How We Treat Our Food Before It's Food

 by Mira P.

Humans are omnivores. Of course, not all humans, as some are vegetarians, but the human species is an omnivorous species (we are able to eat both meat and other sources of food).

Back in the early days, humans hunted for their food - in fact, some still do. But a large majority of humans now simply go to the supermarket and buy it there. But how does the meat get there? Do the people hunt it, or do it by other means?

Now, many people reading this will already know what most people do for our meat. But even I don't know the extent of it, and to be honest, I am not curious and too sensitive to research it further. To put it very simply, we don't treat them nicely.

I don't like hunting as a sport, where you do it simply for fun and don't do anything with the animal. But current tribes and old, extinct ones mostly use all of the animal - the meat for food, the hide for clothing, and anything else they can use to help themselves. This doesn't waste the animal - you don't kill it to kill it.

Think about it - were you to be killed, would you prefer to be left there, killed for nothing? Or would you rather your meat and your skin (as creepy as that sounds!) to help them, so that they can keep on living healthily?

Anyway, back to the original subject, the way we treat the cows, and pigs, and chickens isn't okay. It's not how we're supposed to do it, and we're doing it just because it's cheaper. In my opinion, that's not okay.

Another subject is vegetarianism - I have nothing against them (two of my best friends are vegetarians), except for the ones that try to get to convert you to vegetarianism. I eat meat, and always will, though I do not like to eat anything I know hasn't had a good life. The problem I have with it is not necessarily the trying to get me to be a vegetarian, it's why.

Most of the time, they're saying about how it's wrong to treat animals like we do. And yes, I agree. But I disagree that trying to get people to stop eating meat is the right way to do it. Not everybody will stop eating meat, no matter how hard you try (especially because humans are designed to eat meat). There are entire cultures that would laugh at the idea. The right way to try and get it to stop is getting to the core of it. Go to the people who make the meat, not the people who eat it.

What do you guys think of the subject?

A P.S. - Here's a site dedicated to informing and helping. I only looked at the first page, but it's not a gory- picture site - but may contain sad words, so be careful if you're sensitive like me :)