/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7545179]

Why should I stop eating meat?

[Anonymous No.7545182]

you don't need to unless you want to

[Anonymous No.7545189]

You shouldn't deprive animals of life since it's the only possession they have.

[Anonymous No.7545190]

>>7545179
to feel lighter and happier

[Anonymous No.7545206]

>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature.

[Anonymous No.7545207]

>>7545179
Tom, stop shitposting on /lit/ to get ideas for your PhD thesis

[Anonymous No.7545210]

>>7545179
ass cancer.

[Anonymous No.7545211]

Animals are pure and innocent.

[Anonymous No.7545224]

>>7545211
that's wrong tho

[Anonymous No.7545230]

>>7545224
No, it is not. And don't type like a negro when you're addressing me.

[Anonymous No.7545241]

>>7545210
isn't that a myth?

[Anonymous No.7545259]

MEAT IS CANCER

according to the illuminati

[Anonymous No.7545274]

>>7545179

Alright, not gonna meme today:

A lot of meat is unsustainable and is not essential to healthy living

Where are the modz btw

[Anonymous No.7545276]

>>7545241
No it's true. Processed meat = higher chance of cancer. Like cigarettes for yr colon. Eating fresh squirrel would be better for ye.

[Anonymous No.7545284]

>>7545230
Go watch a video of a baboon eating a baby gazelle alive and then come back and tell me animals are pure and innocent.

[Anonymous No.7545300]

>>7545284
The baboon is literally unaware of it's unethical (if you must) decision, plus most of the time animals eat other animals in order to LIVE humans do not to pay someone to kill an animal in order to live (ironically leading to a delayed suicide on the human due to the higher chance of disease from the processed animal), humans simply do it because they have been raised and conditioned to have a pleasure in the taste and texture of meat. It's quite a simple concept but nothing can really stop you from saying "mmm bacon" but yourself.

[Anonymous No.7545301]

>>7545274
>A lot of meat is unsustainable and is not essential to healthy living
So because some of it is bad you should stop eating all meat?

Fuck off with your bullshit and just admit you're an animal rights moral retard and this isn't about your own health.

[Anonymous No.7545302]

>>7545284
That's just their nature. My feline friend, Vivian, would play with and kill a bird, but she's still pure and innocent. Humans can easily choose to stop eating animals.

[Anonymous No.7545305]

>>7545301
haha I'm glad there is a higher chance of you dying sooner than I

[Anonymous No.7545310]

>>7545305
There isn't, because I don't eat processed meats, and fruits and vegetables are a major part of my diet.

I'd bet a lot of money I'm in better health than you are.

[Anonymous No.7545326]

>>7545310
What meat do you eat?
Why?

[Anonymous No.7545329]

>>7545326
Red meat, steak. Meat has a lot of things the human body needs like B12, collagen, etc. that you aren't going to get from veggies.

[Anonymous No.7545335]

>>7545329
Yes but you can still get these things without having something with pain receptors suffer. I am not even trying to be a hippie or convert you but it is the most logical and ethical decision that can be made in terms of the human diet in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.7545340]

>>7545329
I get B12 in my daily multivitamin.

t. pescatarian

[Anonymous No.7545341]

>>7545340
Why don't you want to eat meat?

[Anonymous No.7545361]

>>7545335
I can understand if you're against the way many are treated in factory farms, but animals that are raised humanely and in healthy environments with lots of land and killed quickly and humanely seem fine to me, even from a logical and ethical perspective.

[Anonymous No.7545373]

>>7545310

>I'd bet a lot of money I'm in better health than you are.

top kek

>Vegetarian diets confer protection against cardiovascular diseases, cardiometabolic risk factors, some cancers and total mortality. Compared to lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets, vegan diets seem to offer additional protection for obesity, hypertension, type-2 diabetes, and cardiovascular mortality.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24871675

>ell-balanced vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women, the elderly and competitive athletes. In most cases, vegetarian diets are beneficial in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, renal disease and dementia, as well as diverticular disease, gallstones and rheumatoid arthritis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15702597

as long as you eat a wide range of nuts, legumes, seeds and frutis/veggies and take the occasional B12 pill or B12-enhanced nutritional yeast as part of a vegna/veggy diet you are alot more likely to be healthier then a meat-eater

Red meat causes inflammation in the body (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25548184), and inflammation itself is one of the core causes of almost all non-transmissible health issues.

[Anonymous No.7545380]

>>7545302
Cats are killers.
And they don't kill for living.

sure fact -> theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

[Anonymous No.7545385]

>>7545380
Little Vivian is an indoors cat.

[Anonymous No.7545386]

>>7545380
and apparently they taste like rabbit

[Anonymous No.7545389]

>>7545380
>The Oatmeal

[Anonymous No.7545390]

>>7545179
I could go on about how meat takes up way more water, manure pollutes water, contributes to global warming and how studies have shown a very slight health benefit to being vegetarian with the variables controlled

BUT IS THIS /lit/

MOOOOOOODS

[Anonymous No.7545391]

>>7545361
But that is incredibly rare due to the high-cost and low-profit, "stressed meat taste better" etc etc. I feel like 1/100 farms humanely raise animals.

[Anonymous No.7545404]

>>7545391
You could make a difference by only buying non-factory farmed meat from a source you trust, even if it means not buying it as often as you currently buy meat. Ordering meat at restaurants is something that you probably wouldn't want to do, unless it's a fancier place that names the farm it came from.

[Anonymous No.7545414]

>>7545404
Fuck the animals, factory farms are way more efficient leading to better lives for humans

[Anonymous No.7545434]

>>7545380
>humans should be held to the same ethical standard as an animal with only a fraction of the intelligence.
humans cause much more suffering and we are much more able to prevent it.

[Anonymous No.7545438]

>>7545211
So it's okay if I eat people instead right?

[Anonymous No.7545468]

>>7545179
>If western society is grounded in utilitarian thinking: something is morally good when it creates the most good at the cost of the least bad
>Causing pain is bad. You wouldn't hurt somebody unless you have a good reason
>Animals can feel pain. You would probably choose to hurt an animal over a person, but you'd still prefer to avoid it
>Animals feel pain when we farm/kill them for food
>We don't need to eat animals to survive
>Therefore killing animals for food causes a lot of real bad for some dubious good (tasty burgers)

[Anonymous No.7545470]

>>7545414
Fuck you.

>>7545438
No.

[Anonymous No.7545472]

>>7545468
So instead of becoming vegetarians, we should treat the animals we raise to eat well, and kill them quickly and painlessly, right?

[Anonymous No.7545476]

>>7545391

Ok, I shouldn't support humane animal farms then-- I should let them go out of business and let the meat eaters only have the option of industrial farms. You know, because there are so many more of them anyway.

Thanks anon