Why do so many of us eat meat, which involves killing? I have faced this question umpteen times and honestly, I had no idea why it is permitted in Islam, until I read a book by Dr Zakir Naik that deals with these common questions. The book gives logical and scientific reasons. And before any justification, I would like to clarify that it is not compulsory in Islam to have non-veg food; it is only permitted.
Dr Naik says meat is nutritious, with all the 8 essential amino-acids that cannot be synthesised by our body. It also contains iron, vitamin B1 and niacin. Next, all herbivorous animals have flat teeth suited only for herbivorous diet, whereas all carnivorous animals have pointed teeth for carnivorous diet. But human teeth are both pointed and flat. Also herbivores can digest only vegetables, and carnivores, only meat, but we humans can handle both.
Many people abhor meat because it means killing creatures. But plants also have life. So that logic is violated, even by being vegetarian. People also argue that plants cannot feel pain. However science has proved that plants do feel pain. We cannot hear them because their sound does not lie in the audio range of human beings (20 to 20,000 Hertz). When a farmer in US invented an instrument to convert the cry of a plant to audible range, he heard plants crying for water! Later research reveals that plants, too, feel happy and sad. Some argue that plants have only two or three senses, whereas animals have five senses, so it is a lesser crime to kill plants. What if you have a brother who is deaf and dumb (has two senses less) and someone murders him? Would you ask the judge to spare the murderer as he killed a person who had fewer senses? So, finally, it is a only personal choice to eat animal flesh or not.
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