Well that would be rude.

I'm pretty sure eating human is illegal. Nice try though.

Its people like you that keep peoples common sense together. If there was nobody to tell them to eat a human then they would

So you care that it results in 'innocent people' being killed? Are the animals you already eat not innocent?

1) Animals USUALLY do not eat their own species. Thus, cannibalism is usually a last resort. Hell, if I were starving and the only food around was the person next to me, I'd eat the bitch! But just going out, killing a person, and eating it when there are other food sources available is idiotic. It's detrimental to the species, no matter how small the loss is. Thus why predator species hunt OTHER animals for food, and don't eat each other (displays of dominance and times of famine excluded). 2) In some countries, cat and dog are acceptable foods. So is horse. If I were in a country that served what I considered a "pet animal" as dinner, I'd try it, since in THAT country, the animal is not a pet. It is a food source. But I wouldn't grab my cat Sarah and have her for dinner, because I consider that animal a part of my family and not a food source. Hell, I eat rabbit. I love rabbit. But I eat someone else's rabbit, I don't take Mr Fluffy that I've had as a pet for four years and cook him. I go out and buy one I'm not emotionally attached to. 3) Human beings, biologically speaking, are omnivores. Our teeth are designed to tear into plant matter and meat. From a purely biological standpoint, our species is "meant" to eat both meat and vegetable matter. 4) HOWEVER. As we're the only species with such a level of self-awareness, we've evolved way past the level of other primates. Thus, we have domesticated our food sources so we no longer have to hunt and gather. Thus, we choose what we want to eat. You go on and be a vegetarian. But for Godsake, if you're going to argue against carnivores or omnivores, Boudewijn, at least come up with a logical argument.

Also, I just know someone is going to mention the whole "tigers/bulldogs eat their young" thing. Yeah. The mother usually realizes some sort of defect in the offspring and eats them. That sort of cannibalism benefits the species by getting rid of the imperfect or flawed genetic material. And as for the "innocent little animals are killed, so you should be vegetarian" argument, try to guess how many wild field animals are killed each year during the grain harvests. What is more humane? The cow that has a spike driven through its throat and dies in a few seconds, or the field mouse that's grabbed up in a combine and ripped limb from limb and then cleaned out of the blades in tiny little pieces? At least we EAT the cow...the mice and rabbits and other small animals caught in the harvest are just thrown away.

Yeah, I'd care if innocent people are killed. They're PEOPLE. I really couldn't care less if an animal was killed for food. That animal is much more useful to me as nourishment than it would be if it were to walk around in a field eating grass for the next 10-15 years.