Dr.Grass on 16 March 2011
| Kantor said: Since we've moved on to talking about meat eating, the reasons I eat meat:
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- It tastes delicious. Call me a savage, I don't care.
Yes, that's an answer I will accept.
- It's high in protein and iron, and the latter especially is hard to find in vegetarian food
This on the other hand is nonsense.
- It can often be troublesome to find tasty vegetarian food (not that none exists).
Definitely true. Its not easy, but that's changing in some places in the west and is largely culturaly dependent.
- Eating vegetarian food is still killing living organisms, and everyone seems fine with that.
Human beings should be able to reason better than this.
- We have worked our way to the top of the food chain by evolution, and we have the biological right to do what we like with our position.
We have the ability to live without enforcing our 'biological' right. Are we meant to just take what we want? Surely a human society can be above such a degraded state of living?
- Animals have no real conscious thought or fear of death.
And pain? And other fears? I suggest you watch 'The Cove', and see the trainer of the famous flipper dolphin describe how she committed suicide due to depression. Ever lived closely with animals? I've lived with cows before. Trust me, they are much closer to humans than any dog could ever be. And we western people treasure our dear Lassy's and Beethoven's don't we? Here I can't disprove you, but there is no part of me that doesn't believe that you are wrong.
- If there's a lovely plate of roast beef lying on a large plate, not taking that beef is not going to bring the cow back to life. The same is true for raw pork fillet lying in the kitchen of a restaurant.
You are thinking with your tongue. As long as we agree on that then I accept what you are saying.
