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18-12-2012 10:27 PM |
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Originally Posted by Stu
(Post 5700776)
From a personal standpoint I think our higher consciousness and ability to make sense of the fact that we don't need to hunt and kill animals puts us outside the natural 'animals eat other animals' argument. As controversial as that may be. Animals instinctively hunt other animals out of necessity for survival and self preservation. We are a bit beyond that. We eat meat out of aesthetic preference for it's taste and texture. That's not the same.
Animals do a lot of things we don't do. Largely because we don't have to because of having developed alternate methods.
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One of the major parts of our evolution was when we started to cook and eat meat. It played a massive part in the development and growth of our brains. It is ingrained in us over hundreds of thousands of years.
I do admire anyone that could be vegetarian, but I see no issue with eating meat and thinking hunting for sport is abhorrent. Animals eat what they eat, because they have evolved to eat those things, just like us.
Look at chimps today - they can live without eating meat, but they still kill and eat meat. |
