What would you choose to eat?
By urbandekay
@urbandekay (18278)
January 29, 2012 12:19pm CST
If like me you don't eat meat on ethical grounds, if others depended on you remaining alive for their survival and the only way you could stay alive was to eat one of the following which would it be?
1. A still born baby
2. A freshly killed wild animal
all the best urban
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6 responses
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
29 Jan 12
I would refuse both options on every grounds, not just ethical & go on a hunger strike!
We can, actually, survive quite well without any physical food. Breathairians are experts in this. There are also aquarians & solarians. All three of these groups appear quite healthy.
Fair enough if others want to kill to eat, but I'm a stubborn bugger & there are always other options, even in this situation, which will present themselves as time goes by. 
We can, actually, survive quite well without any physical food. Breathairians are experts in this. There are also aquarians & solarians. All three of these groups appear quite healthy.
Fair enough if others want to kill to eat, but I'm a stubborn bugger & there are always other options, even in this situation, which will present themselves as time goes by. @urbandekay (18278)
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29 Jan 12
Do you think anyone has survived without food in laboratory conditions?
all the best urban
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
29 Jan 12
I wouldn't know.
Laboratory conditions are terrible & virtually devoid of any life-giving energies whatsoever. I'm not volunteering! It would be a poor test in my opinion. There are many monitored cases of individuals on these diets, many of whom are in the workforce today.
Laboratory conditions are terrible & virtually devoid of any life-giving energies whatsoever. I'm not volunteering! It would be a poor test in my opinion. There are many monitored cases of individuals on these diets, many of whom are in the workforce today.@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
30 Jan 12
Then I vote for more & better documentation! Jesus lasted a long time without food & water in the desert, as did Buddha & many other holy men (& women?). In the animal kingdom, bears hibernate, snakes hibernate & other animals do too. It seems it is possible for life as we know it to be sustained in the absence of physical food & drink.
@sid556 (30953)
• United States
28 Mar 12
Good question. I am not much of a meat eater and so it would have to be down to survival for me to choose either of those options. I am sure that I would go for the freshly killed animal. I could not bring myself to eat a stillborn baby. I'm a mom and logic tells me that the mom would be amongst us in that dire situation. I'd be grieving right along with her. I'm quite sure that I would get sick to my stomach at the very thought of eating it. Feeling a bit sick just typing this.
@urbandekay (18278)
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29 Mar 12
I wonder if such squeamishness would disappear when hunger gnaws?
all the best urban
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
31 Jan 12
I would eat the freshly killed animal. The still born baby is a human being , not an animal. It has already gone up to heaven and is alive there and besides the mother is grieving and I would not like anyone who regards life do cheaply.
@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
28 Mar 12
I have been a vegetarian in the past, but today I sometimes eat meat. If I had been in the situation you described while I was a vegetarian I would have chosen to eat the animal. I was a vegetarian because I didn't want to eat animals, but in a desperate situation like that where it is a matter of survival, I would be willing to do things that I didn't support in order to survive. I wouldn't eat the baby, because it would be cannibalism and I think that is worse than eating a animal. As a vegetarian I would try anything to avoid a situation where I had to eat an animal, but if it was absolutely neccesary to survive I would do it.
@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
29 Jan 12
The instinct for survival is very strong, so when it comes down to a choice of living or dying, all bets are off.
There are many documented instances of cannibalism happening among survivors who were in dire circumstances.
Ethics and morality are moot points when you are facing mortality. I don't think any of us can predict what we would do or not do until we are in a desperate do-or-die situation. Hopefully, we never will be.
@urbandekay (18278)
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29 Jan 12
Perhaps, but considering the question here and now, what would be your choice?
all the best urban
@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
29 Jan 12
I don't eat red meat, but in a desperate eat-or-die situation? Like I said, morals and ethics are out the window. I would have no preference. Human or animal. Or starve.
I also probably would drink my own urine to avoid thirst. Would you?
