Ban meat, dairy, and eggs worldwide.

You disagree on grounds of self-domestication and living organisms being tough in general? This simply will not fly. You don’t get to just disagree with scientific fact. So I will disembowel your ‘evidence’ point by point. First to your odd choice of a paper entitled ‘On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics’. This paper does not counter the fact of artificial selection, it supports it. You quote in the abstract: "The hypothesis that anatomically modern homo sapiens could have undergone changes akin to those observed in domesticated animals has been contemplated in the biological sciences for at least 150 years. " [23]. A hypothesis being contemplated offers zero empirical evidence that it is true. Regardless, the paper then defines what it means by domestication in its introduction: “The term "domestication" refers to a goal-directed process through which humans have changed physical features of plants and animals by replacing natural through artificial selection to adapt these species to specific human needs.”[23] What we’re talking about here is artificial selection. Your article from WIRED (wow, what a great source for empirical studies) nails it: “Starting in 1959 with 130 farm-bred but wild foxes and continuing until today, researchers allowed only those individuals most tolerant of human contact to breed. In less than 50 years, the fierce-tempered and untouchable foxes became playful, face-licking sweethearts who loved to be held. Those traits are typically seen in wild pups, but disappear as they grow up.”[24] That’s artificial selection at work my friend. And now to your sacred rabbit. I quote the very article you linked: “Domestication of wild animals was one of the most important steps in the development of agriculture. Dogs, cows, sheep, goats and pigs were domesticated between 15,000 and 9,000 years ago, but the rabbit held out until 1400 years ago.”[25] It is clear that these animals did not domesticate themselves and the article makes no attempt to claim otherwise. Darwin himself is even quoted in the article directly from Origin of Species. He used domestic animals as proof that it is possible to change the traits of a species through selection. This is artificial selection. Your PBS article doesn’t even touch artificial selection. Anyone who has been to the park to feed the birds and the squirrels can see this version of ‘self-domestication’ at work. But it says nothing to debunk the resounding fact that our livestock populations have been artificially selected over thousands of years to be suited for human consumption. It is no coincidence that you’d be hard pressed to find any example of self-domesticated animals (be they wolves or bonobos) on the shelf of a meat market. For reasons that should be more than obvious, humans prefer eating animals that were artificially selected for that purpose rather than animals that may or may not have ‘self-domesticated’ themselves. Big shocker, I know. As for your final thought on the amount of species that go extinct every year, this has absolutely nothing to do with anything so I won’t bother wasting time on it. So now let’s revisit the fact: Fact: Domesticated livestock is specifically bred for human consumption. The associated by-products (dairy and eggs) come from said livestock. It only exists and thrives thanks to artificial selection. Artificial selection is the reason why these species and their by-products exist, and without continual human intervention, it would cease to exist whether its consumption by humans is legal or not. If you unfamiliar with how evolution works please check out the following link: http://evolution.berkeley.edu... If it’s any consolation, artificial selection works equally well on the plants you so adore nourishing yourself with. But just as with the animals, seedless grapes don’t grow themselves. I am going to go enjoy a bacon cheeseburger with extra mayonnaise while giving you an opportunity to re-think your position on artificial selection and the fact presented above before continuing. Links you provided for your own reference 23. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...... 24. http://www.wired.com...... 25. http://sciencenordic.com...... 26. http://www.pbs.org...... 27. http://wwf.panda.org......