| You're right about the debate being uninteresting to those who consume flesh. I am sure I won't revisit this thread often, because there are other items of greater interest to me personally (like government tyranny).
I was a vegetarian in my early twenties for about three years. That was thirty years ago, but I lost weight down to a very thin, for me, 160 lbs. I don't think I was a whole lot healthier. I don't have any objection to killing animals for food. All creatures die and their bodies are used for food by the other life forms of this planet. Meat is not undigestible and the flavor is pleasing. I can afford it. I choose not to hunt because I don't really like killing and butchering animals, but if certain herbivore species are not culled, their populations grow out of control, due to the reduction of predators by the encroachment of humanity.
If the death is quick and painless and their domestication is benign, I have no problems with farm animals cultivated and harvested for food. Those who choose vegetarianism have my respect as individuals, but the philosophy of "animal rights" is a bit ridiculous in a world where "human rights" is still being challenged.
"Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams |