Vegan/Animal Rights

"Bacon and steak are not really bacon and steak without the meat that goes into them." Do you know that bacon/steak really are? cut up parts of corpses and dead bodies. Why do you get to give your "food" fancy nicknames and I don't? "Also, in many countries, including America, the majority of the population eat meat." And your point is?? What your doing is a logical fallacy in which your saying "Since I have the majority, I must be correct." Your not. "Plus, getting rid of the meat industry entirely would be different than transitioning from milk to soy" Why is it?? "(more milk is sold than soy anyways)." There you go again with the logical fallacy! your saying "Since I have the majority, I must be correct." Your not. "With no more meat being sold, animals like pigs would no longer be useful, and many of them might be slaughtered." That's an argument from ignorance. "To cause everyone to go vegan might in a way support the cause you are fighting against." That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. "Humans aren't the only ones who kill living beings, many animals like tigers, lions, and sharks eat living beings to survive." A human body no ways resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. ... But if you will contend that yourself was born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe"as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou hadst rather stay until what thou eatest is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against Nature eat an animate thing? Nay, there is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing as it is; but they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare. Humans are 100% herbivorous. "Why are humans supposed to defy the laws of nature and stop eating something that has been part of our diet since the beginning of the human race!" Humans are going that right now. We are eating something that is UNnatural. Meat, dairy, and eggs. Sources: Plutarch, "Of Eating of Flesh," Moral Essays (1898 translation). Reprinted in Animal Rights and Human Obligations, ed. Tom Regan and Peter Singer (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1976), pp. 113-114. 2. For purposes of this essay I will use the abbreviation "meat-eater" to refer to any human who eats not only meat, but also dairy products, eggs, and honey. 3. For although there are bodies more massive than Jupiter beyond the trans-Neptunian bodies, at that distance the sun's gravitation would be too weak to hold such a massive body within an orbit about the sun. 4. Henry S. Salt, Logic of the Larder. Excerpted from The Humanities of Diet (Manchester: The Vegetarian Society, 1914). In this context Salt is actually referring to yet another pathetic defense of meat-eating, which argues that animals should be grateful to the persons who eat them, since without a demand for these animals, they would never have existed! To be honest, I was sorely tempted to write another essay in this series, and call it The Insipid "But the Animals Wouldn't Exist if We Didn't Eat Them" Argument. However, no one can improve on what Salt has already had to say about it, so I gladly refer readers to his essay instead.