Do you eat meat? Poll # 5

[Sentinel]

This is the 5th poll on this, you can find the past ones here (#1), here, (#2), here (#3), and here (#4). Vote again, and participate in one of the oldest debates on Revleft!

The results from the last poll:

Yes, I have no problems with eating meat 560 66.67%
Yes, but I won't buy it (freeganism) 26 3.10%
Yes, but only certain types (specify) 80 9.52%
No, but I use milk products and eggs (lacto-ovo-veg.) 62 7.38%
No, I'm a vegetarian 64 7.62%
No, I follow the vegan philosophy and lifestyle 48 5.71%

Voters: 840

Feel free to continue any discussions from the last thread in this one.

[Sentinel]

Personally, I follow the LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) diet -- see my thread about it. This means that the vast majority of the things I eat come from the animal kingdom, even though I do eat certain vegetables that grow above the ground (and don't contain as much starch).

A lot of my views have changed since I started posting here, but I'm still as unapologetic a meat eater as ever. Therefore I voted for option 1.

[Ostrinski]

Amen. It just doesn't seem to taste as good if it wasn't once walking and breathing. Voted 1.

[Drosophila]

I don't eat red meat because I don't like it.

[Ostrinski]

Red meat is the reason for my existence.

[NewLeft]

I only eat leaves.

[Q]

I've seen many incarnations of this poll over the years and I can confirm that I still eat meat.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

I eat meat here and there and by 'meat' I assume we're talking about beef, chicken, sheep and so on; it's kind of like a luxury to me as mainly my diet consists of noodles, rice, fish, eggs and the like and some dollar menu items at a Macdo though I don't really consider that 'meat.' I'll eat it when I have the money or after I've gone hunting of which I feel like a king for a couple of weeks. I have no moral objections to eating meat but I feel that factory butchery is a bit inhumane and needs to be reformed.

[Left Leanings]

Yes I eat meat (and fish too), of all kinds.

I have experimented with vegetarianism, cos I actually quite enjoy 'veggie' food, and still eat that way sometimes.

I suppose I'm an omnivore

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I consume meat and dairy, yes. However, I do so guilty knowing the fact that I contributed towards the systematic slaughter of animals.

[Zav]

I am vegan because of ethical, economic, environmental, health and palatal concerns.

[Niall]

I voted option one because I just like to eat meat

[Blanquist]

I used to eat at least 3 pounds of animal a day. No carbs, I bought vegetables but never ate them.

This went on for many years but then I realized that it was going to catch up with me, and I started eating a really high-fiber diet.

I moved to China and beef was very pricey and very low quality. Even pork now is 82% more expensive then in America and I rarely ate pork preferring quality steaks.

Now I eat a lot of vegetables and have really cut back my meat consumption, eating hardly any beef or pork. I mostly eat seafood, and when I do eat animals it's usually something like ox organs or stomach and things like turtles.

I don't eat any dairy for hygiene reasons. Also avoid eggs.

[Blanquist]

The problem for me was the American supermarket. There really aren't many choices outside beef and pork.

Everything downs the aisle's is processed junk, the same for all those frozen meals.

The choice for me was, beef or different packaging of soy and corn garbage.

Now I have discovered many other foods that I never knew existed. Really, the American supermarket is terrible.

[ParaRevolutionary]

I eat meat and agree with eating meat, we have canines for a reason, were omnivores, meaning we consume both vegetation as well as meat. With that said i think that if we do consume meat that the animals need to be raised and slaughtered in a humane manner, just because an animal is being raised for consumption doesnt not mean it does not deserve a good life.

[garymeyer]

Yes i like the meat i am every time ready to eat it but the bit it must tasty

[garymeyer]

There is no problem with me i am laways eat meat. Is is very energatic for health
Yes i like the meat i am every time ready to eat it but the bit it must tasty

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

I'm a carnivore because meat tastes good, and Gandhi tried a vegan diet and almost died.

MAHATMA GANDHI AND 22 COMPANIONS FAIL AS VEGANS : But all attempts were failures. In 1929, Gandhi and 22 companions went on a diet consisting of a limited selection of uncooked plant foods. Whereas the diet worked out well for a time and led to marked improvement in consumptive cases, it failed to prove adequate on a long-range sustenance basis. One by one Gandhi's companions were forced to depart from the diet, and Gandhi himself had to add goat milk to his fare in order to regain health.

"For my companions I have been a blind guide leading the blind," declared Gandhi after the experiment was over. Gandhi still felt, however, that "the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits" of the earth could be explored and found to provide mankind with adequate nourishment. He never stopped trying to experiment along these lines, but he always had to turn back to goat milk to regain his strength.

In the end he had to acknowledge the necessity for animal food. In 1946 he declared: "The crores of India today get neither milk nor ghee nor butter, nor even buttermilk. No wonder that mortality figures are on the increase and there is a lack of energy in the people. It would appear as if man is really unable to sustain life without either meat or milk and milk products. Anyone who deceives people in this regard or countenances the fraud is an enemy of India."

These are strong words from a man who devoted most of his life to the search for a satisfactory vegetarian diet. But Gandhi's experience is not unique in the field of nutrition. Many others have also gone through the experience of believing that man could thrive exclusively upon a limited selection of uncooked plant foods, only to find in the end that animal products were necessary for sustenance. ...."

[garymeyer]

Meat is great source of energy and dont ignore the importance of it.

[garymeyer]

Is there any recipe of meat cocking dishe