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being omnivorous doesn't mean we have to eat meat, it means you get to choose, which is like, the entire point?
Do you think you would die or be unhealthy if you stopped eating meat and other animal products? If that's what you think then say that so someone has the opportunity to rebut you.
Because it's unclear what you're trying to imply by saying "we're omnivorous".
I am curious, can you please offer your rebuttal on how a vegan diet can be as healthy as a balanced low processed food omnivore diet.
"omnivorous" but we need to cook the meat before eating... I think we started to eat meat to survive, we were basically vegan/vegetarians... I'm neither an expert but is what I understood from documentals and others sources.
Also, I think the country that eats more meat in this world also has the most ratio of fat people in the population.
It's the sugar and (to a slightly lesser extent) carbs combined with a lifestyle that presses us into eating quick processed low quality food while not being conducive to exercise that makes Americans fat.
Sashimi exists.
And that’s probably not the only example.
Steak tartar is another easy one. There are a lot more, including the fact that rare steak is basically uncooked inside, just warmed up.
So much of that is misplaced anthropomorphism though. Throughout history hundreds of millions of people have wrung the neck of a chicken or dropped a lobster into boiling water. Almost none of them have cried.
TV melodrama is a weird way to decide which actions have moral weight. We're particularly sensitive to the deaths of mammals because we see human qualities in their suffering.
And i actually have a running hypothesis in my head that the whole term "anthropomorphism" is a false concept based on human's endless capacity for hubris and arrogance, like "manifest destiny". In my view 'anthropomorphism' as a term defining human traits in animals requires one to first have faith that traits such as "thinking" and "feeling" are limited to humans.
If you believe in evolution how realistic would it even be that we are alone in being able to reason? We're full of ourselves the moment we forget we're simply monkeys with the most powerful combination to come out of evolution so far: written language so that we might retain the lessons of generations past, and hands to build tools.
Who said anything about us being alone in reasoning? Sheep not driving cars and chickens not keeping diaries have better factual basis than the west being destined for white men, so I don't see the analogy except that they both involve exploitation.
I dunno I'm exposed to way more people who do cutsie voices for their "fur babies" than people willing to argue that our murderous, destructive species is exclusively superior. But then I guess that's because I spend more time with IRL friends than on vegan forums, which I imagine attract edgelords looking to troll.