Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?

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Perhaps, but not by the metrics set forth so far in this thread. A line was drawn about sentience,

Not by the Jains,who are extreme vegans,refusing to eat not only dairy produce,but anything which grows below ground; Eg; spuds, onions,garlic,ginger,sweet potato---


I'm put in mind of a section in 'Gulliver's Travel's' (unedited version) Gulliver runs into an order of monks who eat nothing but cabbages which have died of natural causes. Would it be morally acceptable to eat meat if one ate only road kill, domestic pets,horses and zoo animals which had been euthanised to save them suffering?

Not real happy to eat pigs, but not un-happy enough to stop eating them.


Will not usually eat horse because of the taste and aesthetics, or kangaroo for aesthetics,but have eaten and enjoyed dog,once,in China. I did not know at the time, having quickly learned not to ask about was eating unless I REALLY wanted to know,which I did not.