It's not really a question of whether or not we have the right to eat other creatures but more of a question of who's gonna stop me?
What gives us the right to eat other creatures?
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I'm more curious as to why certain animals (in the US) are decidedly meat and others like dogs and cats aren't. Is it because they just don't yield enough meat to even bother or because they're too cute and cuddly.
You can survive on meat alone, but you can't survive on vegetables alone.
I HATE salad, and most other vegetables. They taste like cardboard.
Sure, I may be a tad overweight and can't run that far, but I would rather die 10 years earlier than I otherwise would knowing that I have enjoyed life and not been on a life long diet.
Actually, I wouldn't rather die 10 years ealier, but if I had the choice, I would probably go for that ..
I HATE salad, and most other vegetables. They taste like cardboard.
Sure, I may be a tad overweight and can't run that far, but I would rather die 10 years earlier than I otherwise would knowing that I have enjoyed life and not been on a life long diet.
Actually, I wouldn't rather die 10 years ealier, but if I had the choice, I would probably go for that ..
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Don't ask me. I drink the blood of unborn babies.
Looking at the question fairly literally, I would have to answer like this:
WE, humans, give OURSELVES the "right" to eat other creatures. The very concept of "rights" appears to only come from the human mind. I've yet to hear a chimp speak about it or see any gorilla's writings about the subject. And I don't mean that in a way like "humans are the best!!" But we do seem to have some cognitive and moral functions that far exceed even our closest evolutionary competitors.
I think the question needs to be: Is our right to eat animals always well-justified? Should we give ourselves the right to treat animals as having only one purpose and one meaning - something for us to consume? Should our rights be tempered by humanity and restraint in how we treat, raise and consume certain animals for our benefit? In light of emerging environmental issues, should we limit our rights as to which animals we can consume and in what quantities?
For the record, I do eat meat (although a lot less than I used to), but I have a lot of reservations, and I think vegetarians and vegans do have several very compelling arguments. I don't always agree with the self-righteousness of their tactics (just as I don't agree with the boneheaded self-righteousness and juvenile mindset of some meat-eaters, who seem to eat meat at least as much to piss off vegetarians as anything else - I feel no alliance with them whatsoever; they remind me of high school in the worst way)...
WE, humans, give OURSELVES the "right" to eat other creatures. The very concept of "rights" appears to only come from the human mind. I've yet to hear a chimp speak about it or see any gorilla's writings about the subject. And I don't mean that in a way like "humans are the best!!" But we do seem to have some cognitive and moral functions that far exceed even our closest evolutionary competitors.
I think the question needs to be: Is our right to eat animals always well-justified? Should we give ourselves the right to treat animals as having only one purpose and one meaning - something for us to consume? Should our rights be tempered by humanity and restraint in how we treat, raise and consume certain animals for our benefit? In light of emerging environmental issues, should we limit our rights as to which animals we can consume and in what quantities?
For the record, I do eat meat (although a lot less than I used to), but I have a lot of reservations, and I think vegetarians and vegans do have several very compelling arguments. I don't always agree with the self-righteousness of their tactics (just as I don't agree with the boneheaded self-righteousness and juvenile mindset of some meat-eaters, who seem to eat meat at least as much to piss off vegetarians as anything else - I feel no alliance with them whatsoever; they remind me of high school in the worst way)...
There are a lot of people, even people that I know personally, that have never eaten meat in thier life. So that just doesn't make any sense.
vegetables contain a lot more varieties of complex vitamins than meats. If that's what you want to do (eat only meat and no veggies), that's up to you, but I wouldn't reccomend it. There's a difference between being alive aka. surviving, and being nutritionally healthy.
well, you can't speak chimp. If you could, I have a feeling that he'd be telling you not to eat him.
Even though I'm busting your balls, in all seriousness I respect that you ask those questions and think rationally about things, instead of just accepting convenient social conventions.
L3ggy
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What gives any animal the right to eat another animal? Predatorial superiority.
In our case opposable thumbs and large bore rifles comes in handy as well.
In our case opposable thumbs and large bore rifles comes in handy as well.
Legzman
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I can't believe I missed this all this time. It's simple really we are mammals. As such, most of us are carnivores. So there is nothing at all wrong with it, since we ourselves are part of the food chain!
Most of the time we're at the top but every so often we slip down a notch or 2 and become food. We all know that sharks have eaten people in the past though this is rare. There are also places in Indonesia where tigers still eat people!
And yet them damn hippies stuff them in their pipes and hookahs and such!
It's not about rights, as rights are a human construct and have no place in nature. It's about biology. Humans have fangs and incisors, designed for ripping and tearing meat, and eyes in the front of our heads like all predatory animals. What gives a lion the right to eat a zebra? Or a whale the right to eat plankton? Stupid question. I'm going to make a roast beef, ham, turkey, and bald eagle sandwich.
All the blood makes meat very hard to smoke in a pipe. However, if you chop meat into fine grain pieces it can be sorted. At least that been my experience.
A bunch of my cousins on one side are vegetarians. I don't really have a problem with it, but there is no way I could live without cheese. Cheese is a necessity for me. 
Going back to the original question, as a semi-practicing Christian. The right to use animals is given to me in the Bible, Genesis Chapter 9 Verse 3.
"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."
God says it is all right and that is good enough for me. Now for that Bacon Double Cheeseburger.
The right to use animals is given to me in the Bible, Genesis Chapter 9 Verse 3."Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."
God says it is all right and that is good enough for me. Now for that Bacon Double Cheeseburger.
I wonder just what "green herb" God was talking about there.....
Just shows how you can use the Bible to defend or contradict just about any theory or idea!
The right? I don't know. But the capability to eat other creatures, well, that comes in the form of not only our slicing and tearing teeth, our body's ability to digest the proteins in meat, and our innate desire to eat them, but also:
Opposable thumbs, Weatherby rifles and shotguns, electric skillets, mashed potatoes, and my collection of steak knives.
I mean, what the hell good would mashed potatoes be if there was no 'creatures' to eat with them? Duh.....
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Opposable thumbs, Weatherby rifles and shotguns, electric skillets, mashed potatoes, and my collection of steak knives.
I mean, what the hell good would mashed potatoes be if there was no 'creatures' to eat with them? Duh.....
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