Vegan answer to 'Humans are at top of the food chain'

Quote: "but i did not fight my wy to the top of the food chain to be a vegan i think its fine if you are"

Humans having the body of an herbivore [see footnote 1], animal products being bad for us [2], and us having not nutritional need at all for animal products [3], claiming that we are at the “top of the Food chain” is an erroneous statement. Just like the gorillas, cows and horses and many other animals we are herbivores. Just like cows, we can eat meat, however it is not good for our body, and not good for us spiritually [4].

We can’t look at other species, and justify our behavior, just because there are predators that hurt and kill other beings. There are many behaviors that some predators do that we would never justify, and if we use this methodology almost any human behavior can be justified. Put a small bunny in the same room as a small child. She will not try to hurt and kill the bunny. Hurting and killing other sentient beings is something that is contradictory to our inner nature, our loving, compassionate and nonviolent nature; and is something that is only learnt by the indoctrination of our culture, which has reduced animals to being commodities. Doing this as a regular habit, we disconnect ourselves to the animals, and we lose some of our capacity to understand that it is wrong to take the life of another being - who is consciousness just like us. Just because they have been given another body than us, doesn't mean that there is any essential difference. This is also discussed in the wonderful book World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle [4]. If you visited a slaughterhouse you would see that the animals don’t want to die and that they suffer tremendously when someone is taking their precious life.

Footnotes:
1.http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html and http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall/030700pumeatinthehumandiet.htm [I don't agree With everything in this article, but it contains good facts about human anatomy];
See also this video: Nathaniel Dominy PhD. and the True Human Diet.
 2. http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/ ;3. http://www.drmcdougall.com/ ; http://www.forksoverknives.com/
4. www.worldpeacediet.org  ; good lecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PkQrJZYZN4&NR=1&feature=endscreen

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• Jan Vilse Ah, "nature's food chain". People resign any ability to critically question human actions, and this intellectual and moral passivity -- the attitude of "this is just how things are" -- they try to disguise by presenting it as some kind of pre-assigned natural law or order.
• Sarah K. Woodcock Jan Vilse, humans using nonhumans for food is "nature's food chain" just like whites using blacks for slaves is "nature's slave chain" -- it is right...because it is right. Right?