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Quote by: BionicArmofDeth Take into consideration of how a wolf would eat us if it was starving.

Your analogy is flawed because in it the wolf is starving, we are not starving.

We are made with the things we eat. Perhaps we do this in order to take advantage of the fact that the cow has already taken care of digesting grass and things for us and turned them into a complex protein or whatever.

You mean, like the cow is doing us a favor, because they are so happy we cause them to suffer at various stages in our exploitation of them?

Modern man does not need any animal to predigest or produce things for us in order for us to live a healthy lifestyle. Can you show us any nutritionist`s comments or peer reviewed research published in any well respected scientific journal to back up such an assertion?

You are parroting old thoughts on the issue without having researched the topic adequately. You are a good example of what I meant when I posted a few posts above that many people are ignorant (said academically -- not pajoratively) about modern man and his choices for diet.

If all we did as a species was to eat vegetables, then it would turn us into something different.

You mean perhaps a species that doesn`t live in a state of constantly assaulting the ecological systems of the world, or one that doesn`t create make believe beings which give us a "soul" and then causes us to kill for them, or one that didn`t come up with the idea of slavery, or perhaps not prone to so much violence against itself, or a species that doesn`t create monsters in the likes of Hitler, Idi Amin, Stalin, etc...?

Maybe "something different" would not be such a bad thing -- looking at the propensity of our species and the history of the world. With the historical backdrop of man, why do you think our species has been on the right track?

I mean think about it, it's defintely harder to catch a wild animal in the first place so only those species which are designed to be carnivores get this privilige of eating this complex organism which could be a cow or a chicken.

Yes, indeed, BAOD, "think about it." The ability to do something, in our case, the ability to condemn animals to a horrific existence for our pleasure, in no way justifies it. It only highlights the injustice of "might makes right." Is that the prejudicial reasoning you base your argument on?