Define a "Food Animal"

[Mr Moron]

Anything that isn’t sentient, this seems to be the vast majority of life forms on earth. Excluding (maybe) just a handful of the higher primates.

 

[Gladi]

Anything that isn’t sentient, this seems to be the vast majority of life forms on earth. Excluding (maybe) just a handful of the higher primates.

Bright day
You mean sapient and not sentient, surely?

 

[skadistic]

Crawfish:
Little lobster or Giant shimp?

 

[Oruc]

any animal could be a food animal, except humans

 

[mdwh]

Anything that isn’t sentient, this seems to be the vast majority of life forms on earth. Excluding (maybe) just a handful of the higher primates.

Does this mean you don't believe in any form of animal rights (except for the higher primates)?

 

[Evil Tyrant]

Any animal except humans.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

My particular opinion is informed by Islam. Islam forbids the eating of any carnivore or coprophage (i.e. poop-eater), as well as pig (which is a coprophage anyway). It's a good rule.

 

[Mr Moron]

Does this mean you don't believe in any form of animal rights (except for the higher primates)?

More or Less. I can't see a point in granting rights to things that don't really have an existance as we know it. Without Sentience there is nothing there to grant rights. If I was the superstitious type I'd say they have no "Soul".

 

[Perfection]

It's a good rule.

Why do you say that?

 

[Gladi]

My particular opinion is informed by Islam. Islam forbids the eating of any carnivore or coprophage (i.e. poop-eater), as well as pig (which is a coprophage anyway). It's a good rule.

Bright day?
Really all those? So no rabbits or cows? And pig is not coprophage.

 

[TheDervish]

No animals should be eaten. It's disrespectful and cruel to eat a living organism.

The "organism" isn't alive when someone is eating it. Wow, way to paint us vegetarians in a confused point of view

 

[ComradeDavo]

it is when you think about it from the pigs point of view.
however; i think about it from the Rasher Sandwich consumers
point of view.

By that logic you would also eat humans.

 

[MrCynical]

The "organism" isn't alive when someone is eating it. Wow, way to paint us vegetarians in a confused point of view

In any case vegetables are just as much living organisms as animals are. Where are the campaigners for plant rights?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

If I can eat it, it is a food as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Gladi]

The "organism" isn't alive when someone is eating it. Wow, way to paint us vegetarians in a confused point of view

Actually plant life due to its diffuse state can survive dismemberment and is generally alive until heat-processed or eaten...

 

[Tycoon101]

The "organism" isn't alive when someone is eating it. Wow, way to paint us vegetarians in a confused point of view

Well... Perhaps that was on purpose.



But I think that I meant that vegetarians wouldn't want to eat an animal that was alive at one time.

 

[jimbob27]

In any case vegetables are just as much living organisms as animals are. Where are the campaigners for plant rights?

well I went to college with a girl who was a fruitarian. They only eat parts which have fallen off a plant, and won't kill the plant itself to eat it.

She wasn't too happy when I told her eating fruit and seeds and stuff was the equivalent of eating fetuses.

 

[Norlamand]

Anything that tastes good and goes well with a good beer.

 

[Mr Moron]

well I went to college with a girl who was a fruitarian. They only eat parts which have fallen off a plant, and won't kill the plant itself to eat it.

She wasn't too happy when I told her eating fruit and seeds and stuff was the equivalent of eating fetuses.

Maybe she should try out being a 5th level vegan, doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow! Still though I just have a very hard time understanding all this cocern for these lesser life forms, whats next refusing anti-biotics because the infection has all the same rights a person does?

How the heck would you even get proper nutrition has fruitarian (or whatever comes after that when fruitarian isn't non-descructive enough?) seems very difficult.

 

[Narz]

well I went to college with a girl who was a fruitarian. They only eat parts which have fallen off a plant, and won't kill the plant itself to eat it.

She wasn't too happy when I told her eating fruit and seeds and stuff was the equivalent of eating fetuses.

That's a poor analogy. Biologically speaking the fruit tree "wants" you to eat it's fruit (and spit or sh!t out the seeds), that is it's strategy of procreation.

By the way, I lived with a dude who was fruitarian for a few months. It's a bit extreme but possible to pull off (at least for a few decades).