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Hayley,

If I absolutely had to do it for survival, I might be able to kill

for food, but I would have to be very desperate, it would be a last

resort.

However if it was not a matter of survival, I would certainly never

go back to eating meat even if factory farming was abolished and the

animals had a good life before they were killed. I still consider the

taking of their lives other than for survival to be just as wrong as

the factory farming aspect, so I am partly in agreement with you.

 

Also I don't understand why people made such a big deal out of that

plane crash in the Andes where the survivors had to eat the dead

people, as if this was terrible. I would most likely have fewer moral

qualms than most meat-eaters about doing that (in fact since no-one

had been killed on purpose, it simply would not occur to me that

there was a moral problem at all with that type of flesh-eating),

although I wouldn't enjoy the taste, because it was a survival

situation and I don't see much difference between meat-eating and

cannibalism. If I was in a survival situation and had to choose

between eating a human who was already dead, and killing an animal to

eat, I'd definitely eat the dead human first, whoever it was.

 

When I expressed such a view on cannibalism (ie that it isn't always

necessarily wrong) on another vegetarian forum, I was called all

sorts of names, like buzzard and vulture, instead of Dove, and

treated like some sort of monster, even though I am vegan. I never

understood that. Some things certainly aren't vegan by definition,

but that does not mean that they necessarily violate the vegan ethic,

I would say.

I think what I would do makes perfect sense, and is more

compassionate, but I was challenging a taboo which people couldn't

cope with.

 

I suggested on that forum, that if some people can't give up their

flesh-eating habit, it would save animals if they just ate humans who

had died naturally, instead of continuing to kill animals. Some of

them might get diseases and die, but at least they would be only

harming themselves, as would be their civil liberty. I thought

vegetarians would like the idea of cruelty-free cannibalism for meat-

eaters, to save animals from those people who have no will-power, but

for my suggestion I was treated like a worse person than a meat-

eater! Go figure that one out.