09-29-2015, 09:01 PM
(09-29-2015, 08:49 PM)Icaro Wrote: Speaking for myself, I didn't bring up the idea of indigenous people eating meat as an argument specifically (though it may have seemed that way), but rather that everything is done with reverence. I'm making the argument that once any sort of reverence or respect is gone, it makes way for what we have now. It makes sense then that restoring the sanctity of life into the collective consciousness is a step in the right direction.
OK. It's a common argument that whatever the caveman did is what we should all emulate, as though the caveman is somehow our role model.
But about that reverence, the indigenous hunter stalking the weakest deer all day, and giving thanks to her as her lifeforce drains, and gratefully using all of her body for his own survival, with No other choice, is a far cry from the modern human buying meat wrapped in plastic, from an animal who was tortured, all because s/he likes the taste, without any other good reason.
As I said in my earlier post, I think it's going backwards. We can never go back to the caveman days anyway. The world isn't the same. The planet cannot sustain it. Plus, our eyes have been opened. We simply don't need to kill animals to survive anymore.
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