> > A quick question: Do you believe that we should prevent wolves from hunting deer, or mice, (or whatever else wolves eat) because their prey is alive? If so, then how are the wolves supposed to live? I won't argue this particular point futher until I hear your thoughts on that.
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> No but they dont know any better. Humans are more evolved than anmials and we can know the difference between murder and not and we should survive on plants. Also wolves don't heard their prey and keep them in cages and stuff like that. Humans do. If you want to go out and catch deer with your own bare hands then okay that's natural but you probably just buy it in the store that is not.

Ick. I'm not even gonna touch your "humans are more evolved than animals" comment.

But wolves DO herd their prey. It's a cooperated effort. As a group, they pick off an animal from the herd, cut it off, and run it to exhaustion. They take turns running it down until they can grab it. Brutal, I know.

But (this has probably been discussed in this thread, but...) meat-eating is a necessary part of the ecosystem. Imagine you got all the wolves, to stop eating meat. The deer population would skyrocket and most of them would starve to death because there wouldn't be enough food for them all. Besides, bats and fish and birds eat bugs. Would you prefer a sudden population rise of mosquitoes just so that the l'il bloodsuckers don't have to suffer a painful death?

Life thrives on death. Even veggies are alive. And you can't prove that plants don't have their own way of feeling pain.

Sun"never seen a triple post before"dragyn.