Barry Puzzle

Monogamy and fidelity are not the same thing.

You try explaining this to most people, and you might as well be talking in Chinese. To someone who doesn’t understand Chinese, obviously. Otherwise the metaphor doesn’t work.

mightynorsegod:

Point of order. We don’t have the choice simply because we live in Western societies. We have the choice because ofevolution. BEcause our ancestors so many years ago ate meat, our brains have developed in such a way that we are biologically capable of MAKING THE DECISION. If we’d only ever eaten greens, our digestive systems wouldn’t be able to handle it, and we’d get pretty fucking sick. I think as omnivores, since we are biologically equipped to eat both vegetables and meat, we should do so. Call me a traditionalist, but I am quite happy to stick (deitarily) to the evolutionary path we’re on. But we should definitely do it more ethically, and certainly not with supermarkets. For any kind of proper, efficient, and ethical farming of meat however, we must first fundamentally shift the values our society operates on.

The argument from nature doesn’t work. If you wear clothes and live indoors or have ever used contraception, you’ve given up your rights to claim that you eat meat in the interests of evolution or nature.