Why I eat meat

This is really a good question to ask myself, 'why did I eat meat'?

Most likely, the answer is, because someone told me to do so, whom was also told to do so.

Who originally said this? Very likely someone trying to experience new things in life.

It was at that moment very rare, exclusive… and those are things that catch quite often humans attention. So probably more tried it out and it became so culturally involved, that we don’t know better than what we do today.

Some logic reflections I make myself;

• How do I get my meat? Do I take it from dead animals on the street? If not, how do I kill the animals? (I don’t… euhm… that’s strange… I eat killed animals and I’m not capable of killing them myself, how will I survive?)

• I rather prefer not to know that they were killed. (mmm… so I eat meat and don’t like to see slaughterhouses… normally it should be a pleasure to see that… since it is that delicious meat I will eat.)

• In his raw form, so just killed, what kind of meat do I like? (none… well that’s strange… I’m a meat eater and there is no meat that I eat raw, they all need some kind of preparation.)

• I like it when it is prepared and cooked in a specific way with special (plant based) spices on it. (so I only like it after it has been prepared in a specific way… isn’t that strange?)

• It tastes nice when I get it into my mouth, now when it goes into my body, it doesn’t feel that nice anymore. It just feels full.

Isn’t it strange that I eat something that morally I cannot get myself (I need others to kill it for me) and I only like it when it is completely prepared with some kind of sauce?

Let’s now take the example with a simple vegetable, the carrot.

How do I get my carrot?

I get it out of my garden where it grows and I don’t need to be a serial killer doing that, even the children do it without further trauma.

I prefer the carrot out of my garden above the one from the shop, the taste is completely different and I’m pretty sure the nutritions in it, are as well.

When I get it out of the garden, I remove the muddy dirt from it and eat it right away.

Yes, I can prepare and cook it as well, now it is not necessary and it is a different experience.

When it gets into my body, it feels nice and I feel great afterwards.

If I’m not completely convinced of the above, I should try and compare them against each other, which is what I did, and it opened my world completely.

I left meat out, since I realized it is in for nothing.

Like musician Paul McCartney once said: “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian”.

Why do you eat meat?

What are your sources who learned you this?

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