Day 2 of Turning Vegetarian

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Day 2 wasn't too bad, actually. I Did have a lot of fun at lunch when I announced to a table full of lawyers that I had decided to become a vegetarian. This came as something of a shock to them because only a week ago I had been making bold carnivorous statements such as "If it has cell walls it's not a meal." Naturally, their instincts were to try to cut my arguments to ribbons... which I attempted admirably to withstand.

One argument which was particularly tricky was what I'll call the 'natural' argument. In it's most basic form:

1. Some animals eat meat
2. Homo Sapiens evolved to eat meat
3. Acting as nature intended cannot be wrong

Conclusion: Eating meat cannot be wrong.

Perhaps I'll rebut the argument more fully in another post. Suffice it to say, digging into this gets tricky because it gets to the heart of what ethics is and how an ethical framework fits into the real world... heavy stuff.