re: #274 Shane

Shane, here is why I respectfully disagree with you:

There is a choice as to how we obtain substance. I would certainly kill and eat animals to avoid starving, to feed my family or to feed your family, meaning my loyalty to another human trumps the desire not to make a pig suffer, and suffer they do.

However, the belief that a measurement of morality is found in our compassion results in me believing that killing an animal gratuitously, and again in 2009 in any developed country it is gratuitous especially fellow mammals who feel pain just as sure as they produce milk.

Also, the ingestion of flesh is vile from the point of view that whatever makes animals and humans different; intelligence? A soul? It is not flesh and blood which we share. In my opinion, cannibalism is a homologue to carnivorism.

IMO.