Killswitch Engage interview

[Kraven7Metal]

we don't wanna have tendons and muscles in our mouths,is like a zombie life .. and if you dont believe it, meat comes with an extra ingredient: little pieces of fucking CRAP.. but if you want meat, then go,.. we ARE NOT FORCING ANYONE TO LEAVE IT!. i'm proud to believe in animals rights,... no one is forcing you, i'm happy with my decision. Also so MANY others musicians, athletes, movie stars, etc... Rock On guys!

[Kraven7Metal]

From Domincan Republic, Mike D I'm with you!!.. is true,. we the veggie people are not forcing the others to leave the meat,. if you think about animals and what people are doing with them, then you are gonna leave the meat! . Mike D is right, "Why we have to kill somebody if we need a snack?".

[FirearmsFreak]

If we're not supposed to eat meat, why is it so tasty?! And if we weren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat? :) People wanna be vegie-tarians; fine. Leave me & my meat alone. Don't try to convert me, tell me how bad I am or what I should eat. Don't be a pretentious ass b/c I made a different choice than you.

To Tranenmeer: I would like to see some of that "proof". Just b/c you can survive using vitamins instead of meat doesn't mean it what the body needs.

[stonedmaiden666]

wow as a hindu i am surprised thats the one thing that affected him. most hindus arent even vegetarians

[mitzdaking]

we have front-cutting teeth to eat veggies

we have fangs to bite of meat

and we have molars to chew everything

every aspect of the human body points out to being an omnivore

so people should stop whining about people eating meat

[daddybluevein]

Stranger Danger

[radoboi]

If we didnt eat meat we wouldnt have evolved from apes......... civilization wouldnt exist.

[VHDT10]

What the hell are you talking about? If we didnt eat meat the way people do, we'd save natural resources and not torture the fuck out of billions of animals every day. Heart disease would decrease, obesity wouldn't be affecting so many people, etc. But no every common idiot needs his/her big mac and every huge company needs their money/control/power. We should really rethink the way we are living.

[radoboi]

Well Obesity is considered to be caused by processed foods not meat. Second i dont eat take away its fucking shit. Third animals are tortured before there slaughtered atleast not in my country. and third if apes didnt eat meat it is proven we would not have evolved into humans and in all reality you wouldnt exist.

But sure heart disease would decrease and so would obesity but that would happen if any fatty food wasnt in someones diet.

[VHDT10]

Dude, we have vegitarian teeth. No sharp claws or pointed teeth. Apes eating meat did not make them evolve into humans. Yes the animals are horribley tortured everywhere, look it up. It may be hard to find some of the vids because the industries don't want you to know or you'd think twice about what you are supporting.

[radoboi]

Whos the one with the degree in human evolution and biology? me or you mate. Also i grew up in the country i know what happens to the cattle that was on our farm. And not all meat eaters have sharp teeth.

[VHDT10]

If you had a degree, you would know the set up of human's teeth is completely for plants. 2nd, one of the THEORIES of evolution is not that we came from apes. Its that we branched off from a descendant of apes. So if apes still eat meat, why didn't they evolve into another type of human, instead of apes? I don't know where you got your degree but you should return it to the manufacturer. I hope you have the reciept.

[egam47]

the thing is, is that meat is still a big part of a healthy diet, fast food places meat isn't really meat i think its only like 10%, yes we should limit ourselves so were not having to kill as many animals but at the same time we need meat to be healthy (and here comes the hate)

[VHDT10]

It really isn't necessary to eat meat for a healthy diet. The only thing it's good for a protien. It causes heart desease, you can get worms, the fat, many bad things with meat. There are alternatives. Get protien from other things. People are just addicted to it and the companies slaughtering the billions of innocent victims are addicted to the money they get. The cycle continues.

[egam47]

hippy =P

[VHDT10]

I think it makes a lot of sense. We all know that we'll never have enough support to change anything. If you eat meat that's great, but watch 'Earthlings' or 'Meet Your Meat' if you still eat meat at least you'll understand why we don't and not get annoyed when we make sense.

