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Originally Posted by butthead aka 216
just a matter of where ya wanna draw the line. do we kill mosquitos and ants?? are they less than animals like deer? we prob dont need to but i mean meat is healthy and tastes great. and yes the world is barbaric just look at the animal kingdom if ya wanna see barbaric. theres a food chain and we are at the top, life isnt butterflies and rainbows
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But the difference there is that humans can walk into grocery stores and make an active decision to eat things other than carcasses filled with antibiotics, preservatives, steroids, etc. Animals in the wild scavenge for whatever they can get because they don't have the same option. They wouldn't know what to do with it because they haven't been raised to adapt in the way humans have.
I usually don't tell people I'm a vegetarian (unless they offer me something full of animals and still push after I say no) because of the ignorant ways they respond ("where do you get your protein?", "how are you still alive?", "PETA stands for 'people eating tasty animals' hurrrrrr hurrrr hurr I'm so funny hurrr"). It doesn't offend me; I just have a seriously low tolerance for people acting stupid. (Especially when they sit there and gnaw on whatever they're eating, make eye contact with me and make obnoxious sounds - what the hell are you trying to prove? That you act stupid for no reason??)
I don't judge people for their food choices, but I do like when they learn new ways to cut down on their animal consumption (but only if they want to/enjoy it). Meat is poison, but saying so isn't going to stop people from their habit.