[crazywiggy]

Heh...You can show me reasons to eat meat. I've been looking - and its all shallow, stupid reasons that I can find. Y'know, jokey reasons like 'why are animals made out of meat then?" [uhh why are humans? Does that mean we should be cannibals?] and 'it tastes nice'...So plz tell. I wanna know. When we debated nobody had many reasons for eating meat XD

I think you misunderstood the point of my post.
I wasn't trying to say that I think people should eat meat. Far from it. I just do not agree that we shouldn't.

But since you have specifically asked about my beliefs, and "reasons to eat meat" I will explain how I feel about it:

Having looked at the evidence presented by both sides, I believe that human beings are by nature omnivorous. We can digest meat, dairy etc in a way that most true veggie species can not. We do not have the multiple stomachs, or internal microorgansisms etc of the true herbivores, so we can not get most of the benefit from green foods. We could not survive or thrive on nothing but fruit and veg because of the vitamins, minerals, fats etc that we would lack. And as most natural plant based foods are low in calories and virtually fat free, we would not get enough energy from them either.

Our bodies are designed for a varied diet. We need to get the protein, b-vitamins etc from somewhere.

Meat is the most natural way to do this. It provides the nutrients we can not get - or would have difficulty getting - from other sources. Lean meat, in appropriate amounts, is healthy.

Anyway, long story short (ish), human beings are designed to consumed a certain amount of animal products. A natural diet for us is a varied one, which includes meat.

There are a great many species which are omnivorous or carnivorous. I do not believe it is morally wrong for a shark to eat fish, a bird to eat worms, or a wolf to eat deer. By this same principle I do not believe it is morally wrong for a person (an omnivore) to eat meat.

I just don't understand how you can say you love animals...then eat one.

I assume you realise that very few people in the world actually share identical beliefs?

I have made it clear on many occasions that I personally do not believe in "animal rights", but that I do fully believe in "animal welfare".
If I had no concerns (or love) for animals, then I wouldn't care about animal welfare.

My personal belief is that it is morally wrong to cause any creature (human or animal) unnecessary suffering.
The emphasis here being on both unnecessary and suffering.

For example - I am completely against intensive farming because it causes suffering. It is unnecessary because it is does purely to increase profits.

However, death itself does not automatically cause suffering. Death may be a terrible, terrifying experience - or it may be a peaceful, pain free, humane death.
Hence I would prefer to see better legislation and working practices to ensure humane slaughter of livestock.

As I have stated, I do not believe it is morally wrong to kill an animal to eat it. But I do believe it is wrong to cause an animal to suffer, so that you can eat it.
All animals should have a good quality of life and a humane death.

I claim to be an animal lover because I do genuinely care about animals. I do not like to see animals suffer, nor do I like to see them needlessly destroyed. And I do make the effort to live by my beliefs... I eat a low meat diet, eat meat from the most humane sources, etc. I adopt - not buy - pets. I spend my own time and money trying to educate people, campaigning, supporting animal welfare, rescue, conservation etc. Just because I don't weep and wail about how terrible it is for a meat eating species to eat meat, doesn't mean I don't care at all.

Animals in Africa get a better value of life, I think. I would prefer animals to be eaten in Africa than in MEDC's.

What a lovely pigeonhole you have just put us all in!
Perhaps you should judge each case individually? Would you say an animal farmed in the UK to free range, organic, and RSPCA "freedom food" certified standards, is worse off than some of the starving livestock animals in Africa, who are in some cases denied a proper diet, any shelter or vet care?

If you don't mind me asking - are you vegetarian or strictly vegan?
You seem to have such strong views on how it wrong to kill animals for food, but unless you are vegan you are still doing just that. Dairy products, eggs etc all directly result in animal death.