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What difference does it make weather meat eating is natural or not?


One of the most common arguments made by the pro-meat eating segment of our society is that meat eating is natural and therefore ok. Personally i agree that meat eating is a natural behavior (or more accurately meat eating as part of an omnivorous diet) and quite honestly find the argument made by many vegetarians or vegans that our species is an obligate vegetarian frustrating to say the least.
While i find the belief that we are by nature vegetarian annoying it seems even less reasonable to claim that just because meat has been an important part of our diet in the past it is ok to continue behaving the same way. There are so many behaviors that in the past where considered ok or that are currently perfectly natural in the wild that are considered wrong and punished by law. to list a few Infanticide, rape,slavery, women not allowed to vote are all either common in nature or our past yet you rarely hear the argument that these behaviors are natural and therefore ok. My question is why the difference???
Mark

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Very good point.

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I don't see human beings as natural veggies, and I'm vegan. That's a weird thing to say, why would we be natural vegetarians ? You got a really good point there. I always try to explain this to someone when he says "but eating meat is natural !". Yes, it was natural many many years ago, ages ago ! Because we ate it to survive. They didn't have anything else. Now we eat it because it tastes good. That's the only reason. I wonder if back then, way back then, if something would have just tasted good, but wouldn't actually be necessary to eat all, we would have still killed it. I believe not. But that's my opinion. And to your question "what's the difference" I can only say: There is none. Seeing that there are no replies here makes me almos feel sad. The only reason pro-meat people will say otherwise is because they somehow need to justify eating meat, otherwise many would feel bad. I always see that. Whenever I say I'm vegan in a group, everybody starts justifying himself. It's a funny behavior. I never even get the feel to justify myself when no one's asking. I feel like that is the only reason, why people say there's a difference between what you said and killing for food. You made an interesting point, try to ask that someone you know who loves meat. He/she will probably start justifying him/herself, if not, I would be curious about what the person said. I never heard a good argument. In my life.

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