Individuals in many different areas of the world believe that eating
meat
is a sin, or simply wrong.
Animals
and
people
can be considered the same thing, mammals who live, breathe and have feelings. From my point of view, killing
animals
to satisfy human pleasure is indeed wrong. I think that in our day in age we have other options that can replace
meat
.
This
essay will discuss negative reasons for eating
meat
and bring a few points to clarify my point of view.
Firstly
, many individuals tend to believe that eating
meat
is what keeps the body healthy, that
meat
is a source of nutrients like any other ever found or invented by man, and for that reason, the majority of
people
would
also
disagree with the idea that the consumption of
meat
is wrong.
However
, some research shows that the nutrients found in all kinds of
meat
can
also
be found in other sorts of foods, allowing many individuals to learn that
meat
is not the only source.
Although
hunting and killing
animals
to eat their
meat
was how
humans
survived in the cave ages,
this
way of thinking might not be substantial anymore, with the resources and technology humanity has access to now, the world has so much knowledge of better and less cruel ways of eating and receiving all important nutrients.
In addition
to the new technologies and research which have taught
people
that
meat
does not have to be the main meal, there is
also
the fact that killing
animals
to eat their
meat
is unkind. Generally,
people
would not kill another human being for the simple pleasure of eating it, society actually considers that a crime, but when it comes to
animals
they don’t apply the same rules. I think that life is a life, it does not matter the form,
animals
can feel pain just as
humans
can and killing them is a cruel selfish activity.
For example
, cows that are raised to be slaughtered stay in the same place for years, being injected with many kinds of hormones that will make their
meat
better for
humans
. They live with great depression, staying in the exact same spot just living so that we can eat it. At the end of their lives, when they are slaughtered, they are inflicted with so much pain they scream, just like a person would.
In conclusion, eating
meat
should not be right because there are other sources of food just as good or even better than
meat
that doesn’t put
animals
' lives in danger or them in any pain.
Therefore
, not eating
meat
can be beneficial for all
humans
and
animals
.