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Lecktor Hannibal
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12-27-2005 13:12
If animals aren't supposed to be eaten, why are they made out of meat ?
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Toy LaFollette
I eat paintchips
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12-27-2005 13:13
I didnt fight my way to the top of the food chain to eat veggies
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Lecktor Hannibal
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12-27-2005 13:14
I didnt fight my way to the top of the food chain to eat veggies  _____________________
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Billy Grace
Land Market Facilitator
Join date: 8 Mar 2004
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12-27-2005 13:14
And why are they so yummy???
And why do we have "meat eating" teeth???  And why, oh why did God create BBQ sauce???  _____________________
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Gabe Lippmann
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12-27-2005 13:21
And why do we have "meat eating" teeth You're so lucky to have teeth  _____________________
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Taco Rubio
also quite creepy
Join date: 15 Feb 2004
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12-27-2005 13:29
welcome back, j'idiot.
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Maeve Morgan
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Join date: 2 Apr 2004
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12-27-2005 14:01
If we were not meant to eat animals they would not be slow stupid and tasty
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Loki Pico
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Join date: 20 Jun 2003
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12-27-2005 14:23
And why do we have "meat eating" teeth??? Actually, humans dont have meat eater teeth. Most of our teeth are flat molars designed to chew plants. Humans are designed to eat plants. Try eating a steak sometime without using a knife and you will begin to see what I mean. Our teeth and digestive system are far better able to handle plants than meat. But, we can and do eat meat. We have adapted to doing that. I am not a vegatarian, I eat meat almost daily. But, from a design standpoint, humans are best suited to eat plants. |
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Lorelei Patel
was here
Join date: 22 Feb 2004
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12-27-2005 14:27
I am not a vegatarian, I eat meat almost daily. But, from a design standpoint, humans are best suited to eat plants. Hm. That design doesn't sound very intelligent to me. _____________________
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Lordfly Digeridoo
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12-27-2005 14:29
Actually we're omniverous (herbivore and carnivore). That's why we hunted woolly mammoth, after all. And also why I can digest steak after I eat it.
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Loki Pico
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12-27-2005 14:31
I wont debate the advantages to eating meat, but that doesnt change my mind that humans are best suited for plant eating.
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Creami Cannoli
Please don't eat me....
Join date: 17 Jul 2005
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12-27-2005 14:42
Humans are meat too...let's eat HUMANS!!!!
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Damien Took
Meat Popsicle
Join date: 3 Dec 2004
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12-27-2005 14:49
Most of our teeth are flat molars designed to chew plants. Except for those sharp pointy ones in the front...that help rip into meat Our front teeth slice, dice, rip and chop. Knives are for manners, we could eat steak without them. We are omnivores and are designed to eat both meat and non-meat foods as Lordfly stated. I just did a bit of quick research and found that there are omnivore primates as well as herbivore primates (as I suspected). If we were not meant to eat meat it would do us no good to do so, but it does. Our bodies are meant to handle certain amounts of meat. More non-meat, I'll give you that, but still some meat. |
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Kazuo Murakami
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12-27-2005 15:04
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Rickard Roentgen
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12-27-2005 15:48
Actually, humans dont have meat eater teeth. Most of our teeth are flat molars designed to chew plants. Humans are designed to eat plants. Try eating a steak sometime without using a knife and you will begin to see what I mean. Our teeth and digestive system are far better able to handle plants than meat. But, we can and do eat meat. We have adapted to doing that. I am not a vegatarian, I eat meat almost daily. But, from a design standpoint, humans are best suited to eat plants. au contrair, we have canine's, anyway, humans are incapable of digesting left handed sugars (or is it right handed) such as the cellulose that plant cell walls are made out of. Our evolutionary ancestors were not all herbivores either, in fact our binocular vision indicates depth perception was probably a pretty important to our survival and that's usually the case with predators. oh and did I mention I loooove jerky _____________________
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Lecktor Hannibal
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12-27-2005 16:08
Hm. That design doesn't sound very intelligent to me. _____________________
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Lecktor Hannibal
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12-27-2005 16:08
welcome back, j'idiot. herro _____________________
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Surreal Farber
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12-27-2005 16:14
mmmmmm MEAT!!
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Willow Zander
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12-27-2005 16:16
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Seifert Surface
Mathematician
Join date: 14 Jun 2005
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12-27-2005 16:34
If animals aren't supposed to be eaten, why are they made out of meat ? It would be an interesting world to live in, if things that you weren't supposed to do were impossible to do. This is quite clearly not the world we live in. In fact that's the whole point of morality - getting people to not do things they might want to do otherwise. It isn't very hard to steal, it isn't even very hard to kill people. Morality is not based on the difficulty/possiblity of doing something. _____________________
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Surreal Farber
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12-27-2005 17:14
It would be an interesting world to live in, if things that you weren't supposed to do were impossible to do. This is quite clearly not the world we live in. In fact that's the whole point of morality - getting people to not do things they might want to do otherwise. It isn't very hard to steal, it isn't even very hard to kill people. Morality is not based on the difficulty/possiblity of doing something. I think all of us omnivores have just been called immoral. Does that mean that the life of a plant has less value than the life of an animal? How about my life? _____________________
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Pablo Neruda
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Join date: 30 Sep 2005
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12-27-2005 17:15
"Eat animals before they eat you."
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Cid Jacobs
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12-27-2005 17:42
Eat a person, be a person!
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Seifert Surface
Mathematician
Join date: 14 Jun 2005
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12-27-2005 17:48
I think all of us omnivores have just been called immoral. No, no. Well, that wasn't my intention. The question was originally phrased as "If animals aren't supposed to be eaten...", and "supposed to be" is a moral issue. I'm merely saying that you can't counter a moral stance that you shouldn't do something with some observation about it being possible to do that thing. I wasn't saying anything about whether or not I subscribe to the premise. For the record, I am mostly but not entirely vegetarian. Does that mean that the life of a plant has less value than the life of an animal? How about my life? _____________________
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Teeny Leviathan
Never started World War 3
Join date: 20 May 2003
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12-27-2005 17:53
In the 4.5 billion year history of Earth, humans have been around for a tiny fraction of that time. During that time, we have been able to defend ourselves from animal predators for probably only a fairly short time. The animal kingdom has had plenty of time to feast on our old, slow, young, weak and stupid. In the last few thousand years, we have turned the tables on them. Its payback now. That's what they get for eating our ancestors and being so tasty.
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