The Most Annoying Arguments for Eating Meat — Destroyed

Dear meat lovers, think before you argue

In various forums, I keep reading discussions between vegetarians, vegans, and omnivores. I hear the following arguments in favor of meat and dairy consumption most frequently:

Our Nature:

Being part of nature comes with the necessity of being cruel

Human Anatomy:

i) The human body is the proof of our adaptation to animal products ii) We need animal proteins and nutrients

High Costs:

Vegan nutrition is way too expensive

Today, I want to respond to these arguments. Okay, get ready. Let’s destroy these arguments.

Our Nature: Being Part of Nature, Comes With the Necessity of Being Cruel

‘That’s the way nature operates; nature is tough!’ I hear these arguments for eating meat and animal products all the time.

To argue with nature when it comes to the description of the most unnatural, most split-off, most secretive industries of the entire evolution — that’s where my desire to discuss the topic usually ends.

Nevertheless, today I will write down a few thoughts on this.

Nature is ‘tough’, and that is why we are industrializing the dairy and meat industries into a monstrous rape-killing-torture and warzone. Aha.

What humans have set up in terms of the killing machinery cannot be found in nature, in the flora, nor in bacteria, fungi, amphibians, mammals, among birds — nowhere.

Only we heartless human meatheads do that.

When animals are led into the slaughterhouse, they scream. Even if they have never been to the pasture, they get it intuitively: there is hell in there! Opposed to that in nature, they would run away from an enemy, fight back or play dead.

Screaming is not part of a prey’s natural program.

Do we really want to compare factory farming, milk robbery under torture conditions, and industrial slaughterhouses with “tough nature”? How heartless and disconnected do you have to be to not see the differences?

To somehow hold out our cold-bloodedness, we dissociate our behavior. This dissociation, too, only occurs in humans, and in no other species, as far as I know.

I have never heard of predator animals storing excess prey in natural wildlife for any economic reasons. In wildlife, prey-bodies are consumed entirely. There is never trash left or missed expiry dates.

We, on the other hand, have been shipping and managing mountains of butter (there is an actual word in German for this: “BUTTERBERGE”) and wrecked meat all over the globe for decades. We produce these “goods” in such unnatural ways and amounts that we would rather throw them away and let them rot than stop subsidizing these industries and speculations with food.

That is not only unnatural, but it is also the opposite of nature: this is senseless and calculating enslavement of our animal companions, other species and life forms, including plants, forests, rainforests, rivers, oceans, soil, and seeds — a pure extinction of life.

If you want to be cruel, you do not need to drag in “Nature”. Nature works in entirely different ways.

Instead, say “Culture”, or better the lack of Culture: looking at the Latin origins of the word culture is ‘cultura.’ It means to care for the soil, development of the acre, agriculture to make the earth flourish.

Neither nature nor culture works as arguments for animal product consumption. Both the meat and dairy industries correlate with the depletion of the planet for all future generations if someone doesn’t invent something else very soon.

Plus, they destroy a gigantic amount of subsidies: our taxpayers’ money. Again, none of this exists in nature.

In nature, you will also not find anything like marinating, boiling, roasting, cooking, frying, and seasoning for days to somehow get down the corpses that you hardly want to touch and slaughter and that you certainly cannot catch and tear with your bare hands.

Ancient tribes that have lived in harmony with nature celebrate recurring rituals of gratitude for the meat that they hunt and kill in order to live.

Indigenous peoples have no slaughterhouses, and frozen pizza with bacon toppings and spaghetti Bolognese packed from the supermarket.

As cultured people, we dissociate our crimes and spread nonsense about vitamins and proteins.

Completely disconnected people arguing with nature that does not make sense at all!

The Anatomy

i) The Human Body Is the Proof of Our Adaptation to Animal Products

The teeth and jaws of humans are ridiculous when compared to omnivores or carnivores. If you tried to use your teeth and hands and legs for hunting down a pig, kill it, and eat it without a knife and fork, the pig would probably eat you first. Because pigs are real omnivores.

You will not be able to kill and eat a domestic pig, not a wild boar, and not even a chicken with our physical equipment only, which means without tools and fire.

