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Originally Posted by Age
It's absolutely a question of values, although I'm sure your pretentiousness weighs into the equation.
The bottom line is that animals can't say "no." The bottom line is that eating meat is worth more to me than stopping the sufferering and death of a million animals. Why? Because that's the reality of the world. If a Lion found me in the wild, it would eat me, my suffering be damned.
We are animals, and we eat other animals for sustenance. Could we avoid that reality? Yes, but I have no compelling reason to.
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That's true, but we're the one species that understands exactly how most other animals suffer.
So yeah, a lion won't listen to me if I ask it not to eat me.
But I'll sure as hell understand what's going on when an animal screams out in pain as the skin is being ripped from it's still warm and very alive body.