[MrNmurray]

our canine teeth are used to eat meat with

[VHDT10]

Well we use machines to dismember animals and torture the fuck out of them on at mass level, to me that's just not the way life shold be for anything. so go hunt your food with these claws and fangs that god gave us but don't use a gun. Unfair.

[themusic928]

like the quotes and its exacly what happened

[urosch7]

PETA RULES

[R3adybreck]

humans originaly didnt eat meat , there is no logical reason why do now (cos we can?) btw i do eat meat but i have no objections to vegetarians

[ChocoboTheftAuto]

i dont have a problem with vegetarians either, but peta is bullshit

[freezepop100]

That's not true, humans have eaten meat since they invented spears.

[R3adybreck]

i shall say nothing

[Wowscreamonub]

humans sacrificed meat, ate mainly meat, and no vegi's originally dude. Finland ate a lot of meat/fish, Nor weigh, Germany hell every European country in history did. Africa too, they ate meat and hunted. Asia, maybe not India as much. Native Americans ate tons of meat, we use Buffalo to force them to move because they ate me. idiot

[R3adybreck]

all humans were originaly gatherers they ate berries and as freezepop100 said they only ate meat after they invented ways to kill animals

[Wowscreamonub]

In other words when they found sticks, humans always known how to kill, Cain and Abel hence. One Sacrificed animals other fruit, so the fruity killed the meat head. I know the conversation is gonna turn into "that's not true"

[R3adybreck]

lol yup ok lets end this with watever anyone can do wat they want im not tryin to get people to become vegies IM NOT A VEGIE i cant live without meat lol yh so do wat u want

[VHDT10]

I'm with you Mikey D!

[WizardDoom]

It's his own opinion and I think it is okay.

And Adam answerd to the question What should be written on your graveyardstone:Drink Beer and Eat Meat^^

[chanjcw]

he's got a point.

[dougiesg101]

eat meat goddamn it...wonder how many pills he is on to keep healthy?...the vitals that come with a good red/ white meat...

[tech1316]

vegitarians don't have to have pills to stay healthy. they just have to eat the right kinds of foods to keep them healthy. Im a vegitarian, and i don't take pills and im perfectly healthy.

[MorbidMistress13]

Typical defense lol.

[Domzdream]

I'm a slave to my instincts. I eat meat. I hate to do it on moral basis. But I fucking relish it!

[Tranenmeer]

if you hate it, change it.

[Domzdream]

I can't. I'm a slave to my instincts. To deny your instincts is like trying to become a priest whilst being a randy bastard.

[o7levi]

the earliest diet was a meat diet, it's what primitive man lived on for thousands of years. there's nothing morally wrong with meat, i don't know why some people make it a moral issue. it's a great way to get all the amino acids your body thrives on. vegans are notorious for having nutritional deficiencies. if meat's so bad, eat eggs..

[Tranenmeer]

nothing wrong with meat? haha

[prechadou]

he looks like collin farrel

[treeunit212]

holy crap his voice kind of sounds like jack blacks...

[treeunit212]

he looks like an emo dude from brooklyn without the beard... hahahah

[SionIKQ]

Mike D! He is a nice little man.

[Reaper976]

he reminds me of Charles Trippy, you know that youtube guy?

[youngblood92]

Microwave Mike xD It is said that no one eat more macaroni and cheese than Mikey D=)

[wjrmyop]

If everyone was a vegetarian the world would be over populated

[xxxmisslollipopxxx]

they could make room by killing all animals that they would otherwise use for meat

[Baneofpain]

"why should something have to die if i wanna snack" dude

[tyman929]

MIKE D is the only cool vegetarian

[Devilater]

I have vegetarian mates but i can not stop eating meat.

[SawViking]

Well, it is changing. I don't think it will fade out entirely. But it can be reduced. We can already now see there is an increased green trend and more and more people turn to vegetarianism.

