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Juwan Reams

Mr. Graham

March 9, 2017

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Why Do We Need to Keep the Animals Alive?

When it comes to humans, we need the meat to survive in my opinion. Although some

believe it is not ok to eat them because animals are equal to humans in their opinions. Animals

do not have any reasons to be alive. They supply the protein that we need and the savory meat

that we crave. It is best to eat meat from the animals other than from the plants or vegan

foods. In the following paragraphs, I will write about the good of eating meat and the

counterclaim of how others may feel about the killing and eating of animals.

According to breakingmuscle.com, one of the greatest and most harmful nutrition myths

is that meat does not belong in a healthy diet. The consumption of meat is blamed for high

cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity. Other foods are to blame instead of

meat. In the last ten-thousand years, humans decided to do a shift in their diets. One thing they

decided to change was to lower the meat in their diets. for more than two million years we were

primarily meat eaters. (breaking muscle) Over the years, the brain in humans have gotten

smaller because of the reduction of meat. Kadya Araki says I have to politely disagree with the

anti-meat argument. Our genes were developed before the agricultural revolution, when we
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were not only meat eaters, but enthusiastic ones at that. We were born to be meat eaters and our

bodies are designed for it. Our teeth are designed to be able to bite and tear through the meat. If

we were meant to subsist on vegetables alone, our digestive system would be similar to that of

the cow, with four digestive stomachs and the ability to ferment cellulose in order to break down

plant material.

The Free from Harm Staff Writers Eating Animals is also agrees that there is nothing

wrong with eating animals. Humans have canine teeth which means that we are meant to eat

meat. The term omnivores do not mean you must eat some animals products. (freefromharm)

If we did not raise and eat farm animals, they would go extinct. On one hand, were afraid that

farm animals will overrun the earth. On the other we worry that they will become extinct. If the

world were all to become vegans, farm animals would overrun the earth and wreak havoc.

Globally, nearly all animals eaten by humans are bred into existence. (freefromharm) If we

stop eating animals, we also stop breeding them. That means not as many animals would walk

the earth in the future as they do today.

Another important thing to note is that humans, among other species without rumens,

cannot digest grass. Micheal Pollan in his book The Omnivores Dilemma, visits Polyface

Farm, which raises grass-fed beef along with a whole slew of other livestock raised on their

natural food. (chefsblade) At a farm called Polyface Farm, the cows are rotationally grazed, that

means that the cows are allowed to eat in one area of the pasture before being moved to another

area of the farm to eat the following day. In this manner, the cows partially eat the grass stem,

but not the whole stalk. (chefsblade) Last, Jacky Hayward says My final reason for eating meat

is, it tastes good. I crave it., I am lethargic both physically and mentally without it. She goes
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to say vegetarians and vegans often say that humans have evolved to a point where they do not

need meat to survive.

Now from a vegetarians and vegans point of view, they do not agree at all with the fact of

harming animals. We do not ever think about what we put into our bodies when we pick up that

delicious piece of bacon in the morning. Everyday animals are killed to satisfy our needs and

want of meat. We do not think of how the animals may feel. They go through so much abuse and

torture to satisfy the hunger we have. The animals could get into the wrong hands and be treated

horribly with no care at all.

A guest blogger on primepeta.com says, Perhaps regarding animals as tools and

resources is too deeply and culturally ingrained in them. Treating animals as slaves or

products does not improve the human condition beyond a temporarily filled stomach and does

great harm to people in the long run. (guestblogger)We ingest all different types of meat from

all animals. The thing is we do not know what the animals has that can be dangerous to or bodies

in a major way. There is no telling what the animals has eaten or has been injected with by

farmers and factories. Yet raising animals for food is the surest way for humans, even well-

intentioned ones, to bring on environmental disaster. Even the production and burning of dirty

coal or the heedless use of gas-guzzling cars, tankers, and airplanes, as bad as they all are, do not

pollute as much as raising millions of cows, sheep, chickens, and pigs. (guestblogger) This is

saying that yes raising the animals for food is the way for humans, at the same time other things

that pollute the air are safer.

