Does no one realize that the world is not animals moving against a green background? Plants are alive just the same as animals. The perform all the same functions and everything! Plants have DNA too. By vegan logic we should not eat plants either...or fungi or bacteria...or they are hypocrites! What makes animals so special? No one objects when the mighty lioness brings down a gazelle. No one says we must stop this lion pride and make them vegetarian...
I see it as a point on a scale. I posted a poll once about what the most intelligent thing you'd eat is. i.e. plants, fish, mammals, primates. Vegans and vegetarians aren't somehow holy; they're just occupying a different point on the scale.
As for lionesses, that's another point on a scale. They neither have the intelligence to realise the sanctity of life, nor the capability to really exist without eating meat. They eat meat out of necessity, humans eat it out of choice.
I always try to put myself in the position of that which I'm concerned about. If reptiles had primacy and the world were run by super-intelligent crocodiles who farmed humans and slaughtered them for human-burgers, do I wish more of them would become vegetarian? Of course. Who wants to see family and friends taken for food and it be so commonplace that no-one really cares about their death?
Is it normal to be completely annoyed of vegans and PETA?
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Does no one realize that the world is not animals moving against a green background? Plants are alive just the same as animals. The perform all the same functions and everything! Plants have DNA too. By vegan logic we should not eat plants either...or fungi or bacteria...or they are hypocrites! What makes animals so special? No one objects when the mighty lioness brings down a gazelle. No one says we must stop this lion pride and make them vegetarian...
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I see it as a point on a scale. I posted a poll once about what the most intelligent thing you'd eat is. i.e. plants, fish, mammals, primates. Vegans and vegetarians aren't somehow holy; they're just occupying a different point on the scale.
As for lionesses, that's another point on a scale. They neither have the intelligence to realise the sanctity of life, nor the capability to really exist without eating meat. They eat meat out of necessity, humans eat it out of choice.
I always try to put myself in the position of that which I'm concerned about. If reptiles had primacy and the world were run by super-intelligent crocodiles who farmed humans and slaughtered them for human-burgers, do I wish more of them would become vegetarian? Of course. Who wants to see family and friends taken for food and it be so commonplace that no-one really cares about their death?