Animals, Aren't They Just Apart of the Food Chain?

Question

Hello,
Animals eat other animals (sometimes even humans), so why can't humans eat them too?

If we are equal then aren't animals bad for eating other animals? Or is their mind inferior, thus they don't know the difference?

Answer 1

Animals hunt because they have to and they need animal protein to survive.

Humans cannot chase down prey and rip meat off with their teeth nor do we need animal protein to be healthy and survive. All animals do what they have to do to survive and since animals don't have little animal supermarkets to conveniently get their food, they must hunt and forage.

The food chain in which you speak of does not include your local supermarket chain. You want to be part of the food chain? Then please, by all means make yourself available to Alligators, lions and bears while you are hunting your own prey.

Answer 2

It's not like humans need meat to survive. Maybe when we were cave men and the only way to survive was to kill a wild animal and eat it, maybe then you would consider it part of the food chain. After all, It's survival, isn't it?... but today humans have meat handed to them already killed, cooked and whatever else. We don't need it to survive anymore, humans can get all their nutrients from a plant- based diet (it's much healthier anyway)
My feeling on the subject are that if some one wants to eat some beef or chicken they should have to go find the animals themselves, hunt it down, shoot it, skin it/ pluck it, and cook it. that's fair right?... that's part of the food chain, That's how humans did it before industrialization. and that is what other animals do, hunt and kill their own food. Honestly It probably would be a better death for the animals rather then the life they are subjected to in the meat and dairy industry. Eating food you buy at a supermarket is not part of the "food chain"

Answer 3

In theory, it is right to say that animals are parts of the food chain.

It may because of the develop of "human culture", we figure out the difference, and don't eat all the animals.

It doesn't mean that other animals are have the same "intelligence" as us.

Answer 4

The food chain is made up of natural predators.
Humans are not predators. A machine doing
the killing does not qualify us as such.


In response to Brandi's statement:
" If the good lord didn't want us to eat animals
than why did he give us the technology to
slaughter them with".

I ask: Did your same lord give people gunpowder
in order to endorse murder? Did he gives us iron
shackles in order to make people slaves?
Christians with good sense realize that no higher
power would place natural elements here with the
intention of man using them in a perverted, destructive
fashion. Some how people are able to get selective
amnesia about the " Thou shalt not kill" commandment.
Mind you, I am not trying to attack Christianity just those
who practice it part time.

Kudos to Kit Kat. I agree. Anyone wanting to be a part
of the food chain should go out and dance naked with
the wolves and challenge other species in hand to hand
combat. I also think that a fight with a lion, tiger or bear
for food wouldn't last very long if you took gun powder
away.

Answer 5

Humans can eat whatever they want, but the difference between humans and animals is that humans have evolved to the point where they can think about things other than survival. Humans think about philosophy, ethics, and morals, among other things. So this thought process allows people to consider if they choose to eat animals, because it is not necessary to survive. Animals eat to survive.

Answer 6

Humans do eat animals, as you know but they don't exist just for us to eat. They are a part of a lot of reasons to help sustain a healthy environment for all of us to live. Unfortunately, I believe, people have taken farming animals too far. We produce, eat and jail more animals than is necessary, and don't utilise the natural habitats of our own original environment. So we rely on culling them, or poisoning them to control their numbers. We have introduced species that are foreign to our natural habitat and then complain when they destroy it, and do hideous things like play golf with cane toads to eradicate them. They have a right to live a full life not to be slaughtered as babies, or ripped away from their warm mothers at birth and killed, so we can enjoy a wide variety of cheeses. Pigs are kept in cages so small they can't move around freely their entire horrible lives, do you want to support that type od cruelty? Try becoming vegetarian, and if your not totally convinced from my small section of reasoning, then look into it. What you will discover will make you think twice about eating some of the animals you do. At least animals are fairly quick at their killing and eat for one purpose, and that is not to starve.

Answer 7

Just because animals are here does not mean we should eat them. Yes, some animals eat other animals, but they can survive on vegetables. Think about giraffes eating leaves from a tree. Yes, animals do eat each other, but they usually do that because they feel threatened by other animals. Heck, animals even eat their own poop. Do we eat ours? Just because animals eat each other, doesn't mean we have to eat animals. If you killed someone that threatened you, would you eat them? NO... We should not be compared to animals! Also, even if animals are below us on the food chain, it's because we have weapons. Try fighting a lion one-on-one and see who is REALLY on the top of the food chain. It definitely is not us.

Answer 8

Yes we are all part of the chain.And humans have eaten humans. They called them 'long pigs' and put the whole exercise under a religious umbrella. In this part of the world some one wanted to overpopulate the world so they made laws against hunting your neighbour for supper. The odd peson will atempt to revert to it hopeing not to get caught, usually do and die. When animals kill humans we send out death squads to get the culprit and test the hell out of him

Answer 9

Do you see leopards setting up factory farms for gazelle production? Seems to me personally that to be completely natural meat-eaters, humans would need to hunt animals on a reasonably natural basis to be "in-sync" with the food chain.

Answer 10

Jeee Wiz people..... If we didn't eat meat, and our hunters didn't hunt.

1. More deer, elk, caribou, etc on the road. More accidents by animals.
2. Larger populations of animals such as cows and pigs, because there would be no one to butcher them. In return, they could break through the fence, and have cow pies on your front lawn. Oh not to mention 5 am drive to work, hit a cow or pig. Oops farmers responsible because he stopped sending his cows to slaughter. Big law suit. Another case of rich get richer, poorer get poorer. Farmers don't make that much money a year.

Wake up and smell the coffee. And if we are not ment to eat meat. Then why did the good Lord give us the technogly to slaughter the animals the way we do? And it is done in the most humane way!