Quote Originally Posted by The Mad Arab View Post
Regardless, his argument stands. There's a difference in doing what we could and what we should, right? You might feel like stabbing someone in the face after he slept with your girlfriend, but that doesn't mean that it's an ethical thing to do, right?
Depends for which person you are speaking. But that argument makes no sense in light what I said, and stop with the ad absurdum, it's getting annoying.

You are hungry, you eat, what you eat doesn't matter. Though your lack of vitamin B and protein will take it's toll soon. Heck, if we eat too much, we get cataracts and goute. It's all about balance, don't try to escape from your instincts with human's tiny willpower, you're only fooling yourself.

Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
Pre-domestication of animals and farming, humans and their domesticated counterparts (horses, cows, sheep, dogs, etc) only made up 2% of the total Wildlife population.

Since the domestication of animals, humans and those domesticated now make up 90% of all wildlife.

Not only we benefited, so did they and in this partnership, both are good.

If everyone became vegatarian, cows/sheep/pigs will become pests, and they were be killed or driven away. Their populations would significantly reduce as humans grow in proportion. As these animals are no longer farmed, their birthrate would pummel.

In short, eating meats keeps those animals with us today.
Precisely, quid pro quo. If it benefits us that an animal may never go extinct, because we have to eat it.

Though how things have been going on today, we'll end up eliminating land for pasture and then it will become a desert. We don't need to stop killing as many animals, we need for people to die in larger quantities (light side, non-cynical answer: we need to control our population).

~Jirisys ()