Aren humans omnivores?
You may choose to say, “I hear what you’re saying, and I used to feel that way, too. But then I realized that in all other aspects of our lives, we don’t rely on the law of the jungle, the idea that ?might makes right,’ to determine our moral values. Wouldn’t you agree that we should have laws to protect dogs and cats from being abused?” Once you get their assent on that point, you can point out that farmed animals have no legal protection, that what happens to them would be illegal if they were dogs or cats, and move on, perhaps, to say something like, “Like you, I don’t support murder, even though animals do fight territorial battles to the death. And no ethical person endorses rape, even though some animals rape as a method of procreation. As humans, we have the ability to be kind, rather than cruel. And of course, there is nothing natural about factory farming; these places are about as unnatural as you can get?mass cruelty, mass abuse, mass torture. Chickens are bred and drugged t
