Originally posted by EThuggV2
I would say if they were hunters, it was by choice. Our piss poor canine teeth, and our well developed molars alone prove we aren\'t natural predators. Scavengers perhaps.
And no, I don\'t grow my own food. \'Millions\' of animals aren\'t killed by farming either. I can pull numbers out of my ass too. The number of animals that are killed by accident is much fewer than you murderers kill on purpose. And I would rather try my odds at running away from a large slow machine than be born and die with no chance to survive being force fed drugs.
Look at any timeline of human history, and you\'ll see for the vast majority of our time here on earth...as in maybe 99% of it, we were hunters and gatherers. Meat has always been a main part of our diet. We didn\'t kill with our teeth, but our teeth clearly are ideal for ripping apart meat on an already killed animal.
And yes, millions of animals are killed by farming. And I\'m not pulling these numbers out of my ass. You want sources? How about the fact that 90% of the ten million pheasants born in the U.S. annually are killed by harvesting machines. (
source) That alone is 9 million animals killed annually by harvesting processes, and that\'s only one species. That doesn\'t even take into account the millions of rabbits, rodents, snakes, etc. that are also killed by agricultural combines. So yes, millions, upon millions of animals are killed yearly to produce the vegetables you eat. Then, you think you have the right to look down on those who eat meat? At least the animals that died to make my meal aren\'t simply left to rot in the fields.