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If we can digest it and gain nutrition from it, then we are meant to eat it. We didn't design ourselves.


Well, nobody designed us. We're a product of evolution. Had we been designed, and the designer was not a cruel monster, I'm sure they could have thought of a way for all beings to feed themselves without the monumental suffering that exists in the world.


Not sure many people would approve of eg eating their kids?


This is true of everything excepting contagious prions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

Luckily, scrapie doesn't seem to be infectious to humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie




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