In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

Just look at those faces! And look at how the mama is hugging the baby! (The picture is Oceania-friendly, but maybe not the article.)

Pregnant orangutan mother and child rescued at last minute from knife-bearing bounty hunters in Borneo

It is this sort of human unconsciousness that I find so hard to deal with.

The photo of the mother orangutan and child is very telling. I do not think I am anthropomorphizing when I say that the mother is not only protecting the child, but they are clinging together in mutual love (however one wants to define that). That these two have feelings beyond that of mere survival.

In applying this scenario to the use of animals for food (meat), imagine a mother cow being first, separated from her calf who is now being caged for veal, then being separated from the herd (a form of community or family) to be killed for meat. And this speaks nothing to commercial animal farming.

I cannot think this is necessary in any way.