Because we have to kill things to get sustanance on account of we can't perform photosynthesis. This myth that mammal and avian lives are somehow worth more than vegitable and fungal lives is exactly that: a touchy-feely myth perpetuated by people who view life in a heirarchy based on how much a life form looks like a human. The more human it looks, the more important it must be. Please.
I agree whole heartedly that everyone should eat less meat on strictly environmental grounds. I eat meat two or three times a week. I *never* eat meat as a center-piece of a meal - i.e. I don't eat steaks, roast chickens, pork chops or whatever. I eat in in quantities like "sausage in a sausage, white bean and vegitable soup" or "ham in a ham and cheese croissant".
Just because you're eating less meat doesn't mean you have to go all extreme and eat NO meat. Just... eat less. All things in moderation, neh?
And don't try to go with the moral argument, it doesn't wash. "Life" is not sacred, it's a way of describing discrete objects we share DNA with. Everything we eat was alive. Some lives are not better than others simply because they have eyes.
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Date: 2007-01-19 01:13 pm (UTC)Because we have to kill things to get sustanance on account of we can't perform photosynthesis. This myth that mammal and avian lives are somehow worth more than vegitable and fungal lives is exactly that: a touchy-feely myth perpetuated by people who view life in a heirarchy based on how much a life form looks like a human. The more human it looks, the more important it must be. Please.
I agree whole heartedly that everyone should eat less meat on strictly environmental grounds. I eat meat two or three times a week. I *never* eat meat as a center-piece of a meal - i.e. I don't eat steaks, roast chickens, pork chops or whatever. I eat in in quantities like "sausage in a sausage, white bean and vegitable soup" or "ham in a ham and cheese croissant".
Just because you're eating less meat doesn't mean you have to go all extreme and eat NO meat. Just... eat less. All things in moderation, neh?
And don't try to go with the moral argument, it doesn't wash. "Life" is not sacred, it's a way of describing discrete objects we share DNA with. Everything we eat was alive. Some lives are not better than others simply because they have eyes.