Eat Meat if it is necessary.

This is in response to the prompt- how do you feel about eating meat?

There are animals which eat meat and there are the ones who are vegetarians. As humans we debate as to whether we are designed to eat meat or to be vegetarians. There is an emotional angle as well that we should not harm animals for our hunger.

Perhaps humans started eating meat out of necessity. Not all places on earth are favorable for agriculture.

People living in deserts or places which are under snow for many months in a year, vegetarian may not be available. We are talking about hundreds of years ago. Now we have storages and transports. If we go back by few hundred years more, we did not know about cultivating food.

For them to feed on meat was a matter of survival. similar is the situation where people reside near sea. Saline air, water and soil may not be suitable to a variety of agricultural produce.

Nowadays we have refrigerators and cold storages to store food for weeks and months if not years. In olden days animals were food storage. They could be slaughtered whenever the requirement of food was there.

In olden days it was a challenge to carry perishable food for army which moved for weeks and months together. They used to take a herd of animals along, feeding them on whatever came on way and slaughtered when food was needed. This was the necessity.

These days we have a choice available. We should consider following points.

• whatever vegetarian food we are eating are grown locally or nearby. Long distance transportation means bigger carbon footprint.
• Is there enough for entire world to be vegetarian.

I am not going into the merits or nutritional values or emotional feelings. My thoughts are pure logic and economics.

As far as I am concerned, I am non vegetarian but prefer being vegetarian. My reasoning is that human body is designed to be vegetarian, and I do not like killing a living being for my food.