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As is the "but your teeth are pointy, eat a steak" argument that this is obviously a counter point to. That part isn't an amazing argument, the part about most people not currently being able to kill stuff themselves is a good point, I think people are far too disconnected from their food. Either way, the guys a bit of a twat but not an epic fail in any way.
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The ‘not being able to kill your food’ thing always raises an eyebrow with me. It’s true, I can’t trap, skin and butcher an animal. I also can’t assemble a car.
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the part about most people not currently being able to kill stuff themselves is a good point
Put me in a room with a pig and tell me to kill it or I starve and I'll have a good bash at snapping it's neck. Failing that I'm sure I could strangle it or bash it's head on the floor till it died or stamp on some of its vital organs or something.
It seems like just one step removed from the argument that vegans like to make that if you want to eat something you should be willing to slaughter it.
I'm perfectly willing, I just think there are incredibly far more humane ways to go about ending the like of an animal than me hacking at it with a knife, or snapping it's neck, or bashing its head on the floor or so on.
AlexD
M_V
We have evolved to use tools instead of teeth and collaboratively built tools at that. The argument is stupid at best.