Actually, it's relatively safe to eat raw meat if it's fresh. The reason you have to cook most meat is because it's been sitting out for days or weeks and it comes from unhealthy, genetically engineered animals. There is a huge difference between a wild turkey and the turkeys we have engineered to be our food.
As an admitted predator, I eat meat all the time. Herd animals were put on this earth to be a source of food for predators. It's only natural that we eat these types of animals, and since humans were smart enough to come up with a food industry, we just have it easier than other predators. I will agree that some of the practices are cruel, but if it weren't for our food industry, everyone would starve because of overpopulation.
I suppose I would have a lot more trouble eating the meat of other predators (like dogs and cats). Since they are more intelligent, sympathetic and affectionate towards us, it would hit much closer to home if we had to start eating them. But if we
had to, we would. After all, a tiger or pack of wild dogs would eat you up if there was nothing else around that was easier to kill, wouldn't they?
You could take it one step further and say that plants have feelings too. There have been a few studies that tried to prove this, and we know for a fact that they are alive. What would vegans do if they found out plants had feelings?
Pigs eat bacon. Nuff said.
