merriam-webster.com defines misspoke as:<blockquote><i> to express (oneself) imperfectly or incorrectly</i></blockquote>Even you agreed that what you actually said makes no sense and is not what you meant. Given the mind-numbing train of thought you subjected us to when trying to think through your own words, I think it's pretty safe to say you misspoke.

It's okay, though. I personally do it all the time.

Yeah god forbid I actaully stick to my own theory in a single thread. Perhaps I should just change my mind with every post. I mean really, why bother thinking about any ideas over any length of time? Let's all just completely change our train of thought from post to post. That way no one will have a clue as to what the fuck is going on.

Quzah.

So eat fruit. Problem solved. Gee that was tough.

Quzah.

Well at least some one other than myself knows what the fuck is happening in this thread.

Quzah.

Most of the animals we eat would not exist in the first place if we didn't want to eat them.;)

So everything is better of existing than to have never been created? I'm afraid I must disagree.

Quzah.

What, fruit isn't a part of plants? What if that is the moral equivalent of just eating a little bit of the cow and letting it go on living as an amputee?

In case it isn't clear, I'm not taking this thread at all seriously. If I was, I would say something in agreement with the omnivore thing, and that soul doesn't enter into the whole thing. Humans are animals. I think we prove that every day. Animals have to eat. If animals have souls, then they go where they are supposed to and do what they should, whether we eat them, they die of old age, or end up sticking out of the grille of a Buick.

We as humans are supposed to be above animals, because we are rational beings...hah! War is rational? Mass consumption of natural resources while spewing pollution into our own environment is rational? I could go on, but why? We aren't even as smart *as* most animals when it comes to trying to live in balance with our world, and they eat each other all the time.

Therefore, since animals are smarter than I am anyway, who am I to try and behave differently? (back to not taking it seriously again).

Yeah...isn't eating fruit the equivalent of stealing a child?

Oh...and, before I forget...Quzah, thanks for the response redolent of sarcasm, and containing the obvious inference that you are intellectually and morally superior to the rest of us. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that being put in our places by you is both entertaining AND enlightening! :D

This is gonna be fun!

I was told by a very smart anthropologist professor that fruit co-evolved with primates as a seed-dispersal mechanism. Plants help us, we help them, and everybody's happy.

Thank you for the def. juju, it appears I misspoke after all:)

This is a good point, juju. I agree.:)

So, as man evolved in harmony with nature, before becoming civilized, we became carnivorous, and helped nature by thinning the herd.

Now that we are no longer in ecological balance with the planet, we must develop and maintain our own herds, much as we must plant our own orchards and fields of vegetables.

Again, a sort of harmony, no?