[jambutty]

Originally Posted by polly

I think a lot depends on education, research shows that the better educated a person is the more likely they are to care about animal welfare and food quality. Basically the more knowledge you have and the more one is able to process the information the more likely you are to make a conscious decision not to exploit other creatures for your own wants.

Notice I say wants as there is no need for chicken or any other animal product. Humans can live, some would argue more healthily without any animal products.

I would like to see someone who had eaten nothing but non animal products for the whole of their 70 years of life – if they got that far.

The human being was built as an omnivore. Meaning that we eat meat, fruit and veg. You only need to look at a human’s natural teeth to see that. Crushers at the back and slicers at the front. No veg grinders although the crushers can double as grinders up to a point. And we masticate up and down not side to side like a cow or other ruminants do. Nor do we regurgitate partially chewed food to chew some more.

Even Pandas whose diet consists of just bamboo shoots will eat meat if it is offered.