Posted by Toph on March 3, 2005, at 21:32:41
In reply to Re: Animal Rights » Larry Hoover, posted by alexandra_k on March 3, 2005, at 20:26:03
I really don't want to step between two heavyweights here, but there's two debates going on here simultaneously, the comparative nutritional value of the two diets and the moral argument. I'm intrigued by the moral argument that you posit alex. Is it immoral for Eskimos who have virtually no access (before technology) to plant food to survive off mamalian whale meat? It strikes me as similar to the question if someone has never heard of God can they gain entrance into heaven if entry is conditional on belief in God. Are primitive cultures that are unaware of agricultural technologies immoral because eating meat is the only food source they have learned to harvest?
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