In a recent documentary the term speciesism was used to illustrate mankind oppression on animals and it concluded by stating that not moderating our attitude towards our fellow earthlings should lead to a disaster. They described five ways of inducing sufferance to animals, but by far the most controversy subject was killing animals for food, that’s why they suggested that is very important that we reconsider our eating habits.
I am not arguing that harming animals is not wrong, but I am also not very sure if it is a bad thing to eat meat, after all it is in our nature. Of course, it wouldn’t hurt to try eating just as much we need. I have never been to Asia, so I wouldn’t know it, but I’ve been told by almost every Asian person I met that us, Europeans, eat much more meat than they do; actually, much more food, generally speaking.
So, we are intelligent creatures and we gradually became more tolerant and less ignorant and violent. In the past we did abominable things to our fellow humans, things that today we like to think of as being hateful to do even on animals. Evolution is natural, but I don’t know if the natural way of evolving is by stopping killing or even harming animals just because they suffer. Humans too, suffer because of other humans (or sometimes because of animals). We still go to war for doubtful reasons.
I think harming animals is an issue of each of ours beliefs. We cannot all stop eating animals at once just because we should be more tolerant towards them. It is in the earthling’s nature to eat other creatures. Animals eat other animals; if we care that much about them shouldn’t we convince them not to, anymore?
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Dude, this is one controversial post,i hope u don't have any vegan/vegetarian friends :p.
I'd compliment you for not being hypocritical about your attitude towards the 'poor' animals we eat. I tend to become so sometimes.
Stopping eating animals though is more complex than you made it look like. As you know, the animals are grown on an industrial scale with almost no quality of life whatsoever. There's a lot of cruelty going on for them during their lifetime, not only when they die. It's like animal concentration camps if you'd like it put that way. Also these animals are grown by the millions to provide food that could be substituted by other products not containing meat. Therefore a lot of resources are wasted during the process, and lots of pollution results. This could be diminished if we'd only stick to consuming dairy, eggs and such stuff that doesn't require killing the animal.
It's true that it's in our habit and nature to eat meat but then again culture changes habits and it didn't harm anyone so far (otherwise the culture would eventually change?) so it would be possible in theory that we all wouldn't eat meat.
I'd say it all comes to prioritizing our needs, does food matter so much to us in the western world? yes it does! And so does all the shit we buy which we don't really need, it's called materialism. Why isn't it so important in other cultures? For many reasons, one of which being a higher interest towards higher needs, such as spirituality, culture, enlightenment of any kind.
Anyway, there would be more to say but i gotta start working, on this beautiful sunny Monday morning in snowy Prague, and think more about my meaty lunch that will come.
Cheers !
I agree, we can change. You were talikng about concentration camps. Until a few decades ago, humans received the same treatment, and I guess it will never happen again. But if we managed to stop eating animals, whatsoever, wouldn't it mean that we'd be more tolerant to animals than they are to other animals? I mean why do we have to be the fairest creatures on Earth? And I'm not talking about carnivores, because it would be absurd, I'm talking about omnivores like us.
The fact is we can't stop. It is in our nature. It's also in our culture, but only to some degree. Like I said - we may try to eat less, like Asian people, but I don't think is that easy.
Enjoy your meal! ;)
"wouldn't it mean that we'd be more tolerant to animals than they are to other animals"
Comeon man, of course animals aren't tolerant, they just are. It's inappropriate to compare humans with animals, they eat to live while we, on the other hand, tend to do the opposite because we have reason and enjoy the food.
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