet of fruits and veggies and bread and dairy, along with exercise, is the best way to go. without meat, you simply CANNOT be healthy, without artificial protein supplements- and they are proven to often have health complications later in life, and the Bible predicted this too- it says not to put artificial substances into your body.

I WILL, however, agree with you crazed activists on a few points- 1, as a Christian, I know that animals MUST be treated and killed as painlessly and humanely and with as much care as possible to alleviate feeling the pain. until this is accomplished, I wholeheartedly- as a conservative- actually approve of what you guys do. But I must say, that ad you did where you said the pig “died for your sins”- lets not EVEN go there! that was sacreligious to the max, and he died cuz we wanted to eat him, not for our sins. That was Jesus. Find a way to make us care about animals- and we do- WITHOUT blaspheming the ONE PERSON IN HISTORY who lived a sinless life, rose from the dead, and performed miracles, died for us unselfishly, and in short was God on earth… k?

By: sunsettommy

sunsettommy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:16:47 +0000

“Mark Seall said on March 19th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Somebody has just suggested to me that it is impossible to become a vegetarian and stay vegetarian due to the fact that bacon sandwiches exist. He may be on to something here..

Vegetarians, please come to my aid with your advice”

If that is all he will eat.He is already 95% vegetarian.

Surely that is pretty good.

He he…..

By: Ten Tips for Greening Your Plate with More Meat-free Meals : Eat. Drink. Better.

Ten Tips for Greening Your Plate with More Meat-free Meals : Eat. Drink. Better. — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:52:49 +0000

[...] efforts to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle, and “eat better.” Mark’s original EcoWorldy post on vegetarianism, which inspired my post asked, “Do you have any suggestions on managing the conversion to [...]

By: Megan

Megan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:03:56 +0000

Thanks for this post, Mark… and thank you for choosing not to eat veal. Of all types of meat, veal is one of the most cruel. The way veal calves are raised is simply horrible.

To answer the question you posted in the title – No, I don’t think we should eat animals. So I choose not to. Why? So many reasons I couldn’t possibly list them all. I respect each person’s choice of diet, but I really don’t think it’s necessary to eat meat when there are so many healthful, delicious plant-based options. Just because we can kill animals doesn’t mean we should – might does not make right. Plus, raising animals for food puts off more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined, so any environmentalist should seriously question whether that bacon sandwich is really worth contributing to global warming over.

BTW – you can make “bacun” by thinly slicing tempeh and grilling it up, or they even make fake bacon strips. And just about any kind of fake meat you could want. Field Roast Grain Meat Company makes some killer vegan “sausages” – we brought some to a BBQ last night. Mmm! I usually am not too into fake meats, since it didn’t take me long to lose my desire or taste for meat, but some, like Tofurky roasts at Thanksgiving, are really good, and downright deceiving.

Glad to see vegetarianism getting more coverage on green-themed blogs. I really think vegetarianism and environmentalism are one issue, and certainly a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle benefits the environment as well as animals.

By: Mark Seall

Mark Seall — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:51:26 +0000

Thanks for your inputs everybody – all very useful thoughts.

I’ve continued this topic, together with a poll, here in our forums: http://discuss.greenoptions.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=453

By: Sharon Troy

Sharon Troy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:54:37 +0000

Mark, thanks for the thoughtful post. While it’s hard to answer all your questions, I’ve started a series on vegetarianism that tries to.

If you’re readers are interested, they can read about it here: http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/03/20/consider-cutting-the-meat-out/

By: millie

millie — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:17:36 +0000

quite simply, no, i do not believe we should be eating animals. we live in a time and place of abundance, which gives us the option to make the compassionate choice to leave animals (and their secretions) off our plates entirely — while still enjoying a wonderful variety of delicious and nurishing foods. really, there is no reason *for* eating animals, besides that of taste. is that a good enough reason to enslave and slaughter innocent, living, feeling beings? just because you “like” to? if someone simply “liked” to kill dogs, would that be ok? and how is that any different than someone “liking” a bacon sandwich? it’s just a matter of perception. we need to open our eyes.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:39:41 +0000

I haven’t eaten meat or fish for 30 years. I don’t bother with any special foods. I don’t eat that meat lookalike stuff if I can help it. I don’t plan my diet, I just eat whatever comes along.

It doesn’t seem to have done me any harm, in fact, I think I am heathier than most who are in the last throes of their 50′s.

If you order the veggie option in a restaurant, the results do vary wildly. Sometimes it is fantastic, other times awful. You have to be prepared to take a chance.

Try it. You might like it!

By: Lynn from Organicmania.com

Lynn from Organicmania.com — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:45:18 +0000

I really like the open, honest, questioning nature of this post.

I married a vegetarian. I thought it strange at the time, but now he says I’ve “evolved.” This is because he does all the cooking! I still do order non-veg items sometimes in restaurants, but it is true that if you stop eating meat you lose the taste for it and sometimes can’t even digest it.

I will say that visiting Ireland and seeing all the lovely lambs at pasture made it very hard to stomach seeing lamb on seemingly every restaurant menu in Ireland!