If you are just catching up on my weblog, every couple of days I get together with my friends here on the farm and they are Carmel the lamb and Petunia the pig and Barry the Barn Cat and we are a quartet and we have been discussing lately the eating habits of humans after we learned that humans eat each one of us except for Barry.
I did some research on google.com and I asked some twitter friends and here are the conclusions that I presented today at our lunch and learn.
A long time ago humans hunted animals to eat because they were like wild animals themselves and they did this for so long that eating meat became a part of their biology which, as Barry said today, is just as much a part of them as their arm or their leg or more accurately their stomach and their intestines and they needed to eat meat and so humans grew to need it from that biological level.
What google.com told me was that now though eating meat is tied more to the psychology than the biology which means the brain and not the intestines and as it turns out breaking the habits that someone has formed on a psychological level is much harder than on a biological level because the brain is the boss of the body and tells the body what to do and what not to do and what feels good and what does not.
The brain is also the reason why humans eat some animals, like Carmel, Petunia and me, and not others, like Barry, because they have formed sentimental and cultural associations with animals like cats and dogs and puppies and my friend Jasmine the horse, although some humans eat all of those too just not the humans where I am from, which adds a whole other level of complexity to all of this.
I also found out that there are animals that eat humans and I was in my head like "oh ho, so how do you like that feeling mister human" and these animals are polar bears and lions and tigers and crocodiles and there is a famous crocodile called a Dundee and he is from the place Australia I have told you about before and all I have to say to a human is how would you like it if a Dundee came after you and ate you?
Also I learned from my friend on twitter that sometimes people eat other people and google.com told me this is called cannibalism and this is a very dark topic and we did not talk too much about that today although I do want to learn more about it and I will mention it to the group at our next lunch and learn.
Everyone today was very interested in what I had to present and Carmel was so sweet and understanding and was saying that if humans cannot fight their own biology or their own psychology then maybe they should be pitied and helped and not shamed or hated.
I am having difficulty with my thoughts on all of this because I am still trying to lead a life of heroic virtue and in my mind that means not to wish any harm on any other living thing but it is also hard when there are other living things that want to eat you.
The most surprising comment came from Petunia who said that once she had smelled bacon cooking and bacon comes from pigs and she hated herself for it but she had to admit that it smelled really good and I think she might be a pig cannibal if a cannibal can be any animal that eats the same kind of animal as what it is.
I don't know about that but what I do know is that humans should be afraid of cannibals and lions and Dundees and I think if I am to learn anything about humans, knowing what they are afraid of is a good place to start.
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