Firstly I don't have chickens, but will be rescuing some. We want to rescue them and give them a good life as pets, they lay the eggs, so they can keep the eggs.
Unless they are fertile, the hen goes broody and you let them hatch you will have nothing but a bunch of stinky ticking sulfur bombs... Hens don't 'keep' eggs in fact most abandon them within minutes of laying unless they snap into a broody cycle..
but that's exactly my point. We are herbivores, physiologically and psychologically.
You are using a false dichotomy fallacy, ignoring the 3rd possibility that we are omnivores...
You don't see lions crying after killing an animal, why does it disturb humans so much?
Again your feelings are not universal, I have no issues killing an animal for food or protection and it does not disturb me one bit... In fact I can't say I have ever shed a tear for any animal I have killed for food or protection as there is no emotional connection between me and food or a threat... I have been hunting for pretty much my entire life and have also been killing threats to my animals my entire life, in fact I just eliminated a possum last night that was stalking my coop, not a single tear shed or any regret or remorse...
Stop using the actions of other animals to justify yours. We are not lions. we are not omnivores.
Not sure where you are trying to go with this, of course we are not lions never said we were, we are not cows either... So I ask why do you insist on bringing carnivores into debate about herbivores and omnivores? No one said we are carnivores, so the comparison to carnivores is an
ignoratio elenchi fallacy...
The evidence doesn't add up.
What? The entirety of our known historical record shows humanoids being omnivores and eating both plant and animal mater, and that still holds true by a huge margin today, where over 97% of the human population is still omnivores with very few devoted plant only protein eating people, vegetarians are the exception not the rule... And that leads to a lot of evidence adding up to being omnivores with little to support for us being herbivores...
The cheapest foods are vegan. Rice, potato's, beans, lentils etc..
What does the cost of this or that type of food have to do with our biological makeup?
We grow enough food to feed everyone on earth, but some how there are still starving people. why? because it gets fed to the animals on farms. and the animals get fed to the people in the west.
Hardly, you are tossing up a red herring fallacy, our dietary choices does not equate to human starvation... In the US the reason people starve is because about 60% of all food, including meats and a higher percentage of vegetables go uneaten and into landfills, that is A LOT of food, enough to solve a lot of world hunger on it's own... Add in the waste in other countries and there is no reason anyone should go hungry...
Waste, overpopulation and economy are what cause starvation, not dietary choices...
I see this waste every single day as I have a deal with a grocery store to pick up day old or expired food that is going in the trash to feed to my animals, and there is no shortage of it, in fact I only take a small percentage of it, I could fill a pickup truck full most nights...
Either way a plant based diet is what we're built for.
You can say it again, doesn't make it true...
True omnivores don't have pets, or find other animals cute.
What is with the red herring fallicies? What does having a pet or finding an animal cute have to do with our biological digesting system?
What do you mean 'true omnivores' don't have pets? Says who? I am in fact a 'true omnivore' as I eat my fair share of plant and animal matter but I have pets as do many other people,kind of destroys your claim...
We can't digest meat very well, if you lived entirely on animal products you would have a lot of health issues
Yes, we are not carnivores and thus our diet should not consist of only meats, that is why we are omnivores...
but you can eat as much fruit as you want and you'll never get ill from it, provided it is clean and hasn't been covered in chemicals of course. Which doesn't have anything to do with the fruit itself, only the way it has been grown.
This is not true, you can in fact get sick from too much fruit especially fruits high in fiber that can cause poor mineral absorption issues and abdominal blockage issues... And if you ate a fruit only diet you would likely have health issues as well...
And if you think standing up for animals and spreading this message is propaganda then what do you call the laughing cow ads? The smiling farm animals on yoghurt packets?
propaganda : information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Based on the above definition of propaganda, yes I do believe the site you linked fits said description...
Ads featuring laughing cows are a type of anthropomorphization and in this case silly advertising, not sure where you are going with that...
What exactly do vegans gain from going against the grain and talking about these things?
There is a difference between simply being a vegans and when one takes the steps to promote and convince others to change their ways to coincide... Once you take the step and promote change with comments like cute animals or fainting at the site of blood, you are playing on emotions to promote your agenda, that is propaganda...
As for the chart, I see we are back at the 'frugivore' thing... The image appears to depict a chimpanzee set of teeth, and although a chimps diet is primarily plant matter they do in fact eat animal proteins and
they even hunt and kill monkeys to eat making them omnivores eating both animal and plant matter... If we look up the definition of frugivore, we will see that the word covers both herbivores and omnivores, and since chimps do in fact eat meat as well as other animal proteins they are thus still omnivores even if you place them in the frugivore category of omnivores as yet another red herring fallacy distraction from the topic at hand...
But, once again we are off topic as we are talking about humans not chimps, although we are similar to chimps we are not chimps and deviate in many ways from chimps but we are still both omnivores even if you try to apply another name to hide that fact...
