You Are Not a Lion.

If humans aren’t meant to eat meat, why do animals eat other animals? A question I often get asked. Although the question is bizarre (just replace the word humans by the word butterflies or koalas, and you’ll see why), this would be my answer:

Animals that eat other animals are carnivores that don’t have another choice than to follow their instinct – unlike free-willed humans. The lion instinctively hunts zebras to survive. It can’t peel bananas, nor can its digestive system process them.

As animal activist Gary Yourofsky once explained to a cliché-spewing i24 reporter who taught she pushed him into a corner with the predictable human-lion analogy: “I notice you have clothes on, and that you have a cell phone and a computer. It is unfair to pick one thing that lions do that you want to mimic, when you don’t want to mimic anything else they do. When lions walk up and greet each other, they sniff each other’s ass. When I came in this room, you did not kneel down and sniff my ass. Lions sometimes kill their young when they’re runts. If human beings killed their baby because they didn’t want him, we would arrest them and charge them with murder. Could you go to a courtroom and say “Hey but, your honour, lions kill their babies”?

The point is clear: you’re not a lion. You’re a herbivore – albeit a self-denying one. Our physiology, anatomy and even psychology clearly demonstrate this. There is no child in the world that would not be traumatised by the sight of slaughter. Unlike the lion, eating animal protein makes you ill. Sciencists have associated it with digestive and reproductive cancers, dementia, MS, and multiple other pathologies. If a species is carnivorous, all members are, without exception. There are no vegan lions, but there are millions of vegan, thriving humans.

If you are interested in more proofs that humans shoudn’t eat like lions, and aren’t afraid to have your deeply engrained beliefs challenged, I recommend watching ‘What The Health’ and ‘The Game Changers’, both oh which are available on Netflix.