Re: extropians-digest V4 #13

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Fri Jan 15 1999 - 11:51:02 MST


Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@together.net> wrote:
> > Thank you very much. This is an excellent reference.
> > We can also look to actual people who live exclusively on meat diets
>
> Why should we look to them any more than looking to vegetarians?
> The human body can adapt to any number of culturally diverse diets.

It may adapt, but what is it most efficiently evolved for? The page she
referenced purports to show that the human digestive tract is, in fact,
optimized for a meat diet. On a basis of natural law, this means that it
is in fact not naturally immoral for humans to kill animals and eat their
meat. One might say that it is more moral than displacing herbivorous
animals in the food chain of an ecosystem with humans practicing the less
efficient herbivorous lifestyle.

Mike Lorrey



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