In the big picture the decision to eat meat or not is essentially a belief structure that either allows or prevents it morally for individuals. The practice of marketing meat for profit creates a hostile environment where the beliefs of both meat eaters and abstainers keep colliding. It isn't a bad thing because some beliefs need to be re-examined from the much more knowledgeable position we have today. As with all things humanity usually runs to the incorrect easy idea first and lets their children fix the mess it creates. Oddly enough if we focus on education our children will be smarter and can probably save themselves from the crazy world we've built for them to live in.
Personally I don't see an issue with eating meat but I do oppose unethical farming. I also oppose imprisonment of humans, just because we are self aware doesn't mean we can be treated worse.
I see life as a single entity that has evolved humans as it's current lead species, if we plunder and kill ourselves off, life will evolve the cockroach as it's first choice or perhaps a bacteria with a hive mind. Before we kill all life on this planet I think we may awake ourselves, perhaps not. Just looking around we've obviously had global civilization long ago and we don't even have record of it so we may be on the 2nd 3rd or greater attempt by life to produce something that isn't insane as a lead species.
The interesting part is that all higher functioning life requires a lower functioning life as food. Plants and micro organisms break down the earth water and light so higher life forms can consume them. We all spring from the same DNA and we are all connected to this thing called life. The simple rule of life is that no higher life form can farm a lower form to extinction without threatening themselves. We have offed thousands of species and like a huge Jenga game our world is full of holes. To life it doesn't matter what you eat it just matters you don't eat it all.
Personally I don't see an issue with eating meat but I do oppose unethical farming. I also oppose imprisonment of humans, just because we are self aware doesn't mean we can be treated worse.
I see life as a single entity that has evolved humans as it's current lead species, if we plunder and kill ourselves off, life will evolve the cockroach as it's first choice or perhaps a bacteria with a hive mind. Before we kill all life on this planet I think we may awake ourselves, perhaps not. Just looking around we've obviously had global civilization long ago and we don't even have record of it so we may be on the 2nd 3rd or greater attempt by life to produce something that isn't insane as a lead species.
The interesting part is that all higher functioning life requires a lower functioning life as food. Plants and micro organisms break down the earth water and light so higher life forms can consume them. We all spring from the same DNA and we are all connected to this thing called life. The simple rule of life is that no higher life form can farm a lower form to extinction without threatening themselves. We have offed thousands of species and like a huge Jenga game our world is full of holes. To life it doesn't matter what you eat it just matters you don't eat it all.
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