It is worth remembering that plants are also living things that we take away from the environment they like and then eat then. Just because they don’t have a face it is fine to ruin there lives. Also most plants we eat have been modified over the years to meet what we want to see on the shops shelves. What’s to say the plants we eat are not suffering pain and just can’t show it to us.
I have lived and worked in countries where they have vegetarian diets and I have enjoyed the food I eat at least one veggie meal a week and enjoy it But I feel meat gives me things I can’t get from a veggie diet after all there are certain vitamins minerals and amino acids that are only found in animal sources. So I eat meat as part of a varied and balanced diet it is not a mental condition stopping me as you are trying to suggest. I just think it is the best way to eat. I respect anyone’s choose not to eat meat but not claim that they have a mental issue with food it is each to there own.
Because the selection process takes a very long time. In another 100k years we will have a population that is adapted to the shit we produce now.
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We can adapt and change much quicker than this in reality. Already people have got longer thumbs from the use of mobile phones etc this has taken a very short amount of time to start happening. The gut can adapt to different foods incredibly quickly
Absolutely not from evolution.
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Might be sooner than that.
I don’t have a source, but I heard recently that lactose tolerance is a relatively recent change. Just 10,000 years ago there was a genetic mutation in Eastern Europe which allowed humans to tolerate cow milk.
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It’s how evolution works the body has adapted to cope with it’s souroundings that is why son children are now born with longer thumbs than they were 30 years ago. It is the definition of evolving.
Exactly we can evolve incredibly quickly if we need too.
So breakfast this morning is sausage and bacon from hand reared pigs with eggs from hand reared free range chickens and homemade bread made with local ingredients. Non of the produce has travelled more than a mile to be at my table and is sorced from small local farmers
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The lack of a nervous system, brain and pain receptors are three things that say plants don’t suffer pain.
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You may feel that. The science would suggest that it is not true.
Hey do respond to stimuli though using electrical pulses this could assimilate pain we don’t know as we can’t ask them and they have no way of showing or telling us.
And odd choice of words. Cutting the life of an animal that one assumes would really rather not die very short is, I would suggest, not at all humane or respectful.
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Difficult this… Should we respect the views of people who think, for example, it’s okay to murder or harm other people?
Surely there comes a time when views must change. The science is very clear now that animal agriculture is causing huge environmental damage. Isn’t that enough reason to justify the fact that eating meat or not shouldn’t be a matter of personal choice?
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An animal we bread solely for meat or is hunted to stop the numbers getting past manageable or sustainable. It is done very quickly with as little fuss as is possible I can invite you to watch one day to prove the humanity of it.
I don’t agree with murder but I do believe that most murdered do it for what they feel is good reason weather that is mental problems or a mixed up believe that it’s right they still believe it.
That’s not to say it’s right though.
Thanks for the invite but you can’t prove the humanity of it; it isn’t humane.
I once ate and enjoyed lots of meat. I have experience of rearing animals for meat. I too once believed eating locally produced animals on a small scale was a good thing. I no longer do. The science suggests environmentally it is very bad. The science also suggests that for human health, eating animals and animal products is very bad. The evidence (through numerous films, for example) suggests that animal agriculture is hugely cruel and barbaric.
I’d encourage you to keep an open mind, to read, watch and try to find out more about a meatless diet; the benefits for the environment, for you - and for the animals.
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Do you think that we should respect a murder’s view that it is right for them to murder?
Without wishing to appear rude, this really is a very daft thing to try to argue.
Of course it’s also the case that it takes up to 16kg of plants to ‘create’ just 1 kg of meat.
If you think about then… meat eaters are indirectly ‘killing’ far more plants than vegans and vegetarians.
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Same here. Muesli, milk and a banana. All locally sourced from the Co-Op up the road. 
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