- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Twisted Chains
stonewall 007,
Actually, it is healthier not to eat meat and you can get all that is required through plants. With all of the plants availiable out there, how could you not get the nutrients you need. You can combine plant foods and get the same nutrients you receive from meat. Minus the unhealthy animal fat. And while you do need fat, you don't have to have to get it from animals. There are plenty of plant fats you can consume. One of the best ways I like to get fat is by eating fried vegetables such as potatoes, squash and many others.
As for the animal testing, I'm not so sure where I stand on that issue. While I don't like the idea they are being tested (by the way, no one asked the animals if they wanted to be tested on. Now that's being pushy), I do understand that it benefits people's lives by finding medicines and such, and what other way are you going to test that these medicines do indeed work... or not work? I'm not sure, and as you can see I do look at both sides because I am unsure about this issue. But I know that there are some people who will volunteer to have something new used on them that hasn't been tested befor because they need something right a way. And sometimes these medicines will work. And if they work on that person, should we still continue to use that medicine on animals? It sounds good to me just to stop testing a medicine on animals that they find out already works (or doesn't work). I would at least like it if animal testing was limited as much as possible.
But on the concern of eating, I think that if you don't have to eat an animal product, then why do so? Why do it when you could otherwise spare an animals life that doesn't have to end. Or suffer for that matter. And the government doesn't really care what factory farms do. Only when a large group of people like the PETA start to complain and not let up until something is done. Only then is something done. The meat industry didn't start out caring and isn't going to start now until something steps in it's way and makes it change. And the same goes for the government.
cheers,
Twisted Chains
Hey, Twisty Rusty Chains,
Meat tastes good, so SHUT YER MOUTH, YA TREE-HUGGING, AGING HIPPIE LIBERAL DOUCHE!!!!!!!
Why would anyone name a group or organization after a type of bread (That's made of animal products which are very tasty)
I think I'm going to go and eat a tasty steak sandwich right about now. Oh, along with some genuine venison hamburgers. You want some? Guys, come up here with me in Northern Wisconsin and we'll have a BBQ! Ye Haw!!!