What are your feelings about eating meat?
Jetpack Prompt 12/1/25


“Where kindness is concerned, make no distinction between humans and other living beings.”
(Timber Hawkeye)

I suppose it’s easy for me to overlook being a meat eater without considering where the source of the meat originated from. I mean do I really want to think about those overcrowded cattle pens where cows become fattened up to eventually end up as corpses in the slaughter house? But there have been occasions where I’ve begun to question why I’m so heedless about living animals being eliminated just so myself and millions of others can just enjoy their meat.

I think this matter boils down to do we eat meat to live or live to eat meat. With this dilemma, I am perfectly fine rationalizing positively the first option. For a good steak or hamburger for instance does provide a good source of protein to make me a healthier person. But according to the second conclusion, there’s nothing particularly appealing about glorifying meat eating culture.

A true test of my resolve to put my meat eating decisions placed in a moral perspective would be whether I could convince myself living as a hermit in the woods to go out and kill an innocent animal like a deer, rabbit, or duck and then consume it for much needed food. So I would more likely go out and gather plants in the surrounding environs under such isolated conditions to enable myself to survive.

Perhaps I’ve also learned from past visits to vegetarian based India why cows are considered sacred part of the family unit, not a an object to destroy for their meat. So in spite of living much differently amid the ubiquitous culture of fast food hot dogs, hamburgers…. that glorifies enjoyment of meat, for such worldly – wise reasons I could definitely go meatless if I really tried.