PETA; it's what you wrap your steak in!
PETA: It's inhumane to eat another animal.
notPETA: Animals eat other animals everywhere on the planet every second of every day.
PETA: it's ok for them, it's their nature. They don't have grocery stores or farms.
notPETA: It's in our nature to eat to. We have grocery stores and farms because we, as a race, have developed a need to support society. Farmers support society by freeing other members of society to engage in non-food rearing ventures.
PETA: animals don't have a choice. They don't know the difference between right and wrong. They eat what nature has given them.
notPETA: They have a choice. A bear is quite capable of eating blackberries, digging up wild onions etc. You say animals are smart and have feelings. i agree. And if a bear is currently eating berries from a bush, and a salmon misses its jump from the river and lands on the ground next to the bear, you think it's going to eat the fish? It has a choice, it could continue to eat the berries. In fact, it quite likely will continue to eat the berries, right after it finishes eating the fish. Why? because its food. The fish has feelings, the bear hs feelings. There's no difference between a bear eating a fish, and me eating a fish. Food is food. You have a problem with it because you have attached a misguided moral agenda to a natural and necessary part of life. Living things must eat. Period. Life feeds on life. This is necessary. You says its ok for other animals because animals see other animals as food. Thats how I see most other animals. I don't have an emotional attachment to the cow on the farm or the fish in the river. Cow = Food. Fish = Food. Snuggles = friend. Why the distinction? Because I have an emotional atttachment to Snuggles. Thats the only distinction that makes any sense. You don't eat companions, but you eat food. Raised a cow since birth, given it a name and consider it a pet? Thats a companion. you don't eat companions. Raised a cow since birth cause you need something to eat. That's not a companion, thats food.
PETA: I don't like you anymore!
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But I fully support your desire to be a vegitarian. Misguided or not.
That leaves more steak for me.