January 22, 2010, Newsletter Issue #292: Top 6 Excuses for Eating Meat

Tip of the Week

Today on the Animal Person Blog, Mary Martin passed on results from an informal survey she did of why people just can't go vegetarian. I recognized all of these "excuses," as Martin calls them. How about you?


1. Eating meat is the way it should be. It's what we're supposed to do. My response: I guess we should all be naked too...and dying off at 30 years of age.


2. Vegetarians "bug" God. My response: Thou shalt not kill??? Hmm...Re-read Gensis 1:29.


3. Our bodies are designed to eat meat. My response: Great, then eat it in the way your body was designed to intake it. (You hunt it, organic/free range animals native and local to your area only, consume only small quantities a few times a week, use EVERY part of the animal for something leaving nothing wasted...but most importantly have the blood on YOUR hands.)


4. It's not healthy. My response: Time for a basic nutrition lesson. I understand though because most people's understanding of nutrition comes from "milk does a body good" and "beef - it's what's for dinner" TV commercials. Do some research.


5. We as humans are at the top of the food chain--it's our duty to eat meat. My response: Then we better start acting like "leaders" and start eating a more sustainable diet...and, if we're not too busy being superior, maybe figure out a way to stop the innumerable human deaths caused by starvation everyday.


6. Last but not least...the guilty meat-eaters! They say a prayer for each piece of meat they eat. My response: Take the plunge, folks. Start making prayers of thanks, i.e. "God, thank you for allowing me the joyous opportunity to save animals by not eating them." Amen!

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