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		tomjen3 on June 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Obvious Goes Beyond Meat I don't get it, but that may be because I don't have a problem eating meat -- our emotions are not evolved to live in the world we live in now, so they shouldn't be used to derive what we should eat.

cpeterso on June 6, 2012 [–]

Our emotions are not evolved to use iPhones or modern medicine either.

Animals eat other animals because have no alternative. Humans have the knowledge, technology, and (I hope) empathy to eat without killing animals.

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