To believe that eating meat should be illegal?

[BySpoonyBlueScroller]

The environmental damage and animal cruelty outweighs the cultural or personal benefits. AIBU to think it’s time to outlaw meat production?

More accurately they wouldn’t exist.

We had a pond with a fence around it to stop the larger animals going in, even if you left the gate open they would mostly stay in their pond area. They do better with a secure shelter as well and to be locked up at night because of foxes, they're usually hardy and big enough to not get eaten but we lost on of our girls when she was sitting on eggs to a bite to the neck through the fence, so after that built them a fairly sized coop to go in at night, a chicken coop wouldn't be big enough. They do leave slimy poo but it's not too bad if you have lots of space and keep them off the main paths/tracks and you don't over feed them.

They are extremely noisy and can be aggressive, everybody who came to the farm hated the geese more than the guard dog lol. I quite like that about them.

you replied with some nonsense about how we were intended to eat meant but not to hunt it

No I didn't.

I will make one last attempt to help you understand:

Obviously someone has to do the hunting, but it doesn't have to be the person who eats the meat. There has always been and always will be someone else willing to do it.

Have a look around next time you are in a supermarket. You will see meat and meat products for sale for people who want to eat meat without hunting.

It's a bit like people who eat a plant based diet. They don't have to pick their vegetables from fields or their fruit from the orchards. They can if they want to, of course, but like the meat eaters they can go to a supermarket if they prefer.

All human beings (including you) are capable of digesting and gaining nutritional benefit from eating both animal and plant foods.

If you were to start eating meat today, your body would digest it and gain nutritional benefit from it. That is what makes us omnivores. That you choose not to does not mean you are not omnivorous by nature.

Nature doesn’t “intend” anything, nor do humans have a singular “nature” . Evolution is a process of selection for random gene mutations in the context of a given environment. That’s all it is. No grand design. Only randomness, survival and relativity to a changing environment.

An omnivore is a person or animal that eats a variety of plant and animal products. I am not an omnivore.

I am a picture of health. Thank you for asking.

and a sheep farmer and a chicken keeper.

fancy a leg of lamb?

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I'm glad to hear it. As am I on a vegan diet, which I thoroughly recommend for its health benefits. Unlike you, my livelihood doesn't depend on other people choosing to eat a certain way. I also have the experience of both ways of eating so am able to compare, presumably also unlike you. So I think its fair to say I'm in a position to be more objective.

Believe it if you like, but it would bugger world economies and cause famine if we outlawed it… it would take decades to create a food industry that could sustain the world population without meat.