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Originally posted by Dyshade
Vegetarianism is a good wish...... yet I still like leather boots and cheese dammit... hehe....
look at the old Indian Tribes that lived in the US.... they grazed from herds of buffolo and used every piece that they got from it including the bones and intestines..... nowadays we do not do that.... we harvest what we need and throw the rest away.... which is bad practice... yet what do we need sharp pieces of bone for... we have steel sewing needles and forks and such.....
Though I do agree that in practice vegetarianism would do us good since we have overpopulated this planet..... thier are Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores..... we happen to be Omnivores.... a combination of both..... we can subsist off of both groups of foods.... real herbivores are such as Horses, and cows.... cows have four stomachs to process thier grains and grasses they feed off of..... Omnivores are capable of surviving off of either food group.... take a cow and feed it flavored meat(grain or grass flavored) and it will slowly die from a pure meat diet..... well not too slowly....
where as humans can subsist off of meat for months.... though if we do go too long without veggies we can contract scurvy.....
We are primarily Omnivores..... we are kinda like Rats or mice in that instance.... we will eat anything that walks crawls or grows.....
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*smiles* Exactly, I was going to mention the Native American aspect, and it's a brilliant example of respect for that which they used to sustain and clothe themselves with. It was also about survivial, which today meat consumption is not about at all. It's purely because people
like it. I just think of the fact that if the world was entirely vegetarian (and psssst Dyshade I understand though I don't have a problem with organic dairy products, it's the way in which mass production of these products are extracted that disturbs me..) it would have such enormous implications, hunting for the sake of killing an animal for sport would seem insane, poaching would eventually become "extinct"
and nature can with time and care return to her cycles and balance can be restored.