Why humans have the right to eat whatever they like
Re: “What gives humans the right to mercilessly kill, exploit fellow animals?” Have Your Say, February 1.
Oh good grief, here we go again, ad nauseam.
Jenny Moxham appears to live by the disingenuous belief that we, human meat-eaters, are somehow immoral creatures who, while being unquestionably members of the smartest and most successful beings on Earth, are also emphatically carnivorous by nature, and thereby reserve the right to eat what we like. This has been going on since time immemorial, unless Moxham purports to know better than Darwin, anthropologists, historians, and all those other learned people who agree. What we get is the same old re-treaded uninventive thinking as an ersatz substitute for something – anything – better to do. There are, truly, none so stupid as those who wilfully refuse to accept reality.
Another thing: on a planet of 7-billion-plus human beings, universal industrial food production is an absolute imperative, whether or not you follow the natural, human instinct to eat delicious meat. Now, I am paying Moxham the undeserved compliment of not poking my nose into her dietary preferences; I would appreciate the same from her and her ilk. It would make a welcome change, but I for one am not holding my breath.
Looking forward to a mouth-watering mixed grill tonight, in the full knowledge that Moxham and her ilk wouldn’t DARE go and spout her stuff in countries where halal meat is traditionally consumed. So, no courage of conviction there, then.
Dr Frank
