To some vegans/vegetarians - when concerning animal rights - they believe humans and other animals are equal?!
Doesn't anybody realize that this is a dangerous path to tread down - bordering on eugenics!. Should we practice selective beading on humans!? Should we sterilize "genetically inferior" humans like we did in the US!? Only until the 70s was this policy terminated!. Should we hunt other humans for food!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
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no we should not sterilise genetically inferior humans, NOR ANIMALS!. this is why we are vegetarians, we believe you should not abuse animals!. we do not just think that the things humans do to animals should be done unto themselves!.
and no, we should not hunt people for food, again, we are VEGETARIANS not CANNIBALS!. and if you think the meat you eat is "hunted" then think again, it is raised for our own benefit and that is the thing most veggies are uneasy with!. if you hunt me some meat, i'll have no moral qualms about eating it (although all these years of not eating corpse might make me throw up all over you afterwards)Www@FoodAQ@Com
and no, we should not hunt people for food, again, we are VEGETARIANS not CANNIBALS!. and if you think the meat you eat is "hunted" then think again, it is raised for our own benefit and that is the thing most veggies are uneasy with!. if you hunt me some meat, i'll have no moral qualms about eating it (although all these years of not eating corpse might make me throw up all over you afterwards)Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes, I believe that humans and animals are equal!.
NO - we should not test on humans or hunt them or anything sick and twisted like that!.
I'm befuddled!. What is the logical extension of animals and humans being equal and hunting other humans for food!? Why the bloody hell would a vegetarian eat a human!? If animals are equal to humans and humans are equal to animals, then a vegetarian would not eat an animal and therefore would not eat a human!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
NO - we should not test on humans or hunt them or anything sick and twisted like that!.
I'm befuddled!. What is the logical extension of animals and humans being equal and hunting other humans for food!? Why the bloody hell would a vegetarian eat a human!? If animals are equal to humans and humans are equal to animals, then a vegetarian would not eat an animal and therefore would not eat a human!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I don't know what higher power said that humans and animals weren't equal!. In this section, God doesn't exist!.
We shouldn't even test on animals in the first place!. I don't even believe in breeding animals!. I just know breeding animals is going to backfire one of these days!. And I believe in hunting, but for eating!. And no, we shouldn't hunt humans because that cannabilism!. Deers are not cannabalistic!. Rabbits are inadvertently cannabilistic without realizing it!. They believe they are protecting their young, but they don't realize that they ate their young!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
We shouldn't even test on animals in the first place!. I don't even believe in breeding animals!. I just know breeding animals is going to backfire one of these days!. And I believe in hunting, but for eating!. And no, we shouldn't hunt humans because that cannabilism!. Deers are not cannabalistic!. Rabbits are inadvertently cannabilistic without realizing it!. They believe they are protecting their young, but they don't realize that they ate their young!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
I think you're taking "rights" too literally!. When people talk about animal rights I *think* they basically mean the rights to living happily and safely!. It's stupid to think humans and animals are equal in our rights and responsibilities!. As humans I believe we have superior knowledge and with that comes the responsibility to see that animals and other humans don't suffer unnecessarily and we should protect them!. But that's just me!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I've never met a vegan or vegetarian who valued animal life equal to human life!.
I'm vegan because I choose to minimise my contribution to animal suffering and exploitation as much as I can!. But I value human life way, way over animal life!. Anyone who says they don't is fooling themselves!. They don't treat their friends and family who eat meat or hunt in the same way they would treat someone who had killed a single human being, and anyone who says they would refuse all animal-tested drugs has never been had a life-threatening illness or accident!.
So I think your question is built on something of a false premise!. And I don't really understand why you've brought eugenic arguments into it - could you explain please!?
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I'm vegan because I choose to minimise my contribution to animal suffering and exploitation as much as I can!. But I value human life way, way over animal life!. Anyone who says they don't is fooling themselves!. They don't treat their friends and family who eat meat or hunt in the same way they would treat someone who had killed a single human being, and anyone who says they would refuse all animal-tested drugs has never been had a life-threatening illness or accident!.
So I think your question is built on something of a false premise!. And I don't really understand why you've brought eugenic arguments into it - could you explain please!?
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Animals may not be as intelligent as us but i believe that their lives are as of equal value to ours as they have been given a life and an individual lets say chicken wants to live her life and values it as much as you value yours!. They do not deserve to be exploited, eaten, tested on or worn and neither do any humans!.
-edit- yes animals hunt other animals for SURVIVAL!. we humans do not need meat to survive!. A carnivore hunting a wild animal is a little different than a cow or a chicken being raised for the purpose of being eaten, then taken off and slaughtered and you walking into the supermarket and buying it in a neat little package!. carnivorous animals are just doing what nature is telling them we humans have a choice, i chose to be vegetarian as i dont believe my appetite is more important than an animals suffering!. I dont want to kill any animals or pay someone to kill them for me!. That is my personal choice i am not forcing my beliefs on anyone else!. why contribute to the food chain just because we can though!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
-edit- yes animals hunt other animals for SURVIVAL!. we humans do not need meat to survive!. A carnivore hunting a wild animal is a little different than a cow or a chicken being raised for the purpose of being eaten, then taken off and slaughtered and you walking into the supermarket and buying it in a neat little package!. carnivorous animals are just doing what nature is telling them we humans have a choice, i chose to be vegetarian as i dont believe my appetite is more important than an animals suffering!. I dont want to kill any animals or pay someone to kill them for me!. That is my personal choice i am not forcing my beliefs on anyone else!. why contribute to the food chain just because we can though!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
Um, what!? I certainly don't!. I just don't think that it's okay to treat sentient beings like products!.
I really have no idea how you can leap from "humans and animals are equal" to "we should practice selective breeding in humans!." You do realize that most vegetarians and vegans are AGAINST doing things like that with animals, right!? Www@FoodAQ@Com
I really have no idea how you can leap from "humans and animals are equal" to "we should practice selective breeding in humans!." You do realize that most vegetarians and vegans are AGAINST doing things like that with animals, right!? Www@FoodAQ@Com
i do not think we are equal with the animals!.
the one thing that separates us from the animals is our power to reason!.
right now i think we've reasoned that there are as many harmful things about meat as there are helpful!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
the one thing that separates us from the animals is our power to reason!.
right now i think we've reasoned that there are as many harmful things about meat as there are helpful!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Nope!. I know no vegetarians or vegans who believe that animals and humans are equal!.
We can decide which path to tread for ourselves, thank you!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
We can decide which path to tread for ourselves, thank you!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
i think they're equal in the right not to suffer!.Www@FoodAQ@Com