(May 23, 2014 at 10:42 am)bladevalant546 Wrote: I am late to this article, however putting aside the ethical treatment of animals in farms (which I agree with. Also, the over use of anitbiotics and running the risk of superbugs. Eating meat is not different than eating plants.
When you eat a plant, something else died to nurture that plant, also the plant dies for you when you either cook it or eat it (fruits aside). The point is simple, laws of nature simply states that for new things to be created or maintain a lot of times, something else has to be destroyed. Stars die to make new elements and solarsystems, animals die to feed plants when they decompose. Animals die to feed other animals, plants die to feed other animals. It is an inescapable fact that it is an unavoidable system, something will perish for you to persist and exist.
I do not condone the environmental destruction of animals, nor technological process to eliminate the need to biological death. However, right now it is the way it. Fight the unethical treatment of animals that is a good fight. However, stating eating meat is bad or what ever subjective philosophy is not only impossible to depend objectively. There is not a lot of science to say herbivore diet is superior to omnivores diet. I say don't like meat, then do not eat it. Let me keep eating my steaks, fish, and other animal proteins my body needs. Also, get into the field of biology and help them move forward with lab grown meat if you feel this convicted.
Welcome to the thread.
Let me say an old saying in Latin first of all.
MORS TUA VITA MEA ......which means.....YOUR DEATH IS MY LIFE.
True indeed.
Not only when we eat meat but even when we eat a carrot or any vegetable we destroy a life.
Your understanding of how the system works however is lacking.
It is all about consciousness.
While an animal has got an high degree of consciousness a vegetable
has only got a low degree of consciousness.
What this means?
Again i come down with one more saying...........NO BRAIN NO PAIN.
In other words you got to understand how the scale of consciousness
works.
When an animal is killed he feel million time more pain than a carrot
so this level of pain reach the top of the scale as far consciousness
is concern and therefore it become tamasik (the opposite of sentient (good)).
On the other end a carrot can not pass us this high level of cruelty.
If you eat a fruit then the level of cruelty is nil as you are not destroying any life.
Anyway good luck with your analysis.
