Slavery and eating animals

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Eating is required to live, and humans require protein.

Actually, we do not require protein in our diet. The body builds protein from amino acids. Some of the amino acids can be made from others. There are 12 amino acids which cannot be built by the body. These are called essential amino acids. As long as you eat these, you will never have a protein problem. You would probably have to go out of your way to NOT get the 12 essential amino acids in your diet.

A cow gets its protein the same way, of course.

Another tidbit is that the human body cannot directly make use of protein from another animal. Protein from meat is disassembled into its component amino acids and then reassembled into human protein - an energy-intensive, inefficient process.