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no one goes after lions and tigers and bears (oh my) for their vile meat-eating practices?! I guess because it's a natural instinct for these creatures to eat meat. I don't know if it's "natural" for homo sapiens to eat meat... in fact, according to the Old Testament, the Jews (or all of humankind to that point, depending on whose story you believe) were all vegetarians up until the great flood. Afterwards, God felt like a loser for blowing his gasket and told Noah and his family they could eat meat for consolation.
(As Hudson would say, I'm on a one-way trip for that crack, GOIN' DOWN!!!)
Anyway, not sure what my point is, except to say, why must we attach a moral judgment to the practice of eating meat? I mean, I can see where it is a moral/political/environmental issue when it comes to eating too *much* meat, insofar as the methane gas pollution from too many cows, the depreciation of land where the cows graze, and all the points already made about bio-hazards from overuse of anti-biotics, yadda, yadda, yadda...
But aside from the excessive lifestyle issue which can be applied to so many different areas of life in western culture, I don't think there is anything inherently, morally wrong with eating meat. It's all the crap that goes with eating too much of it that I can't and won't deny is the problem.
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