Re:The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?
by maximente on Thursday August 01, 2019 @02:37PM
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> Note also that, as animals, we are not plant-eaters: we can't survive on plant matter alone.
it clearly makes the argument "as animals, we are not plant eaters". did you really mean animals? or did you mean omnivores?
Re:The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?
by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:15AM
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I don't understand the source of the confusion. We are animals that eat plants and other animals, so we are omnivores. What is unclear or controversial about this?
"Make" is a metaphor. I just don't like to use the turn of phrase "we evolved to do X" because it leads to just-so stories. And it's common to use vague evolutionary arguments to try and support all sorts of personal opinions: "We evolved to do X so we should not do Y", etc.
The point is that we are an animal that eats other animals and plants. I don't think that this is any more controversial than saying that a tiger is an animal that eats other animals and a sheep is an animal that eats grasses.
So, as animals that eat other animals and plants- what is wrong with us eating other animals?