By fermentedphil on Skatehive
_ It is unfortunately a fact of life: We all need to eat. If it is a 100% vegan diet, if it is a 100% lab-grown meal, if it is a meal made from almost only meat and slaughtered animals, the fact remains, that we need to eat. Being in the wild, looking at wildlife, it can sometimes be cruel to watch nature at her worst: the gulls killing shellfish in the most gruesome of manners just to open the shell so that they can also eat. They drop the shells from inhumane heights, dropping them onto rocks, breaking the shell open with their beaks... If we were to write a novel, or a screenplay about the murder of these shellfish, especially from their perspective, it would have been the worst and most gruesome of horrors. But if we can trust science (which should be taken with a grain of salt) we can rest assured that shellfish do not feel pain. There is more than enough for us all. We can live in relative harmony, but for some reason (that is, capitalism and neo-liberal politics) we cannot live