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Lena B. Katz

> In article >, (Glitter
> Ninja) wrote:
>
>> sarah bennett > writes:
>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>> sarah bennett wrote:
>>>>> aem wrote:
>>>>>> Ranee Mueller wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rabbit is a food animal, [snip]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Exactly right, and you'd think that would be the end of the
>>>>>> matter, but there are a lot of people who for one reason or
>>>>>> another resist that concept.
>>
>> People have free will, you know. If someone doesn't want to eat rabbits
>> or cows or frogs for whatever reason, they shouldn't have to put up with
>> your intolerance and insults about it.
>
> And Patches shouldn't have had to endure the comments that if she was a
> "nice," "decent" person she wouldn't eat the rabbit. It cuts both ways.

It's funny. I think I can see most "meativores" saying the same thing if they caught someone eating a dog or cat (I know someone who has eaten dog in Korea). Rabbits can be pets too.

> As for condescension, tell that to the veggies who
> inform all and sundry of the evils of what they are eating and the PETA
> types who claim that Jesus was a vegetarian. In The Man Who Ate
> Everything, vegetarians were described as failed omnivores. I tend to
> agree. Either by God or through evolution, pick your origin, humans were
> put at the top of the food chain.

humans aren't at the top of the food chain. Cougars are. They regularly hunt humans.

> There are some amino acids and some
> forms of vitamin B which are not available outside of meat.

you're gonna have to cite your sources on that one. Because there are entire cultures that have adopted the ethical idea that vegitarianism is the better way to live ... and by your reasoning, they should have died out.

> Someone who
> fails to eat meat, because they can't stand the thought of those poor
> little animals dying has been too far removed from the food chain.

There's a better way to get a vegitarian's goat: plants feel pain too. How would you like it if someone ate your entire torso?

Lena