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Quote by: strongheartswin  Are you posting to discuss/debate the issue, or just to be snide? |
LOL. I was born with canine teeth for ripping flesh and molars for grinding vegetables and grains. Like many other large mammals, humans are omnivores. We need a mix of nutrients which are most easily met through eating both meats and vegetables.
If you want to pretend that you are a cow that is up to you. I find no compelling nutritional nor moral argument for vegetarianism. Is a wolf immoral when it eats only meat? Is a sheep enlighted for eating grains? We act according to our nature. There is nothing wrong with that. Trying to be what we are not seems silly to me.
You say "if we ...do not want to be treated like animals, then why should we act like them?" Then what are we, if not animals? And what is wrong with being what we are? I apply my morality to dealings with my fellow humans. I am opposed to unnecessary cruelty to animals which does not mean that I am opposed to eating animals for food. I am also wearing leather shoes and a leather belt and I see no moral wrong in doing so.
So again, if you only want to eat veggies, that is your choice. Don't expect me to be impressed by your enlightenment or sense of higher moral virtue.