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Veganism and vegetarianism are just different points on a sliding scale of how willing we are to take life from something with intelligence. Where do you stand?
| Nothing that has ever been alive. | 4 | |
| Plants. | 21 | |
| Fish. | 20 | |
| Animals (excluding mammals). | 16 | |
| Mammals. | 74 | |
| Primates. | 11 | |
| Humans. | 40 | |
| Aliens of higher intelligence than us. | 47 |
The same way you'd live off anything else. I don't mean rocks. I mean things that can be synthesised. Many sugars can be produced by chemical reaction. They don't need to have grown as sugar beet.
Jamustheignoramus: What is edible that hasn't already been alive? plants, animals, mushrooms...
Babies, it's population control and food for the masses. God bless the Queen.
Maybe I'm psychho but I see it like this: if I was about to die from starvation, I wouldn't mind eating a human. Or an alien, but I think they're harder to get for dinner.
I wonder what aliens would taste like? haha Also, if they are smarter than us, it is highly unlikely they would let us eat them.
All herbivores and all carnivores have similar body structures; humans' body structures are in between those two-clearly, we are meant to be omnivores. Also, many peoples in extreme living conditions rely on meat for food (is this wrong?)
...This rules out plants
Supposed intelligence is no way to judge what we can and can't eat- First of all, who are we to say which animals are smart and which aren'tt?
All creatures on this earth play a part in nature-we are all equal. What is really important is how you treat the animals that you use for food. It is inhuman and unnatural to keep animals locked up without much space-they have to live freely. Also, we have to respect our food-do not waste it.
Following these guidelines, i chose mammals. Cannibalism is wrong and primates are too similar to us
My asshole neighbor Steve. Or should I say ex-neighbor. Mu ha ha ha ha ha.... *smacks lips*
In china theres this meal its the fanciest meal there. They screw a monkey's head to a table and pop it open and eat its brain whie its still alive -.-
Oh wow when you put it on a scale like that I'm amazed how far up it humans will readily eat to! I mean, in some cultures monkeys are a delicacy right? That is like pretty much at the top...discounting those rare few of us that are cannibals, we'll pretty much eat anything that isn't ourselves.
No junk food... That's all I can say. But I'll never stop eating a bunch of unhealthy things.
Anything except humans, unless you're starving to death, in which case you do whatever you have to.
I could tell that the OP was dappled, I saw a dappled post to an IIN question recently phrased a bit like this. I now feel like a dappled fanboy.
Plants, btw.
At first I was gonna put non mammal animals, then mammals, then primates, but if I was desperate, I'd eat ANYTHING regardless of it's intelligence relative to mine. Look out aliens.....I'm fucking starving!!!
What about strawberry leaves? They're made with chlorophyll and glucose, is it appropriate to eat? Or those so-called 'poisonous berries', which are delicious, reddish, and don't make you sick, and they have a stone and grows in Elizabeth in South Australia, which I have named the blaberry. It's a rare fruit, me and my brother used to eat them all the time.
Okay, so what about insects? I mean, idk if they're counted as being intelligent, but like, have complex social structures etc?
Missing option: Intelligence /= Edibility/Deliciousness.
Don't eat human, you'll get shaky hands and probably arrested.
Don't be afraid to eat whatever is nearest if the alternative is starvation.
Or really, really bad boredom.
I just think all animals except for humans tbh. I mean, I love cats and think they are cute, but I understand why some people eat them for example.