NothingIsNot said:
I eat meat, I drink milk, I love cheese and any other dairy product for that matter. Just so you know, this thread is against myself too! :areyoucra
It is clear that we shouldn't eat other animals, and we shouldn't raise livestock for their milk either. First of all, our teeth are not made for eating meat (at least not as a primary food source), and I thought milk was for babies only? Who gives us the right to go suck on a cows tit anyways? Really, I dont want to add anything to this myself, I'd rather you do, 'cause I'm just so angry
at us. Killing animals should be a law. It is not our right.
anyways, lets here what you religious or non folks think of eating meat and milk and such.
Our teeth are not made for eating meat? Mine seem to do just fine. Humans have the teeth of an omnivore, some for slicing, some for tearing and some for grinding. Humans have evolved to be omnivorous, we are in fact quite literally designed to eat meat.
See, a couple of million years ago our stupid ape ancestors began losing their jungle home because of climate change and so moved onto the expanding plains. Rather than evolving to be fast or strong, or to have big sharp teeth to survive, natural selection led them down the 'smart' route. The thing is that an animal's body is a carefully balanced machine with each organ requiring a certain percentage of the energy produced for it to function properly, the larger or more energy dependant an organ is the more ATP is allocated to it.
The brain needs a lot of energy to function, as our ancestors brains grew it became apparent that a vegetarian diet could not sustain them. Meat is a very rich source of energy and protein, all the goodness a growing brain needs, by adding meat to their diet their energy needs could easily be met, and so their brains could continue to grow.
Unfortunately, as i said before the body is a finely balenced machine. To have a growing brain and maintain the rest of the organs at the same size would require massive energy inputs, too massive. Thus the solution was to reduce the length of the gut, and so reduce its energy requirements. A shorter gut can digest meat just fine, problem is it cannot cope so well with vegetable matter - its all that cellulose thats the problem. And so you can see, our bodies have designed themselves to eat meat. Any vegetarian will tell you that a meat free diet must also be a carefully controlled diet.
Its called the Expensive Tissure Hypothesis, if anybody wants to look it up.
I do however disagree with the way animals are mass produced in todays western societies. I'd much prefer to go back to the old farming methods where animals had much more freedom and a better quality of life. Unfortunately that won't happen anytime soon. We'll just have to wait...
p.s. vegetarians kill things too you know. All those nuts they eat are potential lives, plus most vegetables you have for dinner involved having the plant killed. If you really wanted to hurt no living thing, you'd need to be a frugivore. But, you can't be a frugivore because a human can't survive on such a diet.
I'm against discrimination in favour of animals, surely plants have a right to life too?