JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - 'THE THING ABOUT MEAT EATERS IS THAT...' PART 1.

 

'The deliberate taking of life, or, more graphically stated, the killing of a person or other primate, by an apparently sane person, requires a potent, even if not necessarily logical justification. 

Normally it is one based on the premis of 'them not being like us', where 'them' can be perceived as 'the enemy', 'the bad guys' 'those of the wrong religion or ethnic group or nationality.'  

Or, where it pertains to animals produced for human consumption, 'that they arenot capable of feeling pain and perceiving death like humans do, and therefore their lives worth less.''

So, what is 'this thing about meat eaters'? Is it not the case that eating meat providers the people who eat it, with necessary protein to promote all the functions which protein performs in the chemical and electrical autonomous organic system which each human's body is? 

Surely, no logical person can take issue with the critical nature of protein in the healthy functioning of our bodies? 

Can they; should they make such a challenge? Well, I would contend that a minority probably would do so.  

However, for the majority of people who, for themselves, eschew eating meat, and for others, might be given to active opposition and quiet or passive disdain of meat eaters. The value of protein in the health functioning of our bodies is not in question.

Why, then, would, and do the non-meat eaters among us perceive us as being beyond the pale, as it were? 

Well, I guess that you could say, and in this I do include myself, that us meat eaters are complicit in the breeding, rearing and slaughtering of millions of animals. 

Just so that we can continue to be provided  with our preferred kind of protein.  

That which we only acquire from the flesh of animals which are killed for the purpose of supplying our increasing demand for animal meat. To maintain and promote our questionable socialised addiction to eating the flesh of our fellow living species.

Yes, herein lies the opposition of the non-meat eaters to our predilection to eating meat. It is not protein eating or consumption that the NMEs are opposed to.  

But rather the apparent questionable morality, ethics, self-abasement, brutality and environmental destructiveness involved in farming and killing animals on an industrial scale.

And so it is that, there is this 'demand and supply thing about us meat eaters.' 

To be continued!