On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, sarah clifton wrote: > You know, this sound all too familiar. "Blacks should be slaves because > they are a lesser species." "Women should serve their men, because eve was > made from adam.", etc, etc, etc. > > Does it bother you that you are perpetuating specisism by acting with no > concern whatsoever for other (non-humyn) animals? > OK, let's imagine that you were right... Then it might be right to force tigers and wolves to eat grass and vegetables too? I don't know what programs have American schools in Chemistry, Biology and Environment studies, but I have been tought that some animals need to get animal proteins and human is one of those animals. Also, those meat-eating animals are actually doing good to those whom they're eating -- by killing the weaker ones they don't let their population grow too big and also, help the evolution process to take place. Biology is not a society study where everything depends on researcher's sex, race, subculture, age ... I consider myself part of the nature and so I prefer eating meat and raw vegetables to E-chemistry that comes with the western plastic culture. But in America things are probably different and people have estranged from the nature more than we here (that might even be one of the good things that comes with being a post-communist state). For me both extremes -- total vegetarianism and total hamburgerianism (if I may use such expression) -- seem quite unnatural.
