Why do some people eat other meats but not beef? What belief is this ? or is it just a health thing. The reason I'm asking is because I've heard people say that they are vegetarians because they don't eat red meat. What's up?
i've talked to some people who eat fish, or even chicken, because they don't really see them as animals... sort of a heirachy of animal values i guess.
the people or the meals don't really know their logic though, sorry. i don't think that they are veggies then though... i mean, if someone eats flesh, i don't see how they could call themselves veggie....
I never understood this. Chickens are warm blooded too. Is pork a white meat? If so, they are way smarter than cows. And the health argument... Yes, beef might give you mad cow, but chicken and beef have roughly the same cholesterol, but beef generaly has more fat and fish are chalked full of of heavy metals these days.
One of my colleagues stopped eating beef & pork and she said she had 'become a vegetarian, she only eats chicken', and she says she does it because she doesn't like the cruelty of keeping animals for food. I also know several vegetarians who eat fish. The fish I can understand from a cruelty-against-animals point of view; almost all fish aren't bred in captivity, they're still killed but up until the point they get caught they can swim free and everything, and there's also none of this feeding with all the supplements, hormones etc that many farmers use, so from a health point of view it's also pretty sensible. But chickens & other poultry are often treated even worse than large animals & get at least as many hormones and supplements, so to eat them and not cows is kinda stupid. I've been trying to tell my colleague it makes far more sense to eat organic (including organic meat, eggs, milk -the last two are often forgotten by vegetarians who don't like animal cruelty... they'll still eat eggs and drink milk while the hens & milk cattle are treated like shit in places that don't do organic farming), but she didn't listen, she just likes to do one or two things that make her feel better rather than think about it in too much detail...
I am not sure but I think that this probaly comes from the fact that Hindu's regard the cow as sacred and therefore will not eat beef..whilst I know many hindu's who do not eat any meat at all I think this is such an old and influentual religion that it has sort of seeped into our cultures a bit too.
The no red meat thing is for health reasons, far as I can tell. Ethics wise the practise is, misguided (that's the most poliet term I can find) Chickens are as intelligent, feeling and suffer to the same degree as any other animal. They just happen to be birds but that makes no diffrence. Fish feel as well, and their fate is horrific. They basically suffocate, being unable to breath outside of water. Eating them isn't really any healtheir. The toxins in the flesh of fish are 9 million times more concentrated that in the water they live in (which you certainly wouldn't want to drink) Really don't believe those in fish farms aren't given suppliments. They get fish food right. Now I had companion fish and read the ingredients of their food. It's pretty scary. Surely the mind blowing illogic of such a diet is obvious. Vegetarians do not eat anything that could get away. As for anyone else, yeah you can use fancy terms, but they are not vegetarians.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I'd really like to be because I find meat eating to be morbid, and I just hate the taste, but my parents are against me being one because I think they think they're going to have to buy massive amounts of tofu or something. I'm more violently opposed to putting beef in my body because to me it tastes more disgusting and dirty than chicken and pork, although to me pork is pretty bad too. I also can't stand it when you can smell beef on someone else's burp... ew. But yeah, to me, beef is really gross.
People of the Hindu religion do not eat cows because they are sacred and that if you follow all that shit then you become a cow and that's like there heaven...i believe it's called moksha...but yeah I hear about all these people claiming to be vegetarians but they eat chickens and fish. Well where I come from things that breathe are called animals! ( vegetarians do not eat any animals)
