Should We Eat Less Meat

Would you eat less meat if you had to kill it all yourself?

I would eat more meat.  Here's why.First of all, I like meat enough that I would not be willing to give it up completely, and that means that I'd be killing some myself.  There's two ways to get meat at that point, hunting and raising one's own livestock...  Either of those methods are pretty cost intensive on the front end.  Hunting means buying gear, a rifle, and probably a pickup.  Livestock means space, and facilities for animals, and dealing with waste and such.  Both require facilities to prepare and butcher an animal.  But once you have those things, the cost per pound of meat is really pretty low.  For many years, I never had beef.  Meat in my family was either from deer or elk, hunted by my father.  Most of that meat was much better than what I get in the grocery store.  Part of it was because it's not fed a perfectly processed diet to maximize growth rate and pounds of product.  Part of it is because there's something special about producing your own food, whether grown from your own garden, taken with your own rifle, or caught on your own fishing line.

How can I eat less meat?

How can I eat less meat?I’ve found that two meals a day suits me better than the traditional three. I eat late morning and late afternoon. So two meals automatically cuts my calorie count… and that means I eat less food including meat.I also found that I haven’t much necessity for large portions, including meat. I use a smaller plate and don’t indulge in “seconds”.I heard that a portion size of any one item is about the size of a pack of cards, so I follow that advice, more or less.Occasionally I go out to a restaurant that confuses quality with quantity and heaps a plate with too much of a good thing. I’ll overindulge in the protein because that’s what I like best, but otherwise I just take smaller portions.Easy peasy…

Should Americans be eating less meat?

Health-wise, yes, the average American eats too much meat. Moreover the average American is not at all involved in the process of raising and gathering their food, so unscrupulous people have an incentive to sell them foods at the highest possible prices with the lowest possible quality. This applies equally to vegetables and to meats.If people would raise their own animals, most Americans would eat less meat. A typical back yard could support a few chickens, but not a thousand; and when you have to kill and clean a chicken yourself, you accept some of the real cost of putting meat on the table.Meat is an excellent source of nutrition, vegans be damned, it’s the truth. But it is no longer a good food when it is contaminated with toxins and artificially fattened. If the typical American would reduce their meat intake by giving up the hot dogs, pink slime, chicken nuggets, bologna, and other garbage meats and have only a quarter as much meat but of much higher quality, including for instance natural organic grass fed beef and other fine meats, they’d be healthier and their food would taste better, and it wouldn’t cost a cent more than what they’re paying for eating four times as much meat of crap quality.

Should I stop eating meat?

There are  few ways of looking at this: Morally - The animals these days, as Debra mentioned, are raised for food and housed in the worst of conditions with a diet that's supplemented with hormones and antibiotics. Think about that statement for a moment - These animals are raised for food. Essentially an animal is born and never knows what it feels like to run, to fly or to be free. Their life starts in a factory and ends there. This is perhaps human cruelty at it's worse, and since people don't see these things happening, their apathy increases. It's an inconvenient truth and people often ignore it.        When people say that humans used to hunt for meat all the time, it's a valid argument. However, these animals today don't even have a fighting chance. They'll never know what it feels like to be in nature. It's nothing like hunting.  Environmentally - The environmental strain that goes into rearing these animals is massive. Here's an article to start you off-The Environmental Impact of a Meat-Based DietObviously, the article is housed in a website called "The Vegetarian Times" and therefore I would say look up a few more neutral sources. The water, land and grain that goes into animal husbandry could be used to feed a lot more people. Nutrition - It's been argued that meat is detrimental to human health, perhaps the strongest arguments come from naysayers of red meat(10 Reasons To Stop Eating Red Meat). More pertinently, vegetarian food fulfils all the nutritional needs that are applicable to a human being, and meat-eaters have no additional advantages. 4.  Taste - There are often people who say that meat is a must for them, a two-time a day thing. These people have been on a meat diet since they were children and for them, nothing is tastier, and eating lesser amounts (or none) is not doable for them. The simple fact is that it's a habit solidified in their childhood. If there were raised as vegetarians, perhaps they would feel nauseated by the sight/smell of meat. It's just another habit which, with conviction and willpower, can be overcome. Quite obviously, I lean towards less meat since I see absolutely no positive in eating more meat.

What is the most effective way to get people to eat less meat?

You people need to get over yourselves. If you dont want to eat meat then fine.  But you have no right to force such lame choices on the rest of us who ENJOY meat.   Anyhow, good luck.   The American Cattlemans Association is one of the biggest most politically powerful grouos in the US, right up there with the National Rifle Assiciation which is itself a big supporter of hunting - meat.   Poultry and hog producing corporations like Tyson and Conagra and members of the American Pasturized Poultry Producers Association and the National Pork Producers Association also have powerful lobbies.   No way youll eliminate refucing meat sales without a very long, very hard, very expensive legal battle.  And they have nothing to worry about because we want their meat.  If puctures of the slaughter house horrors dont change our minds do yoy think theres anything else that will?   Be a veggie, sweety, and more power to you but stop stressing yourself over what choices others make.  Its our business what we eat, not yours.  By the way, I very much  enjoyed by 1/2 bacon cheese burger that i had for dinner.  And the chicken thigh i had for lunch and the ham n eggs on toast i had for breakfast.  Yum! NOTHING you could say or do will make me stop eating meat.