[Coltsin06]

Jesus, Mike D. is a vegetarian?! Tendons and muscles are good!

[SawViking]

Plants can't feel because they don't have neurons. It's not unreasonable for people to have sympathy for other animals, because animals can feel pain, just like us. We are animals too, after all. Our bodies don't need meat, we can get all necessary nutrients from vegetables. And swatyballs, he's not talking about Christians, he's talking about Hare Krishna.

[giansantiago]

very true.

[magicrev]

we do need meet in our diets, we dont get all we need from vegetables. There are certain things called essential amino acids that can only be obtained from certain meats as your bodies cant synthesise them from other things. Plus we are designed to eat meat, just look at our teeth and the enzymes are bodies produce.

[SawViking]

A vegetarian and a vegan diet will provide the body with the 9 essential amino acids the body requires. Peas, beans, grains, and other vegetables such as corn are rich in amino acids. All amino acids are found in vegetables.

As for humans having carnivorous teeth: we have flat teeth and rounded jaws, unlike carnivores that have long and pointy jaws better suited for biting prey. And unlike carnivores, we cant eat raw meat, and we dont have the enzymes that break down rotting meat.

[SawViking]

Even if humans did have carnivorous teeth, that wouldn't mean it is required to eat meat. Meat production is a highly inefficient distribution of resources, because it requires so much energy. To produce 1 kg of beef, 15,000 L of water is needed, while 1 kg wheat requires only 1000 L. Cows are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas. A thousand years ago it was essential to eat meat, not anymore. We must evolve with the times, and adapt to the changing world.

[magicrev]

it make little difference buddy. i have no problems with vegetarians and vegans, i have several in my family for that matter, but what i can't stand are the preachy kind. Even if i decided not to buy meat from the shop anymore, someone else still will. Also, if the problem is that cows produce methane, then we need less cows surely, so even if we don't eat them, we will still have to kill them, except then we wont be making any use of them, so thats the dumbest argument ever.

[SawViking]

No, you don't kill cows for the sake of reducing the number, but you stop encouraging new offspring, by for instance separating males from females.

Even though there still are other people buying meat, it does a make difference to stop buying meat, because combined with the other people who don't buy meat, there is a decrease in meat demand.

[magicrev]

but by seperating males from females you're just playing with nature and not be kind to the animals at all. And there is nothing wrong with eating meat! You obviously like animals right? do you consider it bad when a lion eats a zebra? when a fish eats a worm? no? all meat eaters my friend. its called a food chain, its the way nature has worked for millions of years and it will continue like that until the end of the planet.

[SawViking]

We already played with nature by domesticating and breeding animals. A lion is a carnivore, they can't survive on a herbivorous diet. Humans can. Lions do not have the ability to reason like we do. Meat consumption is necessary, but it is not essential that humans partake in it.

It's about more than animal rights, its about the sustainability, health and integrity of the environment.

[magicrev]

in order to maintain a proper environment we have to maintain a stable ecosystem, or which we are an essential part. if we all stop eating meat then the ecosystem will change and all sorts of things will happen. its too much to go into here, but trust me, as a biology graduate i can tell you that if everyone stopped eating meat then there would be problems.

[SawViking]

I am in my 3rd year of enviro science/ecology, I know about the importance of ecosystem balance. Our meat consumption is not contributing to stable ecosystems. We are destroying forests, tundras, grasslands in order to raise cattle. We have domesticated animals, and taken them out of their natural ecosystem. Factory farming is NOT an ecosystem. Wildlife animals are also exploited- e.g. collapse of the cod fishery of Newfoundland, buffalo and black bears of North America. Is that stable?

[magicrev]

it is part of the ecosystem though, every living thing within an environment makes up part of the ecosystem and therefore plays some role. If anything is removed it may have positive aspects for some species but it will more than likely result in negative aspects for other species. So there is less cod, means less predators, meaning other species thrive, meaning the predators start eating them. You can't just remove things from the food chain and expect all to be well.

