Is it not divine duty for all humans to devour animals to show who's the boss?

Question

It's so obvious. God gave us dominion over all beings to do as we please and to ensure our gluttony and comfort. Why then do some squeamish members of species homo sapiens prefer to massage sandalwood paste on a sitting bull in midst of Chandni Chowk instead of turning it into instant Prime Rib? The orient and far east are far evolved and pragmatic in this respect feeding on species that not only roam the land, air and sea but even those that remain suspended in trees or burrowed deep underground. What can the animals do? Does the chicken curse us when we grab its egg from its warm fuzzy feathers and turn it into an omellete instead of letting the egg fulfill the maternal instincts of mama chicken? Does mama cow object if her nipples are squeezed day after day and the resulting lactate fed to salivating humans instead of starving bovines? Why then worry and spare the succulent flesh of such diverse life forms when God has clearly given us dominion over them? Are vegans misled zealots?

Answer 1

Boss is he who controls. Slave is he who is controlled.
If one cannot control the urges of one's own tongue to eat flesh, bone, blood, intestines, excretory organs etc... then one is no better than a animal and is a slave. If one can control the urges of the tongue one is master.


Anyway, let us see the following article from
http://krishna.org/ctfote/cow.html.

Nutrition Without Meat
Many times the mention of vegetarianism elicits the predictable reaction, "What about protein?"

The ideas that meat has a monopoly on protein and that large amounts of protein are required for energy and strength are both myths.

Of the twenty-two amino acids, all but eight can be synthesised by the body itself, and these eight "essential amino acids" exist in abundance in nonflesh foods. Dairy products, grains, beans and nuts are all concentrated sources of protein. Cheese, peanuts and lentils, for instance, contain more protein per gram than hamburger, pork or porterhouse steak.

The primary energy source for the body is carbohydrates. Only as a last resort is the body's protein utilised for energy production. Too much protein intake actually reduces the body's energy capacity. In a series of comparative endurance tests conducted by Dr. Irving Flsher of Yale, vegetarians performed twice as well as meat-eaters. Numerous other studies have shown that a proper vegetarian diet provides more nutritional energy than meat. A study by Dr I. Iotekyo and V. Kilpani
at Brussles University showed that vegetarians were able to perform physical tasks two to three times longer than meat-eaters before exhaustion and were recovered from fatigue in one fifth the time needed by the meat-eaters.

Health and Meat Eating
The human body cannot deal with excessive animal fats in the diet. As early as 1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that ninety to ninety-seven percent of heart disease, the cause of more than half of the deaths in the United States, could be prevented
by a vegetarian diet.

Many studies have established the relationship between colon cancer and meat eating. One reason for the incidence of cancer Is the high-fat, low-fiber content of the meat-centred diet. The result is a slow transit time through the colon, allowing toxic wastes to do their
damage. Meat, while being digested, is known to generate steroid metabolites possessing carcinogenic properties.

Chemicals and Diseases in Meat
Numerous potentially hazardous chemicals, of which consumers are generally unaware, are present m meat and meat products. In their book, "Poisons In Your Body", Garry and Steven Null give an inside look at the production techniques used by corporately owned animal
producers , "The animals are kept alive and fattened by continuous administration of tranquillisers, horrnones, antibiotics and 2,700 other drugs," they write, "the process starts even before birth and continues long after death. Although these drugs will still be present in the meat when you eat it, the law does not require that they be listed on the package."

Because of the filthy, overcrowded conditions forced upon animals by the livestock industry, vast amounts of antibiotics must be used, but such rampant use of antibiotics naturally creates antibiotic-resistant
bacteria that are passed on to those who eat the meat. The US FDA estimate that penicillin and tetracycline save the meat industry $1.9 billion a year giving them sufficient reason to overlook the potential health hazards. In addition to dangerous chemicals, meat often carries
diseases from the animals themselves.

Crammed together in unclean conditions, force-fed and inhumanely treated, animals destined for slaughter contract many more diseases than they ordinarily would. Meat inspectors attempt to filter out unacceptable meats, but because of pressures from industry and lack of
sufficient time for examination, much of what passes is far less wholesome than the meat purchaser realizes.

The Hidden Cost of Meat
According to information compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture, over ninety percent of all the grain produced in America is used for feeding livestock -- cows. pigs, lambs and chickens -- that wind up on dinner tables

The process of using grain to produce meat is incredibly wasteful. Information from the USDA's Economic Research Service shows that only one pound of beef is produced for every sixteen pounds of grain consumed.

In his book "Proteins: Their Chemistry and Politics," Dr. Aaron Altshul notes that, "In terms of calorie units per acre, a diet of grains, vegetables and beans will support twenty times more people than a diet of meat.

If the earth's arable land were used primarily for the production of vegetarian foods, the planet could easily support a population of twenty billion and more.

In a report submitted to the United Nations World Food Conference (Rome, 1974), Rene Durmont, an agricultural economist at France's National Agricultural Institute, made this judgement , "The over consumption of meat by the rich means hunger for the poor."

Answer 2

That is exactly what we have done till now. As a result there are less and less Animals replaced by more and more Human populations. Some animals have already become Extinct in the process and more are being added to their numbers,day by day.
Humans not being satisfied by the above fact have now turned their wrath on themselves--look at the weapons of mass destruction. A Race brought up on a Diet of Dominion ends up doing just that so that now we see the world divided on the basis of religion, class, colour, caste etc. Not only that even within each category, there are further sub-divisions eg Catholics-Protestants, Shias-Sunnis, Blacks-Browns, Haves-Have Nots, Nuclear-Non Nuclear, Pro Americans-Anti Americans,etc. And why all this--so that people of one group in the majority/stronger can dominate over the others in the minority/weaker.
So where will all this lead to--Total Annhilation of the Human Race.
This is what your 'Bossing' over the lower animals is going to lead to for Man does not know where to stop once he begins.
Exactly, this is what the Vegans are trying to impress upon others,in their small way of Non-Violence by distancing themselves from this Orgy of Human Existence occurring all over this small planet which will finally lead to Self-Destruction of the Human Race.
Here even Humans can learn from their Animal-Bretherens who only kill for their Needs whereas we kill for our Greed.
The writing on the wall is there for all to see and change for the better to Conserve and Survive Or else we become too drunk with unbridled power to Dominate and Self-Destruct.

Answer 3

Agree....and this can go into many other areas.

Simple one is marijuana. Man has said its bad, its evil, its illegal. But if you read Genesis 1:29 it flat up says EVERY seed bearing plant on earth is for us for food. Is marijuana not a seed bearing plant?

Let alone....the largest scientific report was done last year, marijuana was found to not cause lung caner, no matter how much you intake,and they realized that the THC actually had a curing effect on the body by flushing dead cells out of the body...the same dead cells that later turn into cancers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html

Being Native Indian, I believe what YAHWEH and the land speaks to me.....for those items are what I am made from....from the Spirit of YAHWEH and the dirt of the land....I will follow those laws before any laws "man" attempts to make.

Answer 4

it was not until after the flood that god said for man to eat the animals

Answer 5

You will re-incarnate as a cow, to get the other view. Remember I told you.

Answer 6

no but its fun