Ideally, we should all be vegetarians (I tried before and lasted a long hard week. I can’t because I love food and crave the taste of meat).
Back to my original point, I make this rather blasphemous statement as:

1) It’s quite cruel to end another life just so we can eat. It’s not even a necessity to sustain ourselves – we can be well fed and healthy through a vegetarian diet. It’s just a little more difficult to get right and requires a bit of training.
Imagine if, in a parallel universe, humans were reared as food to the dominant species (giant pigs?). Now that would be wrong?
2) The production of meat is a massive drain on the earth’s resources. There is a huge amount of energy that goes into raising animals and this is generally taken from the earth’s (finite) natural resources.
3) Livestock fart a lot and the methane produced is a very potent greenhouse gas that damages the ozone layer.

I know it can be argued as nature’s way’ -  but wasn’t nature determined a long time ago where predators won the race? Now we’re a supposedly a civilised race, can’t we shape the next chapter?

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