Re: The intersections between Paganism and the Vegan way of living.
It was the cow rape comment. Non-human animals can't rape. Rape implies the ability to conceptualize consent. They can do things that our narrow minded humanness would consider looked like rape if we applied it to ourselves, but cows can't get raped. Sure, they can be the recipient of what is possibly unwanted sex, but since there's no way to conceptualize cow desire, that's a bit of a moot point too.
Except I was at work and didn't want to type "rape" 50 times and put myself on a watchlist, lol.
As for evolution and ancestry, for the past 80,000 years or so, we have evolved and adapted to find whatever calories we can in whatever environment we come from--for at least the past 10,000 of them, we've been able to domesticate many of those forms of nutrition...these two things in concert are part of what makes our cultures and part of what drives our cultural evolution as well. Heck, there are several groups of humans that have had almost entirely carnivorous diets without out problems...and I'm willing to bet that before missionaries, their spirituality and their diet had quite a bit in common. After all, one of my favorite goddesses created marine mammals from her body to feed her people...
Originally posted by Jembru
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Except I was at work and didn't want to type "rape" 50 times and put myself on a watchlist, lol.
As for evolution and ancestry, for the past 80,000 years or so, we have evolved and adapted to find whatever calories we can in whatever environment we come from--for at least the past 10,000 of them, we've been able to domesticate many of those forms of nutrition...these two things in concert are part of what makes our cultures and part of what drives our cultural evolution as well. Heck, there are several groups of humans that have had almost entirely carnivorous diets without out problems...and I'm willing to bet that before missionaries, their spirituality and their diet had quite a bit in common. After all, one of my favorite goddesses created marine mammals from her body to feed her people...
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