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It's a common and neglected question: Why don't we feel guilty and sinful when we eat animals?

Nowadays, the slaughter of animals is outside the market, and when we buy it home, and they're already dead, does that means we don't have to take responsibility for their deaths?

In this world, with the exception of India, where the proportion of vegetarians is higher (30%), people in many other countries are basically animal nemesis.

From killing living animals to putting them in a pot and serve to the table, the process doesn't seem to have any connection to people's feelings.

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From the general view, animals are animals, they have no conscious and no emotion. But some zoologists point out that many animals can feel happy, sad, excited, resentful, depressed, fearful and miserable as people, and they are more sensitive and intelligent than we think.

Neuroscientists also point out that all mammals and birds, such as farm animals, and other animals have a neurological basis that produces consciousness and is able to experience emotional states.

For example, a cow, when you kill it, it will shed tears, dogs will too. I've seen other people kill dogs, hang them up, start peeling from the nose, for me it's cruel. Why do these people eat the animals they killed and have no guilt at all?

Peter Singer, a pioneer of the University of Melbourne's Animal liberation movement, argues that the unnecessary harm to animals should be avoided if it is possible to survive and be healthy without eating meat, fish, dairy products or eggs.

But this is actually a kind of humanistic concern, not much help to the fate of animals.

Human will still eat animals' meat. Psychologists attribute people's attention and harm towards animals (eating) to the "meat-eating paradox". Most people care about animals and don't want to see them hurt, but their diet requires them to be killed. This concern is actually real, and it seems real to killing animals and eating them.

The deep problem with this contradiction is that it is a racist and dehumanizing perception, the greater the gap between human and animal, the more the human can feel that they are individuals (superiority, because we can eat almost all animals).

In other words, species that are not as good as us, we have reason and ability to eat them. What we used to say: This is a man-eating society, with the law of the jungle.

According to scientists, we eat animals because of racial prejudice, and before, the white American enslavement of blacks was a matter of racial prejudice, but now, the coverage of racial prejudice seems to be broader and more subtle.

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From the point of view of our dehumanization of other animals, it seems to be a good thing for the entire human community to kill and eat them. According to some literature, this is because based on the considerations of the entire human community, we will first consider the value of animals below the human population and ensure the value of the entire human population by killing and eating them.

This suggests that racial prejudice also has a positive link to regionalism, at least to make people feel that this racial bias is not linked to animal exploitation.

With this psychological foundation, killing animals and eating animals doesn't seem so guilty either. Now that you have this less guilty mindset, why don't we all kill our own dog and eat it?

Dog meat is also delicious, and there are many people who like to eat dog meat.

In fact, this is some kind of classification psychology. In order to avoid the discomfort when eating animals, we divide animals into "pets", "wild", "captivity", these categories distinguish a vague animal concept: family.

The concept of family has dramatically changed the relationship between animals and people. For a dog, we have a dog of our own, the dog is part of our family, we would not kill it and would not eat it. However, where possible, we will eat other people's dogs.

In addition to the classification psychology, faith is also the key to people eating meat, such as studies showing that right-wingers eat more meat, and use animals to resist the threat of vegetarianism towards their traditional and cultural practices, and they feel that they are "people" and are the most qualified to consume animals.

From the point of view of human wholeness, there seems to be only one reason why we eat meat: we are “human beings”, this is the biggest psychological motivation, no matter the meat-eating paradox or classification psychology, we being human is the most direct reason.

If you look at animals from two major groups of men and women, the situation is different. There is not only a statistical basis for men to eat animals more than women, but also from reality observation.

Men based on their belief on supporting human dominance, in popular terms, men feel that humans are at the top of the food chain, eating animals is normal. While women are different, on one hand, they do not eat because of the quality of meat such as appearance and taste, on the other hand, because of health, weight, and even environmental problems and animal welfare, and refuse to eat.

This leads to the conclusion that we eat animals because we are human beings, and the situation is a bit complicated when it comes to eating meat between two major groups of men and women, and that’s the topic for another day.

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I only eat cooked meat of fish, pig, cow and goat.
I don't know why hot dogs mostly in the US are popular. Maybe because the name is unique or weird or confusing or lying.

What do you think is in a hotdog ?? Beef or pork .... oh cow or pork .... and guess what you cook a hotdog .... rocket science

Sometimes I do. But I try to eat less often like every 2 weeks or less.

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Why cat eat a mouse? Why bird eat a worm? Why lion eat antelope?
Nature is simple.
Eat or be eaten.
No philosophy here.

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