From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 11:11:51 MDT
From: Zero Powers zero_powers@hotmail.com
>From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>
> > We
> >
> > > have invented technologies that let us sustain ourselves at
> > > full
> > > health without lowering ourselves to eating other creatures.
>Is eating other creatures really that bad of a thing? I know that there
could be much more humane ways of doing it than raising a calf to be trapped
in a cage for its whole life before being killed by a blow to the head. But
that aside, most creatures that we eat were made to be eaten. Its called
the food chain. If we don't eat them other predators will.<
From: Zero Powers zero_powers@hotmail.com
>From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>
> > We
> >
> > > have invented technologies that let us sustain ourselves at
> > > full
> > > health without lowering ourselves to eating other creatures.
>Is eating other creatures really that bad of a thing? I know that there
could be much more humane ways of doing it than raising a calf to be trapped
in a cage for its whole life before being killed by a blow to the head. But
that aside, most creatures that we eat were made to be eaten. Its called
the food chain. If we don't eat them other predators will.<
I certainly do not think cows were designed to be herded together for filet mignon or beef Stroganoff. The food chain explains the arrangement of organisms of our ecological community according to the order of predation in which each life form eats the other or lower member as a food source. It isn't a set of rules governing a menu of whom should eat whom.
>Life is good. Refuse to die.<
Why should transhumans refuse to die but expect lower members of the animal kingdom to not require, demand or be given the same respect and freedom to live as humans or transhumans?
I understand that some people enjoy eating meat. I certainly would not want to push my views on others regarding such a personal choice (we are what we eat). But, I would rather it be volunteered that the taste of meat is something that folks crave and enjoy, or that it is a substantial protein source, rather than it being the purpose of an animal to be eaten by another animal higher up on the chain.
Natasha
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