Silverrose1991 Well, I think it's is an option: you can be vegetarian or can eat meat. I eat meat, but I respect people who are vegetarians, as long as they respect my eating habits.

-SilverFey- ^I do agree with that. It's their life, their choice. I have a friend who is vegetarian, actually. :)

ITF Would you go out and kill an animal yourself to eat? Would you look an animal in the eyes and and kill him because you like the taste of his flesh? Would you kill your dog or cat? What makes them any better then a deer or chicken? It IS wrong to eat an animal! What about the animals? It is really their life you are taking. Do they get a choice? Do they come and ask you to eat them? There is an abundance of people. Do you eat them? Is living in tiny cages and pens not hurting animals? Is killing a rabbit not hurting the rabbit? What about her babies? What about the other rabbits? If one of my ducks die, the others go around and look for him and quack very loud. It is so sad. If you love animals you will not kill them nor eat them. Ask yourself these questions. And remember this, "Thou shalt not kill."

Honeytail PEOPLE are over-running the planet! And you're worried about DEER over-running it?! Most meat-eating animals HAVE to LIVE on meat. People don't have to.

-SilverFey- @ITF: I don't eat any animals that live in tiny cages, I only eat animals that have grown up in meadows and fields, on farms and pastures. They are killed humanely, in a way that does not hurt them. They are calm when they die. And the only time the animals I eat are killed is when they do not have babies. The babies belonging to the animal have to be grown before the animal can be killed. And by the way, that sentence is from the Bible. A lot of people aren't Christian. I am not Christian. Bible verses are not an argument. @Honeytail: Well, it wouldn't be good if both people and deer were over running the planet, now would it? And as I said, we have freaking canine teeth. We are made to eat meat. We are omnivores. So it's actually not as healthy for us not to eat meat. Like I said, I have nothing against vegetarians: this is just my personal opinion. I gave mine as respectively as I could; I would appreciate it if you could do the same.

ITF "A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare." Plutarch Dave Scott, considered the world's greatest tri-athlete, holds a degree in exercise physiology. In his words, it's a 'ridiculous fallacy' to think that athletes need animal protein. He is joined in his views by such Olympians as Edwin Moses, the gold medalist who went eight years without losing the 400-meter hurdle competition, and Murray Rose, who, at age 17, won three gold medals in the Olympic swim competition. This year, I was glad to see Olympic champion Carl Lewis crown his career with his best long jump in two years to win a record-tying ninth gold medal. Lewis, of course, is a longtime vegan whose dietary changes developed out of his moral and religious convictions. Several years ago Leroy Burrell and Carl Lewis traded titles back and forth when they were being hailed as the fastest sprinters in the world - and both were vegetarians. Whether you are a world-class athlete, a weekend athlete, or simply a recreational exerciser, we know that you can meet your performance objectives, and improve your health by eating a plant-based diet that meets your energy needs. Even at my present age of 93, I found that switching to a plant-based diet improved my health dramatically." Dr. Benjamin Spock (World's foremost pediatrician; author of "Baby and Child Care") "As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures, there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together." Isaac Bashevis Singer "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." Anna Sewell (Author of "Black Beauty"; 1820-1878 "My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension." Benjamin Franklin (Politician, writer, scientist; 1706-1790) You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. -Harvey Diamond It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. -Percy Bysshe Shelley Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being. -Plutarch

HarleySkywalker I agree with [b]ITF[/b] and [b]Honeytail[/b] As my quote use to be: "I rather kill a person than an animal" l don't have anything against meat-eaters! l just can't stand people who are telling me what to eat! l desided that l'm gonna be a vegeterian/vegan for the rest of my life and nobody can't change up my mind! And l don't understand how can people kill an innocent animal and then eat it!!! And if some of you here who are not vegetarians would see what are people doing in some of factories such as Tyson hog factory farm in Oklahoma you would change your mind!!