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Originally Posted by CSflim
I already addressed the point that "we evolved to eat meat, therefore eating meat is morally right". Are you really suggesting that we should look to evolution (arguably the most wasteful, cruel, entriely amoral process on the planet) for moral guidance?
The analogy with breathing is not a useful one:
We must breathe in order to survive. We have no choice in the matter. We do not have to eat meat. There are alternatives.
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Moral guidance? No. Just nutritional intake. Eating a hamburger has nothing to do with morals. It is simply a part of life and nature. And yes, it is amoral. That is why it is so wonderful. The problem with humans is that we ARE moral. There is no needless cruelty in the animal kingdom. They do what thay have to to survive. Plain and simple. We, on ther other hand, take something as simple as dinner and turn it into a moral delema, and then break out into 2000 years of war because someone said "Hamburgers are evil!", even though we have been eating hamburgers for the last 2000 freakin years. That is not the moral high ground. That is fucking with the system.