Meat-Eating Debate (Relocated Thread)

[Pyewacket]

So...animal cruelty is a recent development, say in the last 100 years?

Animal dependency leads to animal cruelty. And wars have been around forever and are not always caused by competition for resources. Many have been ideological (no, I am the king) or religious (yay, religion!).

Overpopulation is a sidebar, and a distraction. It has less to do with "eating animals" than "not eating animals" does.