Oddly, enough, I never had a problem with eating meat either. And I adored animals. But then, I was partially raised by a cat. My cat Sheba took a real interest in my education as a child...including hunting rabbits and birds and such. I never managed to kill anything...and, neither did she...on our hunts. I was too loud and clumsy. She despaired of me. And once brought me a live baby bunny to kill at home...only I set it free. This made Sheba actually growl at me, and she had a real look of frustration on her little furry face, because I wouldn't let her back out to recapture the little hopper. We watched it hop away, while Sheba chittered at me.
Still, I don't think we should kill animals in a frenzy of killing, either. For the so-called sport of it. So I don't hunt or fish, because I don't have to. And I don't enjoy killing at all. I kill to survive. But my dilemma comes with animals we now know are self-aware...like the whales and dolphins...and octopi. I feel some moral hesitation over killing them. And I don't feel we should now that we don't have to kill to survive.
Also, I don't think we are natural carnivores...or herbivores...I think we are opportunistic eaters. We used to eat what we could find as we traveled...a ton of leafy greens, a few handfuls of berries, nuts, slugs, eggs, fish, root veggies. That is the natural human diet and we would all be healthy on it.
But, of course, we can digest meat and we had natural sugars in fruits and honey. I believe the drive for sugar comes from how rare it was...the same as the drive for salt and fat. I doubt we had much dairy naturally...until we started keeping goats or cattle. Nor did we eat refined grains. But I bet we cooked potatoes as soon as we had fire...because we found them cooked for us after forest fires, I'd wager. And I would imagine that is where we also got our taste for bar-b-que. :grin:
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Date: 2013-06-01 09:19 pm (UTC)Still, I don't think we should kill animals in a frenzy of killing, either. For the so-called sport of it. So I don't hunt or fish, because I don't have to. And I don't enjoy killing at all. I kill to survive. But my dilemma comes with animals we now know are self-aware...like the whales and dolphins...and octopi. I feel some moral hesitation over killing them. And I don't feel we should now that we don't have to kill to survive.
Also, I don't think we are natural carnivores...or herbivores...I think we are opportunistic eaters. We used to eat what we could find as we traveled...a ton of leafy greens, a few handfuls of berries, nuts, slugs, eggs, fish, root veggies. That is the natural human diet and we would all be healthy on it.
But, of course, we can digest meat and we had natural sugars in fruits and honey. I believe the drive for sugar comes from how rare it was...the same as the drive for salt and fat. I doubt we had much dairy naturally...until we started keeping goats or cattle. Nor did we eat refined grains. But I bet we cooked potatoes as soon as we had fire...because we found them cooked for us after forest fires, I'd wager. And I would imagine that is where we also got our taste for bar-b-que. :grin: