Are meat eating vets the biggest hypocrites in the history of mankind?

I don't really have an opinion on the vets but I think that it must run through their heads and make them question what they do from time to time if they choose to eat meat. I'd just like to make the point about all these posts about it's worst for them in the wild, what an ignorant thing to say. It's not in a pigs nature to be inside a cage its entire life, so what if it's apparently worst in the wild (which I do not believe), it's not a humans choice to make, just because it's worst for them justifies they aren't given a shot at a normal life? What a load of rubbish. Also condoning what we do because of what animals do in the wild really makes me question the intelligence of some people, "but animals eat meat", really?

At the end of the day, you people saying killing animals is humane. There is no way of killing something that doesn't want to die humanely, and there is nothing you can change about that fact.

No way, this is a total cop out. Are you saying that a doctor who paid others to farm and kill humans for his or her own enjoyment wouldn't be hypocritical?

On the one hand the doctor supposedly values human life and helps to save it, but on the other he or she financially supports and gains pleasure out of the injury and destruction of humans elsewhere? Either the doctor values the health and happiness of humans or s/he doesn't.

The doctor doesn't get off the hook just because s/he "sees a lot of his or her patients die" anyway, or by pointing out "all things must eventually die".

I missed the part where I said that livestock are killed for enjoyment. Last time I checked it was for a source of food, and other things.

Funny thing is I don't need to justify it, I don't eat meat because it produces high emissions. I just know the argument that killing animals is inhumane is frankly ridiculous.

Look, I get it, its very easy to attach human emotions to animals despite in most cases the scientific evidence just not being there. I love animals, I don't particularly want to kill them, but I don't think it's the moral abomination you make it out to be because I have actually spent thousands of hours observing animals in the wild, and know it to be a lesser 'evil' than that which they would face in their natural habitat.

I do value the animals I see on farms, but I also accept that they only ever lived for the purpose of farming. That sounds harsh but as long as the animals are kept in good conditions and I consider that they've not suffered overly muching, I'm happy to eat the meat. I also have some standards like only eating free range eggs etc.

I see no reason for humans to not eat animals, they're tasty. Animals kill each other all the time without remorse, and humans are animals, too. Why should we not take advantage of the planet's resources?

Obviously, it all has to be in a sustainable way.

Killing animals can very often be inhumane, though. A significant proportion of slaughters in secular abattoirs go wrong, which equates to millions of nonhuman animals dying painful deaths every year. And, the vast majority of countries in the world don't even have the laws that, say, Britain has. In the United States, there are no laws regarding the humane slaughter of chickens, for example.

You do, unfortunately, present a false dichotomy between domesticated animals kept in farms and animals in the wild. Many vegans and vegetarians advocate phasing out domesticated farm animals, not releasing them into the wild, which is, I agree, largely a world of immense suffering.

Investigations of free-range egg farms have demonstrated that they're often not much of a step up, in terms of welfare, at all for the animals. In fact, "free-range" is more of a marketing technique than anything, given that it simply requires that there's a small hole in a shed, which will usually be crowded with hens, through which they can escape and go outside for a few hours a day, before being crammed back in.