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Although the chance of catching Kuru is based on whether the meal was already carrying it (as is the case with Mad Cow disease). People don't get Kuru just because they are eating humans.
In an untainted food supply, people could eat people without any chance of catching Kuru.
It would depend on the conditions the animals were kept in and how they were treated.
And what was put into them.
The meat and the dairy industry are linked. Once animals are no longer (pardon the pun) cash cows, they're slaughtered. Male chicks of egg laying hens are also slaughtered. There is an abundance of this on the internet... I mean they hardly send the unwanted male chicks to Butlins.
I suppose it would depend on how people look at it. They say less land and less lives are lost for a vegetarian diet than a meat eating diet. I originally went vegetarian to reduce my eco-footprint and then I started living vegan because of the animals.
But to be vegetarian and not vegan and to talk about it being wrong to kill animals, is like owning two slaves and criticising people who own ten about the wrongs of slavery.
No offense to vegetarians like... Wish it wasn't so.
Also....
About dairy.
From the Vegetarian Society who are a well respected charity in this field.
I've heard of people talking about growing meat in vats, so no animals are killed
That's a fairly compelling argument. I'd not really thought about an animals' life after they'd ceased to be productive - even animals kept in excellent conditions. Would you eat eggs from chickens you kept yourself?
It'd be like sucking on a used tampon for me.
I can understand the boycotting of the egg industry, but I can't get on board with that. Eggs are amazingly versatile as well as delicious and nutritious. I'd think it egregiously wasteful to let the eggs of chickens I was keeping go unused - especially with such a silly justification.
I am not really in to keeping 'pets'... Though I would adopt rescue animals. It's just the whole egg eating I wouldn't like, personally.
I dunno if chickens would lay many eggs if they weren't mated. I dunno what I would do with them either... Maybe me mates can have them.
As a meat eater, would you eat road kill?
If it was clean, I wouldn't have any problem with it. I wouldn't search it out though.
As someone who would be vegetarian if I brought my actions into line with my moral standing, I would.
Exactly. It depends on the circumstance. A vege would not choose to eat any meat wherever possible. But forced with the face of starvation for some reason when there is the body of a freshly killed bunny in the road? Probably.
That wasn't what I was getting at. Because obviously if you were starving to death, you'd buy meat of someone you knew tortured his animals to death if that was the only food source. But my point was that if your concern is contributing to the suffering of animals, then road kill should pose no moral problem (although obviously I understand why it would be easier to just avoid it altogether - don't want to get a taste for it after all
I normally wouldn't... Let the maggots and rats finish it off. They have a right to eat too.
It doesn't appeal to me though... I don't really like anything which resembles meat or dairy too much. Too squeamish.
I also hate people touching their eyeballs.