I don't think it's unethical, strictly from the standpoint of the fact that almost every living thing on the planet needs to consume another living thing to survive.

Sometimes, when I intellectualize what I'm doing when I'm eating a piece of chicken, it kind of weirds me out that I'm eating the flesh of something that used to be alive and walking about.

I think I would feel better about this if I were eating vegan, but I've tried the occasional vegan meal, and haven't found anything really appealing about it yet. Although I know from a scientific standpoint, a plant based diet would probably be more healthy.

I think a some of the ethical issues around eating meat come down to the value people place on the various forms of life we encounter. And because plants don't seem to have the same life awareness as a cow or a chicken, it may be deemed more ethical to eat the plant versus the animal.

I eat organic life forms and someday one of them will eat me. It's the cycle of life. We all take from our environment, and the day will come for all of us when it is our turn to give back.

The only dilemma in my opinion would be whether to eat a lamp chop with a hamburger during the same meal. I'm not sure if this decision is an ethical one in any way but my point is that I'm feeling excited about firing up my grill right about now.

Nope. Survival of the fittest has always been paramount.

No unless it has Goodyear markings.

In order to live another animal(s) must die. I believe strongly that a vegan diet is unhealthy. No known culture anywhere in history did not eat animal protein and fat.

hell no!

I have had times in my life as a vegetarian. I can't kill.
I am trying to transition away form meat and it has been some time now since I have bought any.
I have 3 pet chickens so eat eggs, also eat honey and drink milk though have been working on coconut and other nut milk, hate soy.
Have decided I am probably a flexitarian, won't go into overload if at a friends place but will just try and eliminate meat from my place. I am an ecologist, predators are part of the natural order, I am more than content for this carcase to be consumed, I would prefer it. But the livestock industries are cruel. The animals have no life.
Which would we rather be? A gazelle living free until one day eaten by a lion or some prro farm animal living its life in a pen, no space, no nothing?
Then there is the environmental issue, the environmental costs of eating meat.
So where I sit, eating meat is not unethical, but meat production is.
I am a hypocrite.

I find it okay but wish our animals to be raised happy and humanely, and treated with respect. I thank the animal for feeding me, even though they won't know I am appreciative.

I have given up eating mammals. I still eat chicken and fish. I could probably give them up and may someday. I would still eat dairy and eggs.

My general answer is NO. However I will not eat veal, foie gras and while I've had octopus etc and love it... feel bad when I have it because I love cephalopods and it just seems unnecessary to me. It's rubbery anyway most of the time & I have the feeling ppl eat it just to say they did.

There are just too damned many ppl on this planet. Having had knock down drag out interpersonal disasters with vegetarians & vegans I tread cautiously around them IRL and would probably not be ever seriously, willingly involved with one unless they weren't militant about it, because my daughter CANNOT have 1/2 the "staples" in the GD diet.

No.

Nope, I think it's yuuuuummmmmm...just sayin....yummmmmm

Animals do a lot of things with no ethical judgement. Does this mean ethics are of no value?

I think we need to have more grass fed slaughter as grass fed meat is better for you anyway but as a lifelong cattle rancher I fully support eating meat especially beef as they are one of the few animals who can convert grass and forages to something we can eat. A lot of the grassland is unsuitable for farming as it is to rough and prone to erosion. Without utilizing cattle we have no way of converting this grass from this marginal land into something we humans can eat and millions would starve.

Imho, the main question of whether or not eating meat iis ethical or not depends on whether or not the animal is self aware, can demostrate intelligence or displays emotional responses to actions affecting itself or its environment. If it is capable of these things, then imho it is not ethical to eat them. However, even animals who do not meet this standard deserve to be raised, handled and dispatched in a humane ethical manner. If they are not, then it is unethical to eat these lower creatures as well.

Nope

I don’t think any animal whether farmed or wild wants to die or anything that’s alive for that matter. So it is unethical but the alternative is your own death. So I’ll eat meat and vegetables without hesitation.

In short no.

We don't have a moral obligation not to eat animals.

No

Humans were designed to eat meat. That is why we have incisor teeth.

No

People become ill for many reasons so the odds are that some who become vegetarians or who have always been vegetarians will become ill at some point. I am sure that research would show that he or she would be much less likely to become ill while adhering to a vegetarian/vegan diet but genes and other environmental circumstances will inevitably take their toll.
Killing and eating animals is something that most other animals do to survive. It might simply be a matter of evolution, cognitive development, and moral development that created vegetarians in our closest evolutionary relatives. I hope someday all humans will have developed -cognitively and morally- enough to stop killing and consuming other animals. That would go a long way to solve our exploding medical crisis as well as allowing more people to maintain some level of attractiveness into adulthood.

I would like to change growth to development. So there!!