My personal take on vegetarianism is that I do it to minimise cruelty to animals, or to refrain from imposing my choices onto other animals. So I'll eat free-range eggs because they ain't fertilised and a hen's got nowt to do with an unfertilised egg once it pops out there. I'll also eat hand-milked milk because it's usually a fairly gentle and noninvasive procedure of extraction.
Logical extension of this is that it's all about consent. Thus, as with those weird german guys, in theory if someone or some animal said "hey, okay, eat me" then that would be okay and I would (if I was hungry and wanted to eat meat).
Meaning that, since the only animals I'm likely to have an understandable conversation with are human animals, the only meat that this theory allows me to eat is human meat.
I suppose you could also have conversations with angels, if they existed, so they're on the menu too, but only if they want to be.
Thus, tonight's dinner will be roast hyperevolved futurepig with mushroom gravy and garlic mashed potatoes.
i thank you. |
