If God did not intend us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
~ John Cleese
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I wonder what people in olden times would have said if their kids said that they weren't going to eat meat. Like if Laura Ingalls said, "Pa..." Wait. No. It would have more likely been Mary who said it. What if Mary had said, "Pa, I'm not going to eat meat anymore." I don't think Pa would have taken too kindly to that.
I'm not sure it would have even occurred to people in little houses on the prairie to not eat meat. Unless, of course, they couldn't find any meat. Like during the dust bowl. But even then they would have preferred meat and eaten it when they had the chance.
Let's go back even further. I don't think that it's a coincidence that "carnivorous" and "Tyrannosaurus" rhyme, do you? That has to mean something. And, yes, "Stegosaurus" and "herbivorous" also rhyme. Again, not a coincidence. And which would you rather be in a fight? A Tyrannosaurus who could eat a stegosaurus because he was a carnivore or a stegosaurus who could just trash the Tyrannosaurus' lawn because he was a herbivore?
That's what I thought.
