do you ever wonder if the cows and chickens that you abstain from eating would abstain from eating you if you were one of the best tasting foods they could eat?
i have wondered. it all came down to, does it matter? if i met someone who told me that if we were stuck on a desert island, he's go cannible and eat me, i still wouldn't feel compelled to eat him. just because someone has the potential to hurt me doesn't make it right for me to stick it to them pre-emptively. that and i definately wouldn't say that meat is the best tasting food we have around.
some cows and pigs etc... may not (if it happened) and some might like we have omnivores and vergeterians and vegans... It doesn't seem animals really have that option...unless they revolt like in Animal Farm...
Unless they were herbivores, or just didn't want to eat me for some reason, I could imagine that most of them would. That being said, they would be eating me to survive; it's not like they have the ability to rationalize and say "wait a second, this is wrong." They are most definately more likely to just go, "I'm HUNGRY and I smell MEAT!" The latter is also how a good deal of omnivores feel about meat. That's a little disappointing. Oh well ...
Being an ethical vegan I admire anyone who conscientiously chooses a philosophy of eating that transcends taste. All initial taste is acquired through upbringing and repetition in eating and not by conscience choice. I have read many accounts of survivors resorting to cannibalism to avoid death by starvation and would like to believe that I could accept my fate without such action.
if you think about, birds probably could maul a human if they wanted to. i read something interesting the other day, that even scavengers dont eat animals that die of disease, like some of us humans do..... and cows are really gentle animals i think, plus magic mushrooms grow from their poo, how could you eat anything that makes magic mushrooms!?! i think most of the animals we do eat are basically gentle creatures who drew a reallllly bad card in the game of life... most of them are herbivores anyway arent they? i cant really see a cow chasing after something to catch it, or a 300 pound pig going for a hunt, lol....
Some would, just like us, if they had our development to reason set aside from instinct ... Which does not make them less important or deserving of death to be our meals............Would you be a compassionate chicken, or would you be a stupid redneck chicken?? mmm???
