What do religious and non-religious people feel about meat eating?

I don't have a problem with eating meat.

It's tasty although I would never kill it myself.

I am one of 3.5 million vegans in the UK alone. The number is growing rapidly as people choose compassionate living, and a plant based diet.

Haven't eaten meat for over 30 years.

I would eat human flesh as soon as any other animal. There is no difference.

It is important to be a voice for the voiceless. Join in debate on the issue, and take direct action on animal rights (sabotaging hunts, burning animal transport lorries in their depots, blockading meat farms and slaughterhouses, exposing farms and farmers cruel practices, causing economic damage to the animal exploitation industry, etc etc).

Meat is slow poison. Particularly mammals. They don't digest, and the human body doesn't cope with it well. 


When I was a kid, we pretty much just ate "game", meaning rabbit and squirrel, fish and turtle. Rabbit never did digest well. Squirrel is one of the few mammals that digest a bit better.


I used to like steaks and burgers, but they got me sicker and sicker, and finally stopped eating them in about 1991. The changes on my body was phenomenal. I could run ten times further, and do many things I never could before. 


There's also a more supernatural effect of "confusion" that eating meat puts on your soul. It does act within the brain, as a part of the enemy's world. It isn't by accident that "fasting" is a religious practice. 


I don't even eat the more digestible mammals any more (squirrel and deer), because there is no need to. I still eat fish, with a fondness for salmon and tuna mostly, and birds, though I try to cut down on chicken. I like eggs and dairy products, too.


The less that any animal is in your diet, the better off your health is, but particularly mammals. Some people can do the "eat meat twice a week" thing, but that would just drive me crazy. I had to go cold turkey. 

I think my case is fairly typical for people who stop eating meat. For the first two months or so, I was going crazy, and I wouldn't even eat fish or birds. Just fruits and vegetables.

In about the third month, it was easier, with the "craving" gone, though I still thought of the good taste of a medium rare rib eye steak. But it wasn't torture to pass up.

After about six months, mammal meat actually began to repulse me. I realized that it was a drug that just got me sick. Lets call it what it is: a dangerous drug on the order of opiates.

I had an experience feeling uncomfortable eating a kind of meat many years ago. I was sitting next to my Jewish friend Mark. Pork chops were the special that evening, but I chose something else in deference to the religious beliefs of my friend. He was the next to order and went for the pork chop.

   I was getting groceries from the store when I noticed they had cans of "Brunswick Stew."  I was surprised because I didn't think many people would want a stew with squirrel in the recipe.  I read the label.  It did not contain any squirrel.

Catman just doesn't like the taste of meat.

Replace milk with oat milk (hazelnut milk if you like it creamy and sweet).

Replace cheese with vegan cheeses. Plenty of quality varieties available now, for salad and cooking uses.

Replace peperroni with vegan spiced sausage slices. Again many varieties to try.

Companies are now nailing the meat taste and texture in meat substitute products if you need a stepping stone.

I don`t care what people eat.

I rarely eat beef and pork, preferring chicken and fish for my protein intake, however, the fine Italian pork products are hard to pass up (prosciutto, pancetta, etc.)



I believe the scientific data on the health benefits of vegetarian and vegan diets is inconclusive, and that going moderate is likely more healthy than either generous consumption of meat or complete abstinence. I try to follow a Mediterranean diet: it seems to be good for my bloodtests, makes me feel good and it tastes good. That and plenty of exercise is a good plan in my opinion.

I have friends that are strict vegan, mainly out of concern for their health, but they don't exercise hardly at all, and I think they're fooling themselves into thinking that diet alone will keep themselves healthy.