> 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. > >
