| This is an extremely controversial subject. Interestingly | | | | * There is no scientific basis to support the premise |
| enough both meat-eaters and vegetarians assert that | | | | that animals fear death and would prefer not being |
| their arguments for and against eating meat come | | | | consumed. |
| from a place of love. The meat-eaters assert that | | | | Vegetarians say: |
| their consumption of meat does not in any way | | | | * Plants are not sentient beings. They don't have a |
| negate their love for animals. Meanwhile, the | | | | brain or central nervous system so they don't |
| vegetarians maintain a refusal to kill and consume the | | | | experience pain or have emotions. |
| very thing that they so love. Both sides believe as | | | | * Humans are and always have been omnivores so |
| strongly in the validity of their position as in the | | | | eating meat is a choice not a requirement to survive. |
| correctness of it and herein lies the source of the | | | | * Meat is a second-level nutrient so why not go |
| discord. To illustrate this, here are some of the major | | | | straight to the source. |
| points made by both sides. | | | | * Research has shown that meat contributes to heart |
| Meat-Eaters say: | | | | disease, hypertension, some cancer and Type 2 |
| * If it's okay to eat plants then it's okay to eat meat | | | | Diabetes. |
| because plants are living things too. | | | | * The human body is meat so if it's not okay to eat |
| * Our ancestors ate meat. | | | | humans, it's not okay to eat any other meat. |
| * Mankind is a part of the food chain that all animals | | | | * Factory farms pump livestock with tons of |
| are a part of so eating meat is part of survival. | | | | hormones and antibiotics. |
| * If meat were banned governments would collapse | | | | * A plant-based diet is better for the environment and |
| and millions of jobs would be lost. | | | | the food that it takes to feed livestock deprives billions |
| * If it's ok to kill people in wars it's okay to kill a cow. | | | | of starving people of food. |
| * Taking away meat takes away individual freedom. | | | | |