B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 13, 2010

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Good Morning, LuvH8, Grog, Ladywolf, Woodeye, Dogsniff & Everyone.

Clark I’ll go along with not eating mammals. But not eating tasty birds is too much! And a well prepared fish is deeeeeelicious!

For once you’re right Joe! I hate it when I pull carrots out of the ground and they scream in pain.

If we are not intended to eat animals why are they made out of meat?

In terms of this debate, I’m staying neutral.

Hello and good morning Big Sister, Tanya, pamlicorat, Lonewolf, Grog, Dogsniff, woodeye, and everyone else.

Just this afternoon I was wondering how much meat a typical person would eat if he had to slaughter it all himself?

I do eat meat, but try not to eat too much of it.

Wow, today’s strip is a plethora of paleontologically pleasurable information!

Australopithecus robustus was a vegetarian. He went extinct LONG ago. Humans are and always were meat eaters. It TAKES the high protein content of meat to fuel our highly developed brains! Furthermore, without our being hunters, which developed our tool making abilities, which drove our brains to evolve even further, we could NEVER have evolved into the highly intelligent animals we are.

You dumb vegetarians, feel perfectly free to follow Australopithecus robustus into extinction! The world will never miss you.

I still like B.C., but I prefer Hart’s works. No veggie burgers for me, thanks.

Good morning, Ladywolf, ♠Lonewolf♠, LuvH8 & Tanya!

When I was an undergrad, I knew everything. I was going to save the world by not eating meat. Then I entered the real world, got a real job, made real money, could afford real food.God that first steak tasted real great. Really.

PETA= People Eating Tasty Animals

It all comes down to we all live on death whether we kill animals, or we kill plants, we still kill something to eat and to live.

So carnivores and herbivores, go to your corners and partake of nourishment.

PS I’m an omnivore myself.

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Can’t anyone stop (WorldCups) and all the other one’s from spamming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have writ the so-called people in charge and so far no answer.

The ONLY thing a chicken is good for is th eat!

Very inventive…does bring up a good economic point. Man has the ability to create, invent and substitute. That is what makes free markets the natural economic reality. Bet the government didn’t need to tell our caveman friend how to build his grill, or if he could, or take part ownership. He was free to create and build, helping move mankind forward…

I watched a program on PBS last night that indicated that plants do react to activity going on around them and display extremely high levels of reaction when about to be, or being, cut.

We’ve evolved into highly intelligent animals? Prove it.

And, Yukoner…

“If tin missiles might be made out of tin, what might bubble gum be made out of?”

If I had to kill my own meat, I’d screw up my nerve and do it. As it is, I’m happy to pay other people to do it for me.

If you can convince me that a lion killing and eating a gazelle is “murder”, and a coyote eating a rabbit is “murder”, and a frog eating a fly is “murder”, and a robin eating a worm is “murder”, and a big fish eating a small one is “murder”, then maybe I’d consider humans killing and eating cows “murder”. But even then I’d probably just say “Well then, it’s murder and I’m a merry murderer…”

Life eats life.

Eat a McDonalds burger……..no animals are killed or injured in the making of their “meat”

The UN wants us all to be vegan (so they can eliminate all those flatulent cows and get rid of global warming). Makes as much sense as some of the above comments. As Dkram said above, I’m an omnivore, as are all homo sapiens.

I love steak, tacos, burgers. As well as fish and chicken. Gotta love those roasted or sauteed veggies. If we follow what everyone says we shouldn’t eat or should eat we would all die. For some that is the point.

Like it or not, we are carnivores –we need the protein from meat and it taste so good. When someone asks my favorite food, I don’t say carrots. I love meat.

Love the PETA referrence! No problem killing to eat…life eats life is so true; I’ll eat my wife even if I’m not hungry!

Ahhhh! That is a Prehistoric BBQ! Sheeshh! He should not mention about a veggie burger. Why? Because in prehistoric time, they DID NOT have any kind of vegetables. All they do are killing the Mammoth Elephant for meats to eat! They couldn’t kill the dinosaurs because they could not tear the dinosaurs’ tough skins to eat the meats anyway.

After building that barbecue, I too would eat only veggie bugers. In response to above, how do you know? Were you there? There was greenery.

It’s certainly possible to live healthily on a vegetarian (or even vegan) diet; the proteins lost can be made up in other ways. If you choose to do that, grand. I’d no more insist that somebody else MUST eat meat than I’d accept somebody else insisting that I musn’t.

Americans (and many other cultures) eat more meat than they need, and more than is good for their health. But that’s their choice. (That’s MY choice, too.)

It’s also true that large-scale livestock operations are environmentally hazardous, and it’s not limited to “flatulent cows”; over-grazing causes soil-depletion, it destroys habitat for wildlife, it uses a LOT of water. It’s also an inefficient way to convert nutrients from the soil into human food; if humans grow and eat plants, less energy and substance is lost as waste than if we feed those plants to animals and then eat the animals.

On the other hand, meat just TASTES so damm good. I’ve had enough vegetarians in the past say to me “Try this veggie-whatever. It tastes JUST LIKE meat” that I can now say “No it doesn’t” without even trying it.

