Meat and evolution

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By cleaning up our own conscience (in the knowledge that a vegan diet is safe), our eating habits can accord with plant-based living, both for healthy pleasure and for reasons of survival.

It has been shown that humans have no reason to keep and kill animals for food, other than for reasons of convenience. In having discovered that, we make a unique step forward; for the first time in history we can say that all animal farming is unnecessary especially because it is unethical. If there is no reason to continue it then we can add the further reason, that the environment would also greatly benefit.

Without having to provide food for all the millions of captive ‘food’ animals, fertile land could produce crops for humans, and deforested lands could be returned to tree cover. In addition, the methane produced by ruminants would be eliminated and waterways would no longer become polluted by effluent run-off.

By lifting these dead weights from ourselves we can better help to restore so much of our world from the damage that previous and present generations have inflicted. By merely changing daily eating habits we can save our planet, and into the bargain save our very souls!

For those who’ve become vegans, there’s a sense of relief. The body feels lighter, the mind sharper and the conscience calmer. But there still exist arguments for not changing, held by people who are still locked into the ‘conventional’ diet.

They will say that animal protein has been used for feeding humans since time out of mind. That we are what we eat! That every advancement of the human brain is down to there being meat in the diet.

            But has the human race ‘advanced’ or been ‘held back’ by its much heralded, meat-fuelled brainpower? Has it achieved everything it can achieve or is it yet to reach its true potential? If we are proud of our amazing artistic and scientific endeavours, then aren’t we also ashamed of our amazing warfare and violence? I doubt if a veggy diet will crush our creativity or deaden our artistic spirit, but I wonder whether, if the world has come this far, that it is still making true progress, enough to justify complaissancy.

            Many ‘thinking people’ today see the writing on the wall; that where humans have used violence, we have always fallen into chaos. If violating animals is normal and the meat diet is normal, then it may be that our diet, and the necessary condoning of animal cruelty, is responsible for our violation of the human body, which in turn is bringing us close to our own self-destruction.