On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:22:37 GMT, The Ghost of Pete Charest <pc@burning@hell> wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:45:58 GMT, "John Coleman" >
>wrote the following in alt.food.vegan:
>
>{snip}
>
>>if you found a dead animal that had died by accident, it would not be
>>unvegan to eat it, although you might be taking food away from predators -
>>in reality this is not a useful consideration, because the reality of animal
>>consumption is mass exploitation and a lot of suffering (a vegan campaign to
>>protest against picking up roadkills to eat is pointless because that
>>doesn't really happen! - but if it did, I would be more convinced that
>>humans are natural meat eaters)
>
>What makes you think that humans are not natural meat eaters?

"We now know that man inhabited warm areas, allowing the
favourable conditions for a fruit regimen, which according to
the Anatomic laws, is his natural diet." Charles Darwin .
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Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive
experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear
a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals,
slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the
deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature
that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed
me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be
consistent. Man resembles no carnivorous animal.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)