Treblaine said:
You did. You're saying humans are more important than other animals.
And no, they're not. Animals don't have concept of importance. They do what they need to survive because it's the only way they can survive. What we do isn't the only way we can survive, and it's far from the fairest way we can. You can hate on locusts for destroying crops, but would you scream at a baby if it hurt you? No, because it doesn't know any better.
For one thing, the farmers who 'FEED ME' aren't doing it to feed me, they're doing it to earn a living, so don't even bother using that they 'FEED ME' against me. I don't tell my "nonsense" to people, unlike you I keep it to myself and let people be. This thread was asking for peoples' views on the subject so I gave my views. And when did I ever say we should only try large scale vegetable farming? I was only saying that we shouldn't farm animals. Get rid of vegetable farms completely if you want to, I don't care. I just think we should handle our meat eating how we're supposed to. How other animals do. Instead of hoarding animals into small areas for their entire lives, forcing them to adapt to fit that lifestyle, and butchering them before they get any kind of chance to live out their whole life, we should just go out and kill what we need. Like they do. That way, these animals will get a chance to actually live, instead of them being bred to die.
Swarms of them will eat the crops and reproduce because that's how they survive. It's how they're adapted to survive. It's nature. On top of that, locusts lack the intelligence to know that what they're doing is harming anything (before you use that against me, I've already said our higher intelligence doesn't make us better).
You have no idea what other animals respect human life. Not that they can be blamed if they don't, with what we do to them. But even if you are right with that, domesticated animals shouldn't even be the way they are. We've forced them to do what we want them to do, yet another act of humans' self-importance. They only possibly respect us because we've forced that into them.