How humans are not physically created to eat meat

[..be..]

I idea that we mistreat the animals we use as food as the reason not to eat meat does not wash, IMHO. What about the way we treat the plants we use as food? Unnatural growing conditions, unnatural food, unnatural pest control etc. How do you think the corn stalk feels we she sees the combine coming down the row to steal her young? Oh, you don't think the corn has feelings? Then how do you know the cow, pig, chicken does? And yes, the corn plant lives it's life for one and only one reason, to produce her young and the next generation. And what do we do? We eat her young. Same goes for wheat, oats etc etc etc. If you're going to give human feelings to living things you can't discriminate and say animals have them and plants don't.

 

And what about pets? Are your cats, dogs fish etc living their lives in keeping with nature? Or, are they being manipulated to live their lives to meet the needs and desires of their human keepers? So it's OK to manipulate the life of a cat to please our needs but not OK to manipulate the life of a cow.

 

When you try to discriminate you create problems that are not real.

[Wayfarer64]

I idea that we mistreat the animals we use as food as the reason not to eat meat does not wash, IMHO. What about the way we treat the plants we use as food? Unnatural growing conditions, unnatural food, unnatural pest control etc. How do you think the corn stalk feels we she sees the combine coming down the row to steal her young? Oh, you don't think the corn has feelings? Then how do you know the cow, pig, chicken does? And yes, the corn plant lives it's life for one and only one reason, to produce her young and the next generation. And what do we do? We eat her young. Same goes for wheat, oats etc etc etc. If you're going to give human feelings to living things you can't discriminate and say animals have them and plants don't.

 

And what about pets? Are your cats, dogs fish etc living their lives in keeping with nature? Or, are they being manipulated to live their lives to meet the needs and desires of their human keepers? So it's OK to manipulate the life of a cat to please our needs but not OK to manipulate the life of a cow.

 

When you try to discriminate you create problems that are not real.

 

Sometimes I felt as if my dog trained me - Having him as my almost constant - ( he hated to be left behind!)-companion, certainly changed my life style (happily too I must say)

[shen]

a wise man once said eat that what has the spirit of life and spirit of life will enter

eat that what has the spirit of death and the spirit of death will enter