(May 20, 2014 at 9:55 am)Riketto Wrote: True, but you also got to consider that for those who believe
in reincarnation like me everything boil down to the fact that
you in the next life carry on with the same attitudes that you
had in the previous life so if you were eating meat before you
will be born in a similar culture and the opposite is true if you
were a veg. with ways in between.
You can believe in reincarnation if you want to but why is it necessary to believe that humans aren't omnivores in order to be concerned with the ethics of factory farming etc.?
There are vegetarians and vegans who accept the fact that humans are omnivores. Their reasons for promoting their diets are ethical considerations for how food animals are treated, the health risks from factory farmed meat and environmental issues such as how many resources are needed to produce a pound of meat compared to a pound of vegetables. They also point out that Vitamin B12 doesn't come from plant foods so vegans have to take a supplement. This advice also turned up on that Jain website article I quoted from in an earlier post.
Who are people most likely to listen to? The vegetarians and vegans who use science when writing about their lifestyle choice or the ones who insist that humans can't digest meat so it rots away in the colon for days on end?
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?