Avis continues reading Henry Stephen Salt’s A Plea for Vegetarianism – Chapter 7 On Certain Fallacies (Myth-busing carnivore attacks on vegetarianism) “The absurd assertion so often made, that animals were ‘sent' us as food may be classed under this same head. The mere fact that we ​have been accustomed to eat flesh-food, no more proves that animals were created for this purpose than the existence of cannibalism proves that missionaries are “sent” to the South Sea Islands solely as an article of food, or the existence of slavery that black men were “sent” to be the slaves of white. In barbarous times cruel practices are originated, and afterwards are confirmed by centuries of habit, till at last, when humanity raises a protest against them, men are so blinded by custom as to attribute to God or nature that which is in reality only the result of their own vice and degradation.” Henry Steven Salt

Henry Stephen Salt’s 11 Fallacies - Carnivores Arguments Against Vegetarians

1) The Teeth

2) Vegetarianism is impossible in cold climates

3) Vegetarianism involves too much thinking about one’s food

4) Vegetarianism is bullshit (“a mere crotchet”)

5) We ought to eat meat for the sake of others

6) What should we do without leather?

7) What would become of the animals?

8) It is better for the animals themselves to live and to be killed, than not to live at all.

9) Is it right to refuse to conform to the dictates of nature?

10) The necessity of taking life

11) The scriptural argument

Digital book Henry Stephen Salt’s A Plea for Vegetarianism (there are others, easily searchable): https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/plea-for-vegetarianism.pdf

Earthing Ed’s book How to Argue With a Meat Eater (I am not an affiliate): https://www.amazon.com/s?k=how+to+argue+with+a+meat+eater&crid=DKR5MXWZSDOK&sprefix=how+to+argue+with+a+%2Caps%2C278&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_20

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