I would like to see how the two of us go hunt, catch, kill and munch on pigs and deer in the wild, naked and without tools, fire or weapons, but of course, very anatomically.

Believe me, you will become vegan very quickly.

Perhaps, one fine day we will find an egg that a crow did not see before us. Once a year or so. Real carnivores like wolves, wild cats, or eagles would laugh at us.

If you try to argue with your anatomy, please be consistent. I don’t know what kind of claws and jaws you have, and how fast you can run, but I think I would probably stick with roots and fruits.

My legs, hands, teeth, and digestive tract do not allow me to tear down an animal and digest without boiling it first.

Among 8 billion people maybe a handful of Maasai specialists are trained to do so — but then, they also use weapons and fire.

So, anatomy speaks more in favor of veganism.

Just think of the lactose intolerant bunch. Think about how long our intestinal system is. Carnivores have a super-short intestine so that the corpse doesn’t start to rot while being digested.

And our canines, hahaha! Ask me. I am a dentist!

Our canines breakthrough late in the dentition, at the age of 11 years. Sometimes they prevail in the jawbones forever. More and more people need both, surgery AND sophisticated orthodontic treatment so that their canines breakthrough at all. Sometimes these procedures take years of interdisciplinary dental artwork and force!

Suppose, the canines have grown properly — which animal do you want to kill with them?

Chicken? With all the feathers? No way.

ii) We Need Animal Proteins and Nutrients

You are also mistaken when it comes to essential proteins and nutrients.

“Typical vegans” on average take in more vitamins than “typical omnivores”, and I suspect more and more that the whole “you need protein” narrative is nothing but a hoax of the meat industry (see The Game Changers) and a collective addiction, something like alcohol and cigarettes.

As a vegan, you usually eat vegetables, whole grains, fruits, and legumes all the time. And these provide a whole bunch of vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, and necessary nutrients.

There is only one vitamin that you need to supplement as a vegan: vitamin B12.

As a vegan, you don’t take that in because you probably wash your salad: B12 is made by bacteria that sit on leaves and other greens. Once washed off, the vitamins are gone, too.

However, research is on arise to find vitamin B12 originating from algae and bacteria. If you are interested, you can throw an eye on algae and fermented products that contain vitamin B12. We are not there, yet, but soon we will be.

98% of livestock farming animals are typically fed with vitamin B12 supplements, along with antibiotics and steroids. So, you get your vitamin B12 via meat or the animal product, such as milk, yogurt, or eggs.

Therefore, as a vegetarian or omnivore, you do not need any additional vitamin B12. In return, you get cancer, gout, heart attacks, diabetes, or strokes more quickly.

There is no medical need to eat animals or animal products. By the way, many omnivores suffer from nutrient and vitamin deficiencies.

High Costs: Vegan Nutrition Is Way Too Expensive

The next argument ‘vegan diet is expensive’ is nonsense.

Pasta, rice, potatoes, bread, lentils, beans, and vegetables cost as much or as little for vegans as they do for omnivores. You only replace the expensive meat with cheap beans or tofu.

So teeth, anatomy, nature, and high costs do not work as arguments for the habitual eating of meat.

“Nature” for me is still the most painful one of all three.

If you argue with the caveman, where is your cave, then!

Final Thoughts

The three most frequent arguments for meat consumption are rubbish.

The only arguments for animal product consumption are the learned sense of taste, conditioning, unwillingness to learn something new and traditional: the pressure of the dead peer group.

For all of you who say ‘it is my personal choice to eat meat’, I say — yes, right. First, you choose to produce fatal victims, and then, you eat them.

Bravo. Grand use of your free spirit. Wow. It’s all just sad and disgusting.

P.S.

For every 100 joules that you put into a cow to make beef out of it, 4 joules end up with the consumer.

What a monstrous destruction machinery of energy, water, earth, and money! There is no other industry with such a poor outcome. That is only possible with subsidies.

I am out of this article now. I am done.

Thanks to S M Mamunur Rahman for his suggestions on improving this article.

And thank you for reading.

If you want to read more of my writings, you may read the following one published in The Masterpiece.