re: #276 Tokyobk;

We don’t kill animals gratuitously. We kill them for food. To randomly kill animals is a waste. Why kill it if it isn’t a threat or you aren’t going to eat it? But the flesh of animals provides protein, something we need to survive. The quantity of protein per ounce is fairly large so it provides an economical protein source. As far as feeling pain goes, we don’t torture them to death. The difference between human flesh and animal flesh is fairly significant. Genetically, eating another of ones species can cause all kinds of problems because pathogens in that flesh readily transfer to consumer. The diseases that develop etc are terrible. One of the reasons that canniblistic societies usually failed was illness born of eating ones own kind. I understand the empathy, I have freinds that are buddist and have beleifs that preclude the eating of animals but it is a beleif that the animals are some sort of equivalent being and killing them is murder. It is a beleif that any being of flesh is a sentient being. I simply don’t beleive that.