Thread: Explaining Hunting to Vegetarians and Animal People

The "holier than thou" attitude of some vegetarians is what really peeves me off - whatever happened to "live and let...hunt?"
It is always interesting to point out hypocrisy - a vegetarian will spout on about animal feelings and how they feel pain....I would hasten to point out the below:
If you leave a potato in the dark, or even plant it, the potato will grow....This tells us that it is ALIVE!!! Yet we peel it (alive), and boil it to death and proceed to eat it...
This is where the vegetarian points out that plants have no feelings....how do we know? (example below):
Acacia trees in Africa are a favourite food of elephants, yet when one is being eaten, it releases a stress pheromone to advise other acacia trees nearby to release a chemical into their sap which makes them taste bitter to elephants (thus saving them from being eaten...alive). From this, we can conclude that the acacia trees experience pain, or at the very least, a desire to live.
Who's to say that the chemical onions release (that affects our eyes) isn't in response to being cut up (alive) or feeling pain?
We are the product of evolution. Our brains have evolved and increased in size due to the consumption of animal fats (arguable that some people's brains are not evolved). To deny this, is to deny human nature and biology (and the nature of primates), the teeth and eye position has already been mentioned in a post above. If someone is capable of denying their very nature and origin, then it is plain that they are of another, lesser species and should not be so indignant when this is pointed out.