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Originally posted by Retro
Very true, but that's a separate issue. I think they were leaning more toward the natural and logical self-preservation angle. If we did die, there's no doubt the world would probably be better off.  |
Well yeah, of course self preservation is important, but that's also why the current meat industry can't stand because it is contributing to such a huge proportion of our environmental and health problems. The gases and toxic chemicals involved with livestock farming, and the science showing us how antibiotic resistant bacterias as well as cancers are being traced to our industrial meat love is alarming.
It seems like people are more about self preservation of their taste buds than actual self preservation of the human race or the planet.
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Originally posted by MissedTheTrain
That's by peoples' own doing. At the root of it though, humans are the most valuable species on the Earth. We have the highest mental capacity and basically run the world. No other organism is capable of what we are capable of.
What species do you think are more valuable than humans?
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The same argument could have been made by dinosaurs before they went extinct. Fact of the matter is that we are a group of organisms existing on a tiny blue dot, in a tiny solar system, in a tiny galaxy amongst an infinite number of other galaxies. Part of our problems comes from the fact that we don't remember this and we fight over ourselves about who gets to own more of this tiny blue dot and who should eat who of this tiny blue dot.
If we all died, the earth will continue as it always has, with another dominant species evolving and rising within the next several thousand/million years. Having the highest mental capacity CURRENTLY means nothing when Earth years are measured in millenia, and evolution will eventually change the landscape of everything anyways.
. Say that at any food science firm and you'd be shown the door
