Originally Posted by
Jozanny
Oh come on. Life, in order to be sustaining, is a process of consumption, and primates eat meat, not all of them, but it is in the species. One can take issue with the morality of industrialized farming of herd animals, like cattle and horses and pigs, and I have an intrinsic distaste for blood sport, though I accept hunters who hunt to put food on the table, but plants have a right to life as well, if one is going to take it that far, but if the grass isn't cropped, the herds starve, and if the herds aren't stalked, the health of the herd suffers. What humans do badly is to compete unfairly, and slaughter our high end competitors and herds alike in too vast a quantity, and the irony of that will be we're setting the stage for our own vast die off, because we eliminate diversity. I do not think we can ultimately survive on corn force fed to cattle, as is done in the US, which has an epidemic of heart disease due to it.
Respect for life is one thing, but accepting that life has to die for life that needs to eat is just as valid. I don't like it when my cats kill mice, but as carnivores that is what they do, and I dispose of said remains, however unpleasant, but if someone killed my cats I'd probably do my damnest to commit murder in return--it is killing in malice that humans have to answer for.
Well, lions kill in malice, but that is balanced biological competition, and we won that game before recorded history, and should have the decency to keep our aggression in check. This doesn't mean an all green diet is right for our design type.