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I personally don't think human beings should feel guilty about their place on the food chain. Every animal strives to reach the highest point on said chain that they can, including sharks and big cats, who don't mind eating a bit of long pork every now and then of course.
We are not physiologically designed to be vegetarians. For starters our gut and our teeth don't particularly like it. We need more protien in our diet than a person in their normal course of life can achieve by eating just vegetarian options. Of course, thanks to advances in food production, we can suppliment a vegetarian diet so that we can be healthy, but at what expense?
There are pros and cons to all diet choices and when it comes down to it, individual health is the least of them as far as the rest of the world goes, but we cater for each other because that's the way our society works.
No one judges the lion when he eats an antelope because he's just doing what comes naturally. Why judge a human for doing what comes naturally?
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