Evelyn- There is nothing biological about humyn consumption of flesh. Our digestive systems were not designed for it. It is the meat industry that perpetuates that notion. THey tell us that animal foods are healthy and natural for us, when in fact, they are killing us (and other animals). I agree that some animals are carnivorous. Cats, for example. But humyns are not. Even if we were, the arguement that they are there for our consumption is really anthropocentic. They are no more on this Earth for our consumption than we are for theirs. What makes you act like humyns are superior, or stewards or anything else. Maybe instead of taking biology classes to learn to manipulate this planet and the creatures on it, you should recognize the humyn-centered mentality that "biological science" perpetuates and let nature take her course. BTW, if eating animals is nature, then be natural and go out and kill them yourself. Industrialism and factory farming are certaingly not natural, and unjustifyable from a biological viewpoint. > ---------- > From: Evelyn Kaldoja[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 2:58 AM > To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT > Subject: Re: Meat > > 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. >
