In regards to eating meat

[Ali Quadir]

Chimps behave like humans when grieving
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/...0#36811790

Everyone who has or has had animals should know that the mammal brain is practically identical to human brains.. They experience our range of emotions and sensations. This isn't a surprise.. What is surprising is that people often fail to realize this. They think animals have no feelings, packets of meat devoid of those qualities we call human. Those qualities aren't human, they're mammalian it doesn't matter what we call them.

Of course they should, eating animals requires a certain perceived distance between the self and the food. It's not bad for a number of reasons. Many of these reasons are false, some are correct.

Dumber specimens of human, are easily outsmarted by smarter specimens of other mammals. And most mammals have pretty much our exact emotional structure. They can feel the full range of our emotions. They just lack our cerebral capacity and opposable thumbs.