Animals eat each other. Why is it that we humans would not do this?

Question

Animals eat each other. Throughout history and today why would we as humans not do this ?

Please give your reasons x

Answer 1

Too bad you didn't meet Jeffrey Dahmer 15 years ago.

Answer 2

The Srimad Bhagavatam declare:
"Those who are devoid of hands are prey for those who have hands; those devoid of legs are prey for the four-legged. The weak are the subsistence of the strong, and the general rule holds that one living being is food for another".
PURPORT
A systematic law of subsistence in the struggle for existence is there by the supreme will, and there is no escape for anyone by any amount of planning. The living beings who have come to the material world against the will of the Supreme Being are under the control of a supreme power called mäyä-sakti(the external illusory energy), the deputed agent of the Lord, and this daivi mäyä is meant to pinch the conditioned souls by threefold miseries, one of which is explained here in this verse: the weak are the subsistence of the strong. No one is strong enough to protect himself from the onslaught of a stronger, and by the will of the Lord there are systematic categories of the weak, the stronger and the strongest. There is nothing to be lamented if a tiger eats a weaker animal, including a man, because that is the law of the Supreme Lord. But although the law states that a human being must subsist on another living being, there is the law of good sense also, for the human being is meant to obey the laws of the scriptures. This is impossible for other animals. The human being is meant for self-realization, and for that purpose he is not to eat anything which is not first offered to the Lord. The Lord accepts from His devotee all kinds of food preparations made of vegetables, fruits, leaves and grains. Fruits, leaves and milk in different varieties can be offered to the Lord, and after the Lord accepts the foodstuff, the devotee can partake of the food, by which all suffering in the struggle for existence will be gradually mitigated.

Answer 3

As pointed out above very few animals eat their own kind but apart from that, why would you want to?

We may have lost a lot through the processes of progress but one thing we have gained is civilization. If you don't have to eat each other to survive then do the kind thing and don't.

Answer 4

why would we want to the key part of your question is the use of the world animals and where not animals where human being and we don't eat each other- unless where stuck on a snow top mountain with out any food then by all means chow down. lol

Answer 5

Okay so we have greater intelligence than other animals, but we're still animals all the same, and we being omnivores (meat and vegetable eaters) eat lesser animals than ourselves, just as other carnivorous and omnivorous animals do. Disregarding cannibal races, depraved individuals like Jeffrey Darma or in cases of extreme necessity. Death camp prisoners for example, can turn cannibal in order to survive, but other than that animals generally, do not eat their own kind..

Answer 6

Some humans are cannibals. Native tribes of Papua New Guinea as well as some countries in South America have ritualistic customs of eating their enemies captured and killed in war.

In more developed countries, humans do prey upon each other in commercial competitive arenas. However, this is not cannibalism.

Answer 7

Most animals do not eat their own kind. Where they do it is often out of necessity.
We've developed a huge array of alternative foods so it's not necessary.
Yup, I'm sure there are a few weird species that do but the vast majority are like us in terms of avoiding cannibalism!

Answer 8

I know it is heard to believe but there was a plane crash and because the survivors were hungry they ate the dead passengers. It also happened in the American civil war people will eat each other if they are hungry.
I am sorry if that fact upsets you but it is a true fact. A film was made about both the plane and the civil war.You did want to know.

Answer 9

Animals haven' t got supermarkets like humans where to buy food, nor nutritional advisers to tell them to turn vegeterians for healthy reasons so to survive some of them have to eat each other.

Answer 10

Because we're not animals! Because we believe that human life is sacred and that we possess a soul (although, personally, I believe animals have souls too). Because it is in our culture to be horrified even at the thought of killing other humans, let alone eating them!

Answer 11

We do eat other animals and most animals or not cannibals an a human is an animal also/