Seventh, I understand your point about the veal, however, I'm not saying that a calve should have the right to live long enough to provide a profit as meat. I am saying that a calve should have the right to be with his mother and drink the milk that nature provided for him and him only!
Although, the fact that british people won't eat veal, I think, demonstrates my point that more people would stop eating meat or at least stop to think about where they were buying it from if they were more educated on the reality of it!
furrydog more often than not animals are not killed humanely (setting aside the point that humane and killing are direct contradictions!) but even if they were, it is the living part that is relevant... a wild animal that is hunted and killed has at least had the chance to live as nature intended!
Humans are survivors and yes, we will eat/drink whatever we need to in order to survive which is presumably the reason we first ate meat/drank milk. In todays world we do not NEED those things to survive we have many options available.
There are many examples of our resourceful ability to survive... The man lost in the wilderness who ate his dog, I don't think he continued to eat dog meat after he was rescued, having acquired a taste for it!
The man who dislocated his hip while hiking, and survived by drinking his own urine, I would imagine that he was happy never to have to do that again.
And the famous true story, documented in the film 'Alive' of the plane crash survivors who ate the flesh of the deceased passengers... As far as I'm aware none of them felt compelled to continue eating human flesh once returned to civilisation!
Yes, if it is essential to our survival we can and will eat meat and indeed anything available to us! But we are lucky to live in a world of more choice than ever before and yet we continue to exploit our fellow earthlings purely for the sake of our tastebuds!