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Originally Posted by Above
I don't eat anything with a shadow.
Nah, just kidding. I like the taste of meat and we're omnivores naturally, so I see no reason why it's murder. Is it murder for an animal to kill another animal for food?
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Ha ha! This reminds me of those funny lines from the song, "The Bad Touch":
"You and me, baby, we ain't nothin' but mammals,
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel."
The question I'd ask you, Above, is whether we humans *should* do what other animals do, especially since we are omnivores (which means we are able to eat meat but don't have to in order to survive) and have a biological and mental capacity to choose not to eat meat.
Your question makes me wonder whether you rationalize other actions as acceptable because animals do them. Infanticide? Eating the father of your babies? I assume you don't support *those* behaviors found in the animal kingdom.
If we use the argument that eating meat is ethically acceptable human behavior because other animals do it, doesn't this suggest that you should support all human behaviors modeled after non-human animal behaviors? What makes you pick and choose among animal behaviors to select those that you feel people should emulate?
Put bluntly (and not meaning to scare you): I am "naturally" a killer. I have the capacity to kill anyone, any being. Why shouldn't I?
Bloodhound Gang - "The Bad Touch"
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skaltezon
Thank you for recognizing that at least one person here (hip hop bunny hop) seems to deny abuses by the livestock industry, contrary to lucifer_sam's claim that "I think you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone here that disagrees" about "abuses by the hands of industrialized farming practices."
Thank you also for posting more information about some of the findings of undercover investigations of livestock industries. I've been looking through
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/dairy..._Complaint.pdf.
You might be interested to read about the coordinated and successful attempts of agricultural companies to get states to pass "anti-whistleblower" laws that make undercover farm videos illegal. The proposed law in Minnesota would make it illegal not just to produce an undercover video at a factory farm, but also to possess and distribute it:
Minnesota next up to pass law banning undercover farm videos | Grist