HUMAN SHOULD ONLY EAT.....

...VEGETABLES AND FRUITS....

I am aware of the life and death situations that animals go through to become dinner, I will never eat meat again. I find strength in the good that I feel I am doing.

Why should any animal suffer and die an awfully death because YOU want to eat them?

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Plants are alive too sweetie, and must die a horrible death to feed you. It's best that you simply *not* *eat* *anything*.

Oh, you're a vegan.

Look, we humans are omnivores. It's why we are humans. If we lived entirely on vegetables and fruits, we'd still be monkeys.

Maybe so, but your body will be feeling weakness from a lack of proteins.

You are aware that animals die by the thousands in order for you to be able to eat your veggies and fruits, right?

No matter what you eat, something will have died to put that food in front of you.

I hear gravel is quite filling.

To your information plants are not animal and they don't suffer when you eat them. They simly grow up again the next year while a slaughtered whale is dead forever.

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I agree.

In rich North America, no one has to kill to eat, not even First Nations.

If whale killers need money to eat then they can make more money than the value of the whales as food by engaging in other work, such as whale-watching, ecotourism, etc.

There's a lot more money in whale watching tourism these days than in eating the whales.

More fantasy that you cannot support with facts. You continue to generalize with statements like that one, but cannot discuss the specifics.

As noted, the 3000 or so Inupiat Eskimos of Barrow depend on something like 880,000 pounds of whale meat. You won't talk about the specifics of how that is going to be replaced by some unknown source of meat.

Sure they can... And money grows on trees too.

(There are *no* trees within hundreds of miles of Barrow, and that includes your mythical money trees too.)

For people who don't depend on whales to provide food, that may be true. But tourism isn't going to replace whale meat in Kaktovik, in Nuiqsut, Barrow, Wainwright, Point Lay, Point Hope or any of the other whaling villages on the North Slope.

There are 65 bowhead whales taken per year here, and I don't know how many belugas. We're talking a total of over 2.6 million pounds of food, most of it in remote locations.

Just how do you propose to feed people???

No, you just pay somebody else to do it for you. Or do you think the meat you buy over the counter pops out of thin air?

Something has to die in order for you to eat. Period.

Yeah, but you don't produce food that way. There's a lot of meat in one minke whale. You have to kill a lot of cows, sheep, chicken and so on to make up for one minke whale.

But there's no food in it. Mind you, there's no reason we can't do both. Hunt whales in the hunting season and then take whale-lovers on whale safari's during the tourist season (I'm pretty sure there are whalers who do just that).

No, we humans are made up of 100% animal cells, just like all other animals. (I'm disregarding all the bacteria, amoebas, parasites and other passengers we have on and in our bodies, of course)

I'd like to hear where you took biology though.

Again - where the hell did you take biology?

That's your *opinion*, and you're welcome to it.

Survive and thrive are two different things.

*sigh*... (picks up teaspoon)

By 'nothing' I meant crop plants, such as carrots, nuts, wheat, and so on. Lichen and dwarf scrub might be growing just fine, but that's no good for people.

Have you ever heard of Inuit farmers? No? Why is that, do you think?

You have no face. You are far too obtuse for that.

Or perhaps despite it. Or maybe you're not being honest with me?

And how many people do you think the planet could sustain on 'ecological' farming?

No, it's not stupid. What do you think happens to a mouse when a tractor runs over it's burrow?

So do the plants you eat.

And referring to whaling as 'murdering innocent whales' shows what a nut you are.

Really. So you think six billion people suddenly deciding to grow their own food in their own little gardens will have no detrimental effect on the environment?

How large is your little garden plot, btw? How large do you think an Greenland Inuit's garden would have to be in order to sustain him /