Actually, we are biologically built to be omnivores (like bears) not carnivores (like lions or tigers whose teeth aren’t built to graze) nor herbivores (like cows who have can fully digest the cellulose in plants)

If you look at it, we humans have many characteristics typical of predators (i.e. carnivores/omnivores) … our eyes are forward facing giving us binocular vision that helps us judge distance better (the better to hunt with) we have canines and incisors (which help us rip and tear the meat) we do not have a bulging gut (and before you start talking about pot bellies, and beer bellies, they aren’t counted as they are a by-product of accumulating fat due to being lazy) and our appendix is rudimentary (i.e. useless) and hence we cannot digest cellulose (the main nutrient found in plants) instinctively, we are aggressive … typical of predators

Now if you look at the herbivorous animals (deer, buffalo, cows, horses etc) you will find that their eyes are placed on the side of their head, giving them a wider field of vision (by which they can spot predators easily) they also do not have any canines, and if you look at the gut, you will see that it bulges out a bit … this is because of the appendix being well developed … the appendix is used to break down cellulose (which is found in plants) to give glucose for energy … since cellulose is a complex molecule, breaking it down is not that easy … hence the large appendix

we humans do not share those characteristics. So saying that we were not meant to eat meat is scientifically wrong.

besides, you will find that meat is far more nutritious compared to vegetables … a gramme of meat will provide you with protein (important), and all the essential amino acids (very important), among other things … in fact you will need to eat more vegetables to get the same amount of nutrition that you would get from meat

also, as we cannot digest cellulose (since we really aren’t built that way), ergo, that goes to waste … so veggies don’t give you the same energy that meat would

Now I am not saying that eating just plants is bad for health, nor do I have anything against people who make a choice to not eat meat because they don’t like it (I am a really picky eater myself). Nor do I have anything against people who aren’t able to eat meat for whatever reason … my only problem is with people who act all high and mighty about being veg … people that give the argument that “we are killing animals, therefore eating meat is wrong”, or people who say, “your stomach is a graveyard since you eat dead things” … I find those remarks really insensitive and callous towards plants … plants are living too! They grow, (just like animals do), they reproduce (just like animals) they require nutrition (just like animals-the difference being that they manufacture their nutrition) and they are part of the living world. Ergo they are ALIVE! You pull a carrot out and cut it up, guess what, you have killed the whole plant! You eat the root of the carrot, ergo the rest of the plant cannot survive without the root, ergo it dies … its like plucking the heart out of an animal and leaving the rest You pluck an orange out, cut it up, and eat it, well, its dead too! Ergo you have killed it … and the seeds within it die as well as they depend on the stuff YOU ate to grow! And its not like the seeds will ever be planted in a nursery or anything … they will just be thrown out in the garbage … its like taking the placenta out of a cow, eating it and throwing the foetus within, out!

So does this mean that you won’t eat plants too? After all, it is unethical since you are killing them too (which is your own argument against non-vegetarianism) … so that just makes you a hypocrite … don’t tell people not to do something you happily do! Maybe I will listen to you if you stick to eating dirt and rock!

oh and Wildmustang1262, Vegetables were around at that time. They have been around ever since life forms became multicellular …

how do you think the mammoths survived?

I didn’t mean to imply that there is anything wrong with eating meat. But too much of it in one’s diet isn’t healthy and, to my mind, causes more killing than is necessary.

I wasn’t implying that people would stop eating meat if they had to kill there own. Just that they would think more about the amount in their diet. It’s just too easy to get a burger.

thebird55 said, “They would think more about the amount (of meat) in their diet,” “if they had to kill their own.” Tell that to a hunter who hunts for the meat. I don’t hunt nor do I care to, just sayin’.

The hunter you speak of only supplements his consumption of meat with his kills. I mean that if everyone had to slaughter all the meat in their own diet (none from other sources) they would probably come to the conclusion that they don’t need as much as they currently eat. I’m far from being anti meat. I’m saying that most of us (myself included) eat way too much of it. It’s way too convenient.

Excuse me while I go nuke some wings.

I’ve been vegetarian since the 70s but I’ve never (to my knowledge) tried to impose my lifestyle on others. I did refuse to cook meat in my kitchen but that’s my right. It’s a personal thing with me–I was raised eating meat but I disassociated the choices in the supermarket with what was in the pasture at that time. Being a lover of animals, I was unable to justify killing them. Not a sermon–just my feelings.

Wildmustang,

They couldn’t kill the dinosaurs because the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago!

Which is fortunate, because they went extinct LONG before the EPA could blame us for it and pass idiotic regulations blowing enormous amounts of government money trying in vain to preserve the dinosaurs for posterity!!!

ElDo Disc Golf,

Nice try, but the placement of human eyes is because we evolved from earlier primates who live in trees and swing from branch to branch, so they NEED binocular vision to be able to judge the distance that they have to leap! One miss there and they become the ‘Darwin Awards’ candidate for the day! However, our nearest ancestor, the chimpanzees DO catch and eat monkeys.

thebird55,

The Eskimos and other far northern peoples eat nothing but meat and survive quite nicely on it. It’s pretty hard to grow vegetables when the ground consists of permafrost!!

ElDo Disc Golf said, The placement of Human Eyes suggests we are Predators….but even Gibbons will stalk the wild Asparagus.

Euell pay for that.

Coyote, and EIDo Disc Golf,

That was good. But I wonder how many will get it.

Ankylosaurus is my favorite dinosaur. Have to say I haven’t a clue what Idricothere was, though…

(While not technically a dinosaur, I’m also quite fond of Dimetrodon.)

So the Lord blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.” (Genesis 9:1-3) –Good enough for me.