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[aptsvet]

"Если Бог не хотел, чтобы мы ели животных, зачем тогда Он сделал их из мяса?"

Sara Palin
Going Rogue, p. 133

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[aptsvet.livejournal.com]

Thanks for widening my outlook, these hoofed predators are fascinating. Still, you have to give the beasts a fair shake: as someone else mentions in this discussion, men are made of meat as well, so animals have every right to treat us as food. Quoting human sacred books is unfair to wolves.

[shkrobius.livejournal.com]

>>animals have every right to treat us as food...
And they surely do. But the carnivores usually target herbivores, as this makes the food chain sustainable. By the way, one of the standard readings of the Torah (e.g, by Rashi and Maimonides) is that humans were vegetarians before the flood. The permission to eat animal flesh is in Gen. 9:2-4; it is seen as a compromise solution because of degradation of humanity and concession to its weaknesses. Maimonides says we paid for it by dramatic shortening of our lifespan, so it is fair: a life for a life.