Posted by: Gman5434
My view:
First thing that I would like to say is that I hate it when people think humans are interfering with nature or what humans do is 'unnatural'. We are in fact part of nature, to be clear, everything is part of natural, that is, nothing exists outside of nature. For something to be unnatural (i.e. exist outside of nature) it would have to not exist.
Humans are also in fact animals, just because we are more intelligent (although I use that word lightly since you can't necessarily quantify or objectively measure intelligence, aside from the point) than most animals on this planet doesn't make us animals any less. Some animals are omnivores, carnivores, herbivores etc. Humans just happen to be omnivores, the fact that we eat meat isn't any more adverse than the fact that lions eat gazelle. Although I do not condone the mistreatment of animals regardless of whether we decide to eat them or not.
The fact of the matter is that pre-humans in the past had to kill and hunt animals in less than 'humane' ways, now through evolution humans are still omnivores but we can also use the intelligence gained through it to eat animals in more 'humane' ways.
Agreed, people need to understand the fact that one animal eating another is simply the cycle of life.
[Edited on 12.24.2010 4:37 PM PST]