Primates hunting, chimps vs bonobos

[Carrol Cox]

I don't know whether the intent of (some) posters on this thread is to
provide a nutritional basis for a vegetarian politics or not, but if so
I suspect that vegetarianism is impossible for humans on geographical
and ecological grounds (though a heavy reduction in meat consumption is
probably called for on the same grounds).

Consider the great plains. The grain grown there is mostly for animal
feed -- and that must stop. But growing grain _at all_ must stop also.
The only ecologically sound use of the great plains is for pasture.
Therefore the only food fit for human consumption that the great plains
can produce is meat from animals capable of transforming the protein
found in grass to protein available for human consumption.

There are areas of Australia which, for ecological reasons, should
produce only goats, chickens, etc.

Vegetarianism can never be a possible diet for the bulk of the human
species but remain an option only for scattered inividuals.

Carrol