Enrico,
You might find it easy to dismiss the arguments of meat eaters that we have evolved to be able to eat meat on the basis that they would say that because they eat meat, but how do you explain why vegetarians and vegans (such as myself) also believe that we have evolved to be able to eat meat? The evidence posted by popeyespappy really is pretty conclusive.
When it comes to your "intuitional science", why is that so many people that meditate etc. come to such different conclusions about things? For example according the Hindus or Christian gnostics, they believe that intuition shows them that there is a creator god, Buddhists however believe there is no creator god. Without actual science how can you say which is true? The same thing can be said of meat eating. Meat eating is acceptable in Christianity, sort of wrong/OK in Buddhism and very bad in Jainism. The is no reliable way of comparing between different peoples intuition, and all it creates are untestable hypotheses (whether that be in the form of the existence of God, reincarnation, or some objectively true set of ethics).
Just because our society which generally deems meat eating acceptable, and also gives high regard to scientific principles, does not mean you should reject the latter just because you think meat eating is wrong.
You might find it easy to dismiss the arguments of meat eaters that we have evolved to be able to eat meat on the basis that they would say that because they eat meat, but how do you explain why vegetarians and vegans (such as myself) also believe that we have evolved to be able to eat meat? The evidence posted by popeyespappy really is pretty conclusive.
When it comes to your "intuitional science", why is that so many people that meditate etc. come to such different conclusions about things? For example according the Hindus or Christian gnostics, they believe that intuition shows them that there is a creator god, Buddhists however believe there is no creator god. Without actual science how can you say which is true? The same thing can be said of meat eating. Meat eating is acceptable in Christianity, sort of wrong/OK in Buddhism and very bad in Jainism. The is no reliable way of comparing between different peoples intuition, and all it creates are untestable hypotheses (whether that be in the form of the existence of God, reincarnation, or some objectively true set of ethics).
Just because our society which generally deems meat eating acceptable, and also gives high regard to scientific principles, does not mean you should reject the latter just because you think meat eating is wrong.
