Living Off Death, Part I

I sometimes hear people complain of all the things we eat, getting really hung up about the consumption of meat, Most are caught up in their feelings, thus not worth talking too, a few will try to reason out some kind of point-of-view. They’ll say they don’t want to be part of bringing death or pain, as if they will get virtue points for choosing to abstain, but when I think more about it the whole things falls apart, when it comes to how we survive I don’t know where to start, perhaps with a quite simple claim to which the truth attests: That every single man alive was born to live off death. Is not a farmer a killer of every crop he plants? You pull a carrot from the ground, the carrot plant is damned. Every time you cut down that wheat you risk killing the grass, and each potato you dig up bring death to the plant fast. And every piece of fruit you pluck is a tree abortion, you want to eat without killing? I say it can’t be done. Plowing a field will slaughter all the mice, and moles, and bugs, also chews up their earthly homes, all the lairs they’ve dug. Even clearing a field itself brings death on a grand scale, the trees and critters now displaced, most could not even wail; All replaced for a single plant, it’s corn supremacy! Which cannot live without man’s help, unlike the now-dead tree. Unless you’re eating salt alone I’d say it’s a fair bet, that just like every man that eats, you’re living off of death... CONCLUDES IN PART II.