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Re: I'm Not a Liberal: My Conversation with a Quacko
« on: April 18, 2009, 01:50:43 pm »
It's definitely true that the moral superiority is disgusting. It was the reason I quit vegetarianism, though the vegans would have you believe I was never a vegetarian to begin with.

However, to some degree consumers are responsible for the companies that sell to them. If those consumers are willing to pay a penny more for a product from a company that does not engage in such cruelty, then such a company will flourish and even dominate. However, if consumers are not willing to pay the extra penny, there will be no development of such a company, or it will fail. So you see, the company rises or falls because of the consumer. People have forgotten that.

Meat was never meant to be the staple in the Human diet. At some points Humans naturally had to go without. If they could not kill an animal, they went without. If game became scarce, they went without. If their main hunter or hunters fell ill or died, they went without. In the wild, the easiest thing to find, and the most healthy for you, is vegetable and fruit. Harder to find and process is grain, and thus neither was grain meant to be the staple of Human diet; breads and their many brethren are a relatively new invention, with regards to the development of the Human animal evolutionarilly.

As to eating meat being immoral, I maintain that it is. I think that higher sentience should equal higher consideration, thus a retarded baby would have no rights in my viewing, but an animal as intelligent as a Human such as a Porpoise, would have more rights. But, as higher animals, I think we have some right to eat lower ones.

Chickens don't actually live in coops anymore, but in tiny cages. What they show on that website is indeed disturbing. I just don't agree with the interpretation. Because chickens have been bred to the role of egg production, they can now either serve that function, or become extinct, since the average domestic chicken would have a very hard time eeking out a living in the wild.