[SawViking]

Exactly- we can't just remove cod from the food chain and expect all to be well. Wild animals are part of food chains, domesticated factory farmed animals are not. Explain to me the negative repercussions of removing factory farmed cattle from the food chain (other than the ethical misdemeanors towards the animals themselves).

[piratebri]

magicrev, it's not part of the ecosystem. Cows that are bred soley for the production of consumption is not "nature's way". SawViking is saying breed less cows for the production of meat (something I personally believe will never happen), he is not saying that cows should be made extinct.

[kissfanbilly]

@SawViking ok well u guys keep eating plants and quit telling meat eaters what the fuck to eat

[SawViking]

@kissfanbilly

damn, i knew that would haunt me one day. The story is that a few years ago, a vegetarian used my username and had a heated debate about... well, everything; and my inbox filled up with replys and shit. it was a nightmare. Usually i dont give a shit about people answering me, but i cannot go a day with people thinking i cannot eat meat.

And i totally agree. the internet sensation maddox got it right about them vegetarians as well, the way they try to control what others eat.

[kissfanbilly]

@SawViking thanks for finally understanding my points

[SawViking]

@kissfanbilly

dude, you didnt convince me on anything...

[kissfanbilly]

@SawViking im not saying that i did

[yunarickupaine]

hey i no how to make food interesting by 1 plus...you can play with it well i do that i get bloody yelled at not fair....well this is really touching why should something die so we can have a snak.....

[Killrichengage]

Plant's can't feel, duh they don't have brains, that's like saying oh my toe nail or hair is alive it must be able to think! Also Mike's reason for not eating meat was because he doesn't like muscles and tendons and sh*t in his mouth not from a moral standpoint

[swatyBaIIs]

the animals u buy in the store are already dead, so does it matter if u eat em? i dont think so.

u dont have to be a butcher, but eat what ur body needs.

[ragamuffintube]

wtf man eat meat drink beer kill monsters!

[swatyBaIIs]

"what u mean u dont eat no meat!

okay.... i make lamb."

[KillswitchEngage654]

lol

[swatyBaIIs]

wait... so are u tellin me cchristians dont eat meat? thats wierd.

but anyway, nothin personal, i think vegitartians are dumb if they dont eat meat just cause they feel sorry for animals being klled for it. and our body needs meat anyway.

I love hamburgers.

[Tranenmeer]

It's proven that our body doens't need meat at all. There are so many vegetarians and vegans (even athlets) who are perfectly healthy.

[kissfanbilly]

@Tranenmeer ok well u do ure thing and dont tell meat eaters how to live there life

[Tranenmeer]

@kissfanbilly I'm not forcing meat eaters to become vegetarian, I'm just giving arguments why meat isn't necessary anymore

[kissfanbilly]

@Tranenmeer well many people tryed to change people mind and you know what there dead or hated. and meat is neccesary and dont argue with my point i have ures i have mine dont change mine i wont change ure as long as you dont tell others who disagree with you your points

[David15Gomez]

@kissfanbilly lol the fuck

[David15Gomez]

@Tranenmeer I bet you that any top athlete is not vegetarian, meat is needed for various reasons. It's unnatural for our bodies to not eat meat.

[Tranenmeer]

@David15Gomez google vegan/vegetarian top athletes and you'll find the answer

[ixrideXredx]

well said! "why should something have to die if I need a snack"

=)

[vidman7]

I love killswitch more than anything but im sorry, i love meat... and quite frankly your a jack-ass if you feel sorry for the animal your eating.

[ChillC]

very true..because if u think about it.. Veggies have nerves and feelings too

matter of fact plants feel it up to the point you eat them

[swatyBaIIs]

i heard the same thing- that plants can feel.

isnt it wierd? its kinda creepy. i also heard they can like react to u or sumthin.

again... creepy.

[edf2017]

vegetaria bacon? wtf. id eat a cow over a buncha shitty vegetables

[clipsryan]

Ahmen