Very nice, Sydney. A good topic for discussion. However, I couldn't help thinking this might offend people's philosophy on meat-eating, which is just as bad as offending a person's religion. By all means, make us question our ways of life, but
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When you ask someone why they eat meat, they occasionally respond with "Because it tastes good." But ofen they become agressive and start spouting "facts" about humans being omnivorous, or needing protein from meat, or iron, or some other idea that they really have very little understanding of.
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just sounds a bit...well, derogatory.
Please don't misunderstand, although I've probably made it very easy for you to do so - I am seriously considering going vegetarian, as you may already know. I haven't yet decided that eating meat is wrong. My morals don't have much of a say on the subject, except I don't eat lizards, amphibeons or invertibrates.
I agree that it's possible to leave an equally healthy existance without the consumption of meat. I know for a fact that a human can live on fruit alone. But then you haven't made a similar subject about junk food, which is definitely a worse consumable.
I also agree that the current meat/animal slaughter industry is disgraceful. However, that alone isn't really sufficient reason to go vegetarian. If the killing of livestock was done humanely, I think not so many people would jump from a full diet to a vegetarian one. The cruelty of some people/businesses is no reason to consider eating animals ethically wrong.
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But they choose to destroy lives to satisfy their hunger, just because to them, animals taste a little better.
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I wouldn't take it out on them so. After all, humans have been omnivores for thousands of years, and biologically we still are. Nutritional facts aside, why should Mr Random, here, be forced to stop eating meat? Other omnivores and carnivores aren't considered to be immoral in their meat-eating, humans shouldn't be either. If you're going to suggest these creatures don't have a conscience to speak of, that doesn't really address the problem, because it's not these species that have the problem, it's us.
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Any meat eater, I challenge you to kill your food before you consume it. Could you do it? Could you look into the big, soulful brown eyes of a cow and slit its throat?
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No, I couldn't do that. Doesn't sersuade me to give up eating meat, though. Know why? Because I may eat meat, but I'm not a killer. I don't harm any living thing if I can help it. I find doing so ethically wrong. If other people don't find it ethically wrong, then that's fine by me. I shouldn't have to interfere with their morals, because I'm not ever going to share their soul. Nicking things from school doesn't put a scar on my karma because I don't think it's wrong. Equally, a great wadge of the population aren't spiritually affected by meat-eating because their morals don't consider it to be wrong. And isn't changing somebody's morals to match your own regarded as being 'wrong'?
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Few humans will accomplish something that will change the world. Perhaps you will pump out a few babies, and they will be your life's greatest acheivements. It's nothing more than what any other in the animal kingdom can accomplish.
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You mean there are animals besides humans that have been as productive to their own species as Mozart, Einstein and Pasteur?