First of all, I want to say how despicable it is that the animal welfare activists are getting so desperate for traction that they’re willing to make mockeries of serious social movements such as combatting racism. But secondly, I want to point out how silly it is… All animals are different. They have different needs. They have different DNA. They have different diets. They are different physiologically. And yes, they even have different purposes. That’s not hate, it’s science. But it is a valid question that we can’t blame people distanced from agriculture for asking: How do we determine what animals we use for food and what animals we don’t? The question can be answered by a simple reference to an elementary science class, and, in specific, the section on food chains. Here’s a refresher course:
Just like she mentioned, humans are a part of the food chain, too. Because we are omnivores (and yes, we are omnivores!), we have the ability to be both primary and secondary consumers. This means we can eat plants and any animals that eat plants. However, because of the energy lost at each trophic level, it’s not considered natural for us to eat animals that make meals out of other animals. Humans are not tertiary consumers or apex predators. Animals that are apex predators include species like dogs and cats. Although they may be man’s best friend, dogs are actually further up than us in the food chain. However, animals like cattle, sheep, or even natural omnivores that are fed a diet of only plant-based roughages like chickens or swine, are exclusively primary consumers. That’s why we eat one type of animal and not the other. It is the undeniable physiological differences between species that determine where each falls in the food chain. If vegans want to be equal to animals, then why not choose to be equal to a lion who toys with their meat, intentionally causing it to suffer before they kill it. Sure, I’m being facetious—just because we’re different than animals, all farmers are going to agree with animal welfare activists that we shouldn’t use our place in the food chain to justify causing animals to suffer. We are physiologically designed to eat animals, but, contrary to popular belief, we are able to do that in a way that the animal lives a comfortable life and dies a painless death. But this brings up a major logic flaw in the vegan speciesism argument. By refusing to eat animals for sake of being equal with them, we would be denying that species higher up on the food chain need to eat meat to survive.
The problem with this argument is that a human’s digestive system does not have the ability to make use of all the nutrients plants provide. Ruminant livestock species such as cattle have a very intricate digestive system that is able to break down the nutrients, put them to use, then store them in their tissues. This is why meat and milk have higher quality proteins and why the vitamins and minerals available in animal products are much more bioavailable.
The truth is that this “middle man” actually has a very important job of turning the chemicals in plants into nutrients that human bodies are able to utilize. So yes, our food does get the things we need from plants, but only truly herbivorous animals have the ability to deliver it to us in a form our bodies can handle.
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