Meat is murder?

Technically, all food is murder, unless you're capable of photosynthesizing or eating things that are solely chemicals. Meat is murder, but so is eating any plant, which is basically the only other option for human beings. What's intriguing about this is that if you mention it to these very self-righteous vegetarians and vegans, the bulk of them will respond with "plants don't have feelings." Seems awfully hypocritical for a group that has advocated that many animals can feel in ways we don't always easily perceive would then turn around and say another life form, which almost certainly does "feel" to some extent, is incapable of regarding pain and death.

Generally, though, I think their best message is not "meat is murder," it's "meat is torture." Factory farming is certainly torturous for the animals involved, living in small, dirty spaces, being force fed foods and antibiotics for the purposes of improved growth and the like. There's certainly something to be said about how we treat animals, and really the only defensible response is that we need a lot of meat, and this is the way to get it. The reality is that if we didn't have that large amount of meat, we'd need a lot more arable land to produce more plant products. However, I don't think this justifies what we put these animals through, it just justifies the expansion of current animal farming practices to wider areas in my opinion.

No, I think it's just biology. Yes, animals are living things, but so are plants. Would that make vegetarians and herbivores murderers? There are also many carnivores and omnivores in the animal kingdom, including humans. If humans weren't meant to eat meat, why the hell do they have canine teeth?

Humans having always been eating meat and they will always eat meat. There might be vegetarians but the fact that a large amount of humans eat meat is never going to change, no matter how religiously animal rights supporters push it. I myself love meat and don't see myself ever cutting it out of my diet. I don't feel that someone is a cold-blooded killer just because he/she ate a hamburger or a steak or that someone is a sadistic psychopath who hates animals because he/she loves to eat chicken. Sure it might not be necessary for humans as omnivores, but meat, including chicken and fish, have their health benefits including protein and B vitamins. It's debatable that eating meat is no longer needed, but expecting humans who love to eat meat to stop because of an ideology that all carnivores and omnivores except humans can eat other animals and not be evil and cruel is unrealistic and wishful thinking.

Yep, meat is murder.

Tasty, tasty murder.

i won't say meat is murder. if they say,then will they complain when lion or tiger hunt for their food.if herbivores aren't hunted then there won't be no nature balance and there will be no food for human coz all plants and trees will be eaten by animals, then where will be the food?

Meat is most definitely a part of life. When you think about it, there is no real logic behind the idea that animals have as much right to life as we do, but we can't eat them. Either they are capable of conscious intelligent thought, making them equal with us, meaning they have no right to eat other animals if we don't. Or, they do it because they aren't capable of considering any other way, meaning they aren't on the same level as us, meaning it is NOT murder.

I think it's part of life. I love animals as much as the next guy and I wouldn't eat dog or cat, or even rabbit. But lets face it; since the beginning of time humans hunted animals for food. We just found more convenient ways to do so at this point in time.

And lets not forget that other animals eat animals. It's the food chain, the circle of life. Wolves eat rabbits, owls eat mice, and lions chase gazelles.

I don't judge people who don't eat mean, likewise they shouldn't call meat eaters murderers.

Murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Its not murder its slaughter, if it is done humanly they dont feel it and or dont know whats happening.