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In reply to the discussion: When a 9-year-old girl didn't want her goat to be slaughtered, county fair officials sent deputies.. [View all]hunter
(40,582 posts)Any humans we collect must be eaten.
It's well known across the galaxy that humans are a highly invasive species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29
I'm not being flippant here.
The sad thing about this story is that the "hard lessons of life" that used to be survival skills are entirely irrelevant here in the 21st century. Rules like this serve no purpose in a world where nobody has to kill animals to survive.
I suspect most people wouldn't eat animals if they had to kill the animals themselves and turn them into dinner. I can do that, much as my great grandmothers did, but I don't, not here in the 21st century.
My dad's family were dairy farmers, my mom's family were ranchers. I'm not a rancher or dairy farmer because my grandparents did not like taking care of cows and ran off to the cities.
Cows are a handy way of turning grass on the hillsides into protein humans can eat.
These days we have more cows than the hillsides can support so we have to grow food for them on land that could otherwise be used to feed people directly.
Healthy satisfying vegan diets have never been easier than they are now. Hell, if I want junk food I can buy veggie burgers at our local fast food places, including McDonalds. That fake meat is pretty tasty.
Our "consevatives" hate this modern world. It's very similar to their hatred of realistic sex education and birth control. They will protect the cruel irrelevant teachings of their disgusting religions and ideologies at any cost. They'll treat dangerous and unwanted pregnancies as cruel "gifts" from their cruel gods.
I'm not any kind of militant vegan, but I don't serve meat in our home except to people who expect it, all in hopes of reducing my own environmental footprint.
My wife and I have dogs. I don't expect dogs to be vegetarians. I suspect most of the kibble we feed them is made from "retired" egg laying hens.