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| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Out of curiosity, why are you?
What gives you the right to waste precious resources to farm animals for you to eat, when billions of people in the world are starving? What gives you the right to destroy the environment even more? What gives you the right to chose what creatures can live and what can't?
That's completely ignoring the whole personal health reason. I don't think many people care, since people smoke and drink and do drugs anyways.
And the religious excuse is complete bullshit and laughable.
Just out of curiosity  |
I fall under the anthropological standpoint. We are predatory animals, we have evolved from predators and have adapted to have meat in our diets in order to thrive. All of my ancestors ate meat, and so it is a learned trait that seems to be beneficial in some ways (and not in some other ways) and therefore doesn't seem like a trait I should modify.
The amount of fruits and veggies that would need to be eaten to maintain the same levels of energy that an omnivore gets, is too much for most peoples lifestyles. I don't have the time to prepare a ton of fruits and veggies and eat 8 times a day to keep up with someone who eats meat.
With that being said, I don't eat as much meat as some people do and prefer to eat fruits over most other foods. I am also lactose intolerant which eliminates a chunk of animal by-products.
Although there are some (or perhaps many) negatives to eating meat, most of those negatives have been a human imposed problem (adding chemicals to shit when we shouldn't be etc.). Naturally, we would have gone out, clubbed a baby seal and ate its eyes (lol), but because we are overpopulated, and evolved we can't/don't do that anymore.
I also wonder, as I mentioned earlier, if there would be enough arable land for the entire world to become vegan? Would we be able to grow food fast enough and consistently? If not, the natural evolutionary/survival response is to radiate in eating habits, which would lead us right back to meat anyway.
I wont even begin to try and justify it from a moral standpoint... that is a futile argument in my opinion.
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