> Meat is a rich source of protein and energy. We don't need any more justification than that to want to eat other animals. Jonathan Swift argued the same in A

> Meat is a rich source of protein and energy. We don't need any more justification than that to want to eat other animals. Jonathan Swift argued the same in A Modest Proposal[1]: > I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. Swift also argued that eating the babies of the poor also helps prevent famine and breaks the cycle of poverty. Clearly this has more advantages than eating chickens or cows! > At the end of the day- many animals eat other animals' meat. Why is it any different for humans to do the same? Animals also rape each other, kill each other over mates and territory, and occasionally commit cannibalism. By your logic, why shouldn’t humans do the same? > Even a chicken is large enough to feed two people. Larger animals can feed a family for several days. Depends on the chicken. Almost all male chicks are killed within 3 days of hatching, usually by tossing them into a shredder.[2] I doubt one of them is very filling. 1. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling