People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.
Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.
The meat that I choose to feed my family, it's healthy meats such as lamb, which is very low in cholesterol and saturated fat. And then turkey - we eat a lot of turkey. We don't eat loads of beef.
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.
The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.