Understand that while the screams may wear the seam
Like conscious objections they were in reality
Simply a request to honor his strength and speed
With gratitude and tenderness I seared
Every single hair from his body
Gently placed his decapitated head in a stock pot
Boiled off his flesh and made a spreadable head cheese

Because I believe that one can only relate with
Another living creature by completely destroying it
I’m sure Sandor’s friends and family would appreciate this
A rationale so moronic it defies belief
Post-vegetarian I must submit to you respectfully
Be careful what kind of world you wish for
Someday it may come knocking on your door

wow, that part made me laugh. this is satire right? you became a vegetarian because of roadkill? no wonder you gave it up. and don’t get me wrong, i’m not saying you are a bad person for eating meat. you can do whatever you want. but don’t try to justify your actions by asking the spirit of whatever you are eating to bless you. that doesnt mean anything. its just posturing. eat meat because you want to. dont eat meat because you dont want to. thats really the only thing that will matter in the end

I am also interested that contributors in this thread (especially those engaged with post-vegetarian ideas) seem concerned with providing respectful and sensitive critique to others. In a post-vegetarian world it would seem that disrespectful rebuff is a relative privilege given that your flesh is up for the taking by anyone who demands it for their survival, however tenuous their claim.

people forget that it was not charles darwin but benjamin spencer who coined the notion of ’survival of the fittest.’ people latched onto this idea to justify any number of atrocities: the genocide of native americans (don’t other animals conquer?), the extermination of jews (an inferior race), eugenics (just natural selection, right?). it seems you are justifying meat eating according to this logic.

i am not saying you are a bad person. judging from your post, you seem like a compassionate, thoughtful person. but i do think you argument reads like a rationalization. the difference between humans and other animals is that humans are capable of making ethical decisions based on the information they have. it is our “nature” to make ethical decisions.

placing yourself is some pseud-mystical “circle of life” is a cop-out in my view. the honest thing would be to say: i eat meat because i want to and despite the knowledge that eating meat will contribute to the grand sum of unecessary suffering on this planet. to place yourself on the level of a wolf who needs to hunt and eat meat to survive is refusing to take responsibility for your choices.

i say this respectfully. and, of course, i could be wrong. that too is part of what it means to be human.

A point about wildlife management: The animals do not regulate themselves or their populations. So I ask a vegan, What is more cruel? To selectively take older species from the populations thereby assuring their continued existance or to completely leave the species alone until said species depletes the natural resources of their habitat and are wiped-out due to starvation?

I think an interesting case could be made that humans don’t regulate themselves either. (Pretty sad considering that we are supposed to be “intelligent”) However, murdering humans is illegal. Save for when our idiotic governments find “cause” to make war.

And Billy, wow, let’s just put “GOD”, “lettus” and your “canines” (let’s see you use those things like a wolf uses theirs) aside and discuss your little world where humans are treated so well, because that’s not the earth I live on. Maybe your attitude towards animals reflects your own species inability to act “humanely” towards itself.