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Omnivore. This is the way it is and will be. Humans have survived due to this feature. We are not ruminants. We don't have multiple stomachs. Your emotions a

Omnivore. This is the way it is and will be. Humans have survived due to this feature. We are not ruminants. We don't have multiple stomachs. Your emotions are the deciding factor in your position. I implore you to look at the animal kingdom with honesty and not a disney-washed, Blue Planet version for children. Nature is harsh and awful. Animals often die by incredibly vicious means from predators. Gored and crushed in their jaws. We are humane to a fault. Now people are so disconnected from the reality of nature, they expect to impose restrictions based on their emotions. I find this argumemt to be lacking substance. The developed world you highlight is dependent on petrochemicals. Everything you have and use. Leather is one of the very few durable goods that is not.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
Yes, animals often die by predators who have no alternative. This is the way of nature. But humans DO have alternatives. We absolutely do not need to lock up animals in cages and kill them with machines. We don't need to use them at all. Sure, you can say compassion is an emotion. But can you really even be a part of society without compassion? To say we should be willing to enslave and kill animals because we should set our compassion aside... why? Why do you argue for a world without compassion? Yes nature is brutal. And yet we have child seats for cars because we don't expect to expose our children to random brutality. What about a pig or a cow makes you feel it deserves brutality when we will work so hard to shield one another from the same? We don't live in the jungle. That is not the point of society. We do care for one another, and compassion drives many aspects of our society. I see no reason it should not play in to what we eat. > We are not ruminants. We don't have multiple stomachs. This doesn't have anything to do with veganism. Vegans don't eat grass from the ground. We don't need multiple stomachs. This is a straw man.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago

Yes, animals often die by predators who have no alternative. This is the way of nature. But humans DO have alternatives. We absolutely do not need to lock up animals in cages and kill them with machines. We don't need to use them at all. Sure, you can say compassion is an emotion. But can you really even be a part of society without compassion? To say we should be willing to enslave and kill animals because we should set our compassion aside... why? Why do you argue for a world without compassion? Yes nature is brutal. And yet we have child seats for cars because we don't expect to expose our children to random brutality. What about a pig or a cow makes you feel it deserves brutality when we will work so hard to shield one another from the same? We don't live in the jungle. That is not the point of society. We do care for one another, and compassion drives many aspects of our society. I see no reason it should not play in to what we eat. > We are not ruminants. We don't have multiple stomachs. This doesn't have anything to do with veganism. Vegans don't eat grass from the ground. We don't need multiple stomachs. This is a straw man.