Childhood indoctrination

[Zen Badger]

One contributer in my case were the behavioral studies by Konrad Lorenz. I constantly tried to justify my vegetarianism and later veganism on scientific grounds. But constantly failed.

But you clearly are unable to justify your exploitation of animals either, so you have deferred to a default setting of continuing to exploit them. How are you deciding where to place the burden of proof (or justification)? Seemingly childhood indoctrination plays a role. Every time you buy food you actively make a choice: violence or non-violence. It takes some pretty powerful programming to make us actively choose violence.

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I'm interested in this concept of "animal rights" of which you speak.
If you could provide examples of animal rights occurring in the natural world I would be most appreciative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

That's nice, but I asked for examples in nature, not a Wikipedia article.