Conner,
Thanks for piping in. Please give me your sources. Ensure they aren't biased, meaning, give me something not funded by the meat industries. Because according to the American Medical Journal, The Lancet, the Centers of Disease Control, National Instititute of health, National Diabetic Association, The American Cancer Instititute, American Heart Association, and many more I would be happy to name for you, Meat it not healthy for you. And don't bother saying "my physican said so" cause they are required I believe 3 hours of nutrition class in the USA. Read set..............name it.
Veronica:
Thanks for bringing up the bible. We were given dominion over the animals. But the word dominion in hebrew (what the old testiment was written in) means to "care for and watch over", when translated to english, our meaning of dominion was much different. Remember that he also gave us dominion of the elderly and the children and the poor of heart. And when Jesus sat on that hill he said "Blessed are the merciful, for only you shall be shown mercy." And when we get attacked soon for what we just wrote, here's another to remember, "Blessed are those who are persecuted in my name".
Jan asked: What animals are vegan?
We're talking about natural lifestyles. Rabbits don't have access to bacon in nature. A deer is vegan by nature. That doesn't mean that a bug isn't on the grass. They lack the ability to search their blade of grass before chewing it. Just because a knat flew in my mouth last summer doesn't make me any less of a vegan. Except for tropical bird species I believe most birds eat worms and other insects. They are not vegan. That doesn't mean you can't get your bird to eat chucks of bacon. It means that he shouldn't. What we can consume and what we should consume are very different things.
The day a human can chase down on foot, jump on, then severe the windpipe and drag down a zebra bare handed, is the day I will say with humility that we humans should kill like animals do. Simply put, we can't. Not only are we entirely too slow to catch anything but grubs and bugs, we don't have the nails to grab the skin, the strength to knock down, the nails to puncture, the mouth to open wide enough to do damage and the teeth to tear out a trachea. And well, most of us don't have the appetite to eat it raw.
Carnivores must kill or they die. It isn't a conscious decision made by a lioness in the morning to go torture an impala for amusement. The choice is that if she doesn't kill the impala, she will die. When a human kills an animal for food it is for appetite not necessity, if a human hunts and kills an animal it for amusement and if he kicks his dog to death it is cowardice and cruelty.
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