DVW.CYNDI@MIT-OZ@sri-unix (11/17/82)
From: DVW.CYNDI at MIT-MC
Re: "They (intelligent life) know where they are on the food chain,
and put other species in the feed bag."
Now hold it!!
Intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with the food one eats.
I, for one, have not experienced any loss of intelligence since
becoming a vegetarian. Although, by your definition, I should have.
In fact, I would consider our species far more intelligent if we realized
that feeding grain and other vegetable matter to animals we raise for
food is a highly ineffcient way to feed a starving world.
There is a big difference between having the correct teeth with
which to eat animals, and actually eating them. (Human teeth are
marginal, anyway). And, as to this entire argument, I would find a
horse (an herbivore) far more intelligent then a chicken (which eats
bugs) or even a mink or ferret (both of which eat flesh).
True, it does take intelligence to know where one is on the food
chain. It's what you do with that knowledge that makes the
difference.
Cyndi Norman
M.I.T.