Many people do not eat meat because of their religion or because they are vegetarians.

Vegetarianism has been a common thread among the major world religions, even if only a

minority have adopted the diet as an expression of their faith. (vegetarianism and religion) In
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the Hinduism encourages a vegetarian diet, though not all Hindus are vegetarian. They avoid

beef because they consider the cow to be sacred. While the violence of slaughter wrongs

animals, it also harms those who consume animals. Causing unnecessary pain and death

produces bad karma. Jainism practices vegetarianism also. They believe it is wrong to kill or

harm any living being.

The religion Buddhism strongly denounces the eating of meat. They believe it

extinguishes the seed of great compassion. (vegetarianism and religion) A long passage

shows the Buddha weighing strongly in favor of vegetarianism, since the eating of the flesh of

fellow sentient beings is said by him to be incompatible with the compassion a Bodhisattva

should strive to cultivate. Taoism is the Chinese religion and it holds nature as sacred and favors

vegetarianism. With Judaism, the Torah describes vegetarianism as an ideal. In the Garden of

Eden, Adam, Eve, and all creatures were instructed to eat plant foods. (vegetarianism and

religion) Judaism forbids inflicting unnecessary pain on animals. Christianity prohibits cruelty to

animals. Jesus central teachings involved love, compassion, and mercy, and it is hard to

imagine Jesus looking upon contemporary factory farms a slaughterhouses and then happily

consuming flesh.

"Eating Animals: Our Most Common Justification" by Free From Harm Staff Writers also

agrees that it is wrong to eat animals. One of their statements goes to say "If I was not to eat

meat, I would not have these canine teeth!". The truth is that nearly all mammals have canine

teeth. Many herbivores and primary plant-eaters have ferocious canine teeth; in fact, the largest

canine teeth of any land animal belong to a true herbivore. Humans are omnivores that are

designed to eat animals. "The term omnivores doesnt mean must eat some animal products." " It

means capable of subsisting on both plant and animal matter." Of the two, we are able to thrive
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without eating animals; however, if we eat no plants, we could quickly become malnourished.

"Many people insist that eating animals is natural and therefore morally neutral because

other animals eat animals." But its important to realize that, with a few exceptions, when

humans kill other animals for food, were not doing what animals do in nature. Animals are

violent but would never think of attacking us the way we attack them. Nature itself is brutal,

cruel, people often tell us, which then becomes a justification for harming animals for any

reason we wish, framing our relentless violence toward them as part of some primal, predatory,

tooth-and-nail fight to the finish. We live in a society governed by laws that are largely aimed at

discouraging those behaviors that persist as our baser instincts: stealing, beating, raping, killing,

etc." (freefromharm)

Overall, I believe that there is nothing wrong with eating meat. We need the meat to

survive and for protein. If the animals are not eaten, then they would become extinct. It is better

to chose meat because it is the safe route to go other than just eating plants and not getting the

appropriate nutrition. Although the vegetarians believe it is not right, as I said before, what do

animals have to live for?

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Works Cited

"Feeding the Hungry Without Hurting Animals." PETA Prime. N.p., 20 Jan. 2010. Web. 09 Mar.

2017.

"Vegetarianism and Religion." Vegetarianism and Religion. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Mar. 2017.

Johnson, Nathaneal. Is there a moral case for meat? Grist. N.P., 22 July 2015. Web.09

Mar.2017.

Why All Humans Need to Eat Meat for Health. Breaking Muscle. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Mar.2017.

Freefromharm. Eating Animals: Addressing Our Most Common Justification. Free From

Harm. N.p., 27 Mar. 2014. Web. 09 Mar. 2017.

Why I Eat Meat (And Why You Should, Too). ChefsBlade. N.p., .d. Web. 09 Mar. 2017.
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