As we sow, so shall we reap. The connection between violence against animals and humans

Humans today don’t eat for survival. Humans today do eat for habit, “taste” or convenience.

As I quoted before:
I mean that our thinking about animals is very confused. On one hand, we claim to regard animals as members of the moral community. We claim to embrace a moral and legal obligation not to inflict “unnecessary” suffering or death on animals. We can, of course, debate the meaning of “necessity,” but whatever it means, it must rule out suffering and death imposed for reasons of human pleasure, amusement, or convenience. If it does not do so, then the exception would completely swallow the moral rule.

The problem is that 99.99% of our animal use cannot be justified by anything but human pleasure, amusement, or convenience. For example, we kill more than 12 billion land animals every year in the United States alone for food. No one maintains that it is necessary to eat animals to lead an optimally healthy lifestyle and an increasing number of mainstream health care professionals tell us that animal foods are detrimental to our health. Animal agriculture is a disaster for the environment because it involves a most inefficient use of natural resources and creates water pollution, soil erosion, and greenhouse gasses. The only justification that we have for the pain, suffering, and death that we impose on these billions of animals is that we enjoy eating animal foods, or that it is convenient to do so, or that it is just plain habit.
http://cup.columbia.edu/static/interview-gary-francione

There is NO justification for killing another human for “taste”, habit or convenience.. There is no justification for killing a cow, cat, dog, elk or any other animal for “taste”, habit or convenience. We are all consciousness. We all have the same right to live. We sow suffering and violence to the innocent sentient non-human violence; and our culture reaps violence, suffering, wars, injustices and starvation. If we want a peaceful revolution, we must stop sowing suffering and violence at our plates, at our families plates and at our society’s plates.

Humans don't eat meat for survival

 Lorr Aine,
Thank you! So glad that it gave you alot to think of and that you will look into it.
It is so wonderful with love, compassion and peace, and the more we extend it to other beings - regardless of whether it is a human, dog, cow, or other animal - the more we also transform the world, and we transform ourselves.

You asked me: "Can I ask a question? If the chips were down, the world was invaded, and the way we live our lives now was a thing of the past.......and the only way for us to survive was to eat animal, would that still be wrong??"
Would you think it was wrong to eat humans in order to survive?
I believe in nonviolence. I wouldn't kill and eat human animals, nor kill and eat nonhuman animals. This is an article I recommend on the topic of nonviolence: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/a-comment-on-violence/#.UYUj9cqiFI0

But in any instance, even persons who don't believe in this: Our current violence and slavery towards animals is inflicting unnecessary suffering and death upon them; and 99% of our population understand that inflicting unneccessary suffering and death upon animals is morally wrong. I recommend this article discussing this: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/what-michael-vick-taught-us/