Intake of a lot of nutrients that can't otherwise be found naturally, various controlling effects on natural cycles of populations of predators and prey, and lots of other things?Originally Posted by Calliope
Intake of a lot of nutrients that can't otherwise be found naturally, various controlling effects on natural cycles of populations of predators and prey, and lots of other things?
Also, we're omnivorous?
Yeah, but we don't need to anymore! HURRAH FOR VITAMINS AND SOY!
You asked why it was natural.
give all your pies to Lars
*confused* but I don't view it as natural now! I mean, for Fred Flintstone, fine. But aren't we a little more civilised, possibly with a zee?
No.
Why?
Because why should I forcefully change my own species evolutionary path from the past 100,000 years and stop eating meat altogether? Animals are there to eat one another. My species happens to be quite superior thus enabling it to sustain itself through the killing of other animals. I do not condone the senseless killing of animals or the waste of food, but I was designed over the centuries to eat plants AND animals. I'm not about to deny my ability to do so and my enjoyment of eating said animals.
EDIT: That didn't answer your question.
I'm sorry, I'm trying to take this seriously, but I keep thinking of the gorilla eating the banana and then the shark eating the gorilla.
Okay.
Soy's a good source of protein, plus it can be made to look and taste like practically anything, but no amount of soy and vitamins is a substitute for the full range of nutrition that some of our bodies require. Certain vegetarians/vegas can get by just fine; some require daily doses of supplements; others would be severely malnourished if they kept at it. It's exceedingly difficult for many people to get what they need without resorting to meat. For those who can, and choose to... good on 'em; but if someone's gotta start losing hair and brain cells and who-knows-what, then I say they should keep going with the animals. Different cultures and different individuals have different needs. None of us could subsist on cow blood and milk, yet the Masais tribe used to, and did so for a very long while. Our ancestors were chowing down on dead beasties for millennia; you can't undo that kind of adaptation overnight.
Besides, plants and animals are both a part of the natural world; to say that one should exist when it's perfectly OK to destroy the other for food and clothing seems a little off to me... hence, I wear cotton pants and leather shoes. Both were once part of a living thing, something that died but that can be put to use rather than being left to rot and smell
STALIN YOU DORK ISN'T THAT THE FOOD WEB?
Yeah, it is pretty difficult. Stupid Iron and B12 and other things that are things. Like sleep.
If it was living, breathing, and thinking at some point in time, and is now on a plate, nicely cooked.
I'll eat it.
'frr_Vegeta
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