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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
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. And even if you consider it cruel to eat other animals, I can live with it. I don't support battery farming, of course, or other forms of industrialized cruelty in meat production.
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?
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I say it's natural because it's part of our biological needs. Sure you can survive as a vegetarian but it adds an unnecessary amount of focus. It's easier and more convenient to get your protein fix from meat.
And you're quite right that you're naturally a killer. We are murderers as a race. The only species that kills one another for personal gain or pleasure are humans.