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Originally Posted by northcrunk
Evolution is niether obvious or logical. And it is not like we can decide mentally "Hey lets evolve in this.....". There is a natural balance in the world and animals eating other animals is part of it.
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True, but we already decide evolutionary paths of other beings purely for this purpose. By most accounts, cows, chickens and pigs, in the forms they are in, would be long extinct if it wasn't for our artificial selection. Maybe we were destined to move into plant-based proteins long ago but never did.
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Originally Posted by northcrunk
So you think we should just stay where we are and not evolve any further?
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No, I'm saying that maybe we are on a different evolutionary path now. Just because we needed it in the early development of our species, doesn't mean we need it anymore. And doesn't necessarily mean that we stop evolving, just evolve along a different trajectory.
And the caveat to all of this is that eating meat is not bad or unethical. It's the way we produce it, and the insane volumes that we consume (particularly in NA) that is in question.