Let's do a little experiment.
Please forget all you know - just for a brief moment.
Great! Let's get to it.
Now.
Imagine yourself in a place without developed culture.
You're in this world, but without any preconceived ideas of what to eat. You're left to your own senses.
Now, you have fruits, vegetables, rice, grains and all that we have available today. But you're in the wild; society is a foreign concept for you, but you're in a tropical habitat with lots of food available.
How messy do you want to get?
However, there are no stores in sight - no slaughterhouses or any dairy farms either. Your dependant on yourselves to find your food, if you want fruit, you need to pick it. If it's vegetables you'd want - then get on your knees and dig them out. prepare to get dirty - how messy are you willing to get? Do you mind some dirt underneath your fingernails? What about blood? Is it still worth eating meat?
If you're left to yourself, how much do you want your daily cow-milk?
Are you willing to do all the work that is required to milk a cow?
I mean, why would you even consider milking another animal? Isn't that perverted, just slightly? How would you react if someone milked cats every day and drank it for breakfast? They would be perceived mentally unstable for most people, but honestly? Is there any significant difference from what we're doing with cows? Our body doesn't need cow milk, any more than it needs cat milk. All other animals wean of milk and only drink their mothers' milk when growing. Who came up with this great idea to captivate cows, separate them from their calves and then drink it's milk so we could get growth-hormones and an overload of protein?
Without your past social condition how do you justify drinking cows milk?
If it does make any sense why not go for something more luxurious, what about some high-class pig milk? Or get your constipation and slimy throat from horse milk?
Mmm, bacon?
If you have more than enough food available, (which we all have today) would you still carry on killing an animal for your taste-preference? Why even capture them? The food you need to sacrifice to keep them alive - you could have eaten instead being a more calorie-efficient choice.
Does the taste of the animal's flesh make up for killing a being that doesn't want to die? Does it justify it? What is your justification if any?
Why kill when you can love?
What animal would you kill anyway? What's the natural target when you have thrown away everything you've been taught to eat? Isn't insects more favorable? At least they aren't as cute as all the other animals, right? Much easier to obtain and far less straightforward to prepare and digest. When we look at animals, we admire their majestic beauty, innocence and cuteness. At least insects are more kind of neutral, but still not very attractive to our senses and appetite. I'd rather eat some mangoes if it were up to me.
What about monkeys? Are they too similar to us?
Well, what about cats then? They are farther away in an evolutionary sense...
Farther away than cows, and pigs, smaller in size as well - If that means anything to you?
Why even bother?
Chasing an animal for food, when you could dig the earth for some vegetables or pick some fruit?
Why kill it? When you could look at its beauty, Take care of it and see it as another being that wants to live a happy life just like you. Why not share a few loving strokes on its sensitive body?
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Mahatma Gandhi
Why eat it?
Your teeth aren't even sharp enough to rip its flesh apart; the lion would look at you and laugh as you use fancy utensils to cut it up, cook it and finally be barely able to digest it. You have a stomach and digestive juices that are designed to break down vegetarian foods, not anything with eyes on it.
Pooping and food
When you eat meat your stools can become hard and sometimes uncomfortable. Breaking down meat takes a long time and steal lots of energy in the digestive process. Eat fruit, and it goes effortlessly through your system and gives you quick power! Eat a whole meal of meat, and you potentially end up tired, lazy and the only thing you're energized to do is to turn on the TV and switch channels in the commercials.
And, don't let me go on about the smell... Eating dead animals isn't easy to hide for other human beings that have the joy of sharing the bathroom with you. Meat eaters have short intestines, and We don't. Meat eaters have acidic digestive juices. We don't. So when our body struggles to digest the innocent animal and use more time on the whole process, the food will stink when it comes out the other end. Did I mention that it's a dead animal? Putrifying in your insides?
What if your poop doesn't need to smell bad if we you eat a more natural diet?
Well, there's only one way to find out. Go vegan, and your poop might start to smell like the aroma of wild grown flowers and more animals will live a peaceful life - instead of putrifying out of your ass.
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