to kill or not to kill? that is the question.

[Marc]

Death occurs naturally in all ecosystems. Death actually creates more life in a natural system because all is reused and there is no waste (unlike our unnatural human systems). Death is no big deal in an ecosystem as all things eat each other and all grow from that.

But, in a man made system things get wasted constantly and bugs are killed out of prejudice of not liking a certain species for no reason other than we don't like it around us. I think that's racist (specist?) and unfair to single out certain things that we kill when its not imperative to our well-being that we do so.

I'm a vegan because I see that path as the most compassionate one to travel. I don't NEED to kill of abuse animals for my well-being. If its between a viper and my child, I'd kill the viper, but good planning and design can reduce almost all need to kill an animal.