A reason for vegetarianism: animal death.

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I like meat and pizza but I don't think I'd like that.
Call me traditional but a hamburger crust is outside of my frame of reference.

Then why hasn't the Malthus Doom overtaken us?

ruveyn

What about carniverous plants?

Mostly, because humans can increase their own carrying capacity with new agricultural technology. Although, the so-called "Malthus Doom" actually has happened in certain areas, you just need to look at how many people are starving in some African countries.

Exactly. Malthus never considered the possibility that human action, particularly technology could increase the carrying capacity of the planet substantially. Keep in mind when Malthus lived. In his day gee whiz bang technology was just barely getting started.

So far the human race has produced food and sustanence at the same or greater pace than the population has grown.

In the very, very, very long run Malthus is right, but we haven't got there, just yet.

ruveyn

some of those African countries have had unreasonably long droughts that destroyed their ability to make crops sufficient for their population.

The climate change we are experiencing is expected to create more rainfall and produce more farmland.
I read somewhere that fish stocks in the oceans are being renewed, fish jumping into fishermen's boats sort of thing.
Guess I'm an optimist.

Sushi anyone?

Animals in the wild eat other animals in order to survive. Many humans, on the other hand, eat animals for reasons other than survival, such as taste and pleasure. It is okay for wild animals to eat other animals because they must do so to live. Man has been given free will, something animals hasn't.


Even the religions tell us to be vegetarian, not to eat unclean meat:

Genesis 9:3-4
“Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.”

Genesis 9:4
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Genesis 1:30
"And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food. And it was so."

Romans 14:21
"It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble."

Animals also have free will but also kill to eat and to avoid being eaten we ourselves are animals believe it or not whatever your religion dictates so we can eat meat meat when we want to in developed countries its more of a comfort food but in less developed nations and tribal communities there comes situations it is a necessaty for survival due to lack of ability to cultivate crops. Better to eat meat when your stranded and no edible vegetation is around than to starve to death.

Actually Albert Einstein was vegetarian!
And Hitler was meat eater!

Which one do you want to be like?

GO VEGGIE! xD

That is why Orthodox Jews soak and salt their meat seven times, to get all the blood out.

ruveyn

I'm an atheist so I'm not interested in eating what a fictional book (at least to me) tells me to.

I'll eat what I choose and what I like the taste of regardless of what others think and you are all free to do the same even if it's not the same stuff I would eat.

Are we free to eat other humans?

In New Guinea you are hehe.Also some early pioneers in North America like the Donner Party did in order to survive they had to resort to eating their own dead.

Or if your plane crashes in the mountains.Kuru could be a problem if you do it to much