Surf these sites: A Thought-Experiment: The Alpha Centaurians Have Landed -- If we would object to vastly "superior" aliens invading earth and farming humans for food, then by analogy, how can we justify eating and exploiting "inferior" creatures ourselves? Are Humans Meant to Eat Meat? -- A superb short article; the definitive answer to that vexing question. "This type of reasoning... blatantly ignores a critical element of human evolution -- the aspect of choice. The arguments that ''humans are meant to eat meat'' or ''humans have always eaten meat'' are certainly no rational defenses for its continuation." BecomeVegetarian.com -- Vegetarian quotes from philosophers such as Plato and Socrates, the ethics of vegetarianism and the life of sentient beings, and a personal essay on veganism. Beyond vegetarianism, by Anders Sandberg -- Taking vegetarianism to its logical conclusion, from a transhumanist point of view... Philosophic Vegetarianism: Acting Affirmatively for Peace -- Short but erudite article explaining the ethical reasons for not eating meat, fish, eggs, or dairy products. The Taste of Depravity -- It has aptly been remarked that if animals had a conception of the Devil, he would surely have human form. Alas this is no mere rhetorical conceit.
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