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Originally Posted by Iliftrocks
I don't think this is very realistic, no matter how much genius the man otherwise had to offer. It's a nice thought, but we'd have to remove ourselves completely from the natural order of things to accomplish this.
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You make it sound mystical. It's not that we'd have to stop eating to survive or anything. We'd still need food. How is not eating meat a complete removal from the "natural order of things."
Look at our current level of technology and means of living in the developed world. How would something as simple as not eating animal flesh anymore remove us any further from "nature" than we already have otherwise?
How many other species have a large segment of their population who don't know how to adequately hunt or forage?
How many other species have "home comfort" and indoor plumbing technology?
How many other species communicate instantaneously through wires and over the air at distances that span the planet and reach beyond its atmosphere?
How many other species have gone to outer space?
We are technologically advanced, but we are also "domesticated." Turn us loose in the wild and many of us will die, just like animals raised in captivity.
We are already far removed from this "natural order of things." Whether we eat meat is of little consequence in that matter.