We are apex predators. For us to live, other life forms must die. Yes, there is much room for improvement but don't kid yourself. We are the big-brain humans we are because our ancestors ate a lot of animal fat. Human brains began to shrink about 20K years ago when the largest, fattiest, nutrition-rich animals were largely killed off.
"kidding myself"?
We are apex predators. For us to live, other life forms must day. Yes, there is much room for improvement but don't kid yourself. We are the big-brain humans we are because our ancestors ate a lot of animal fat. Human brains began to shrink about 20K years ago when the largest, fattiest, nutrition-rich animals were largely killed off.
Sapian Sapian eat meat. One could say the same about chickens and cattle and other domesticated animals. The real danger is to species we don't "raise" and replenish and threaten to push to extinction.
Things we raise and replenish, right or wrong, have negatives and positives. Long ago, in college, at Penn State (go lions) I gave a persuasive speech in speech class ( my proff doubted my choice of topics, but I turned out to be the only speech giver to have an immediate impact, it being fall semester). I argued to use live and cut trees for Christmas because they were farmed, gave off oxygen and collected CO2, while artificial trees are manufactured, thus giving off pollution and always ending up in land fills. Got an A. I know longer do any tree at all.
Pigs got a bad rep because refrigeration was not invented earlier.
good point ...