Some Buddhists are carnivores and some are not. Our human dentition indicates that we are equipped for 'flesh tearing', as my school biology teacher used to say with relish. Well yes. I think we are also born wired to kill. Attack. Dominate. Have a baby a year and die. Could our thinking minds evolve us out of this? No. Unless we vegetarians kill all the carnivores for n generations, then kill all the killers. I guess we could sterilize instead. That would take care of population problems too, though I guess there wouldn't be one once we got rid of all the killers and carnivores........... I guess there wouldn't be anyone left.I had a dairy cow once and I know she was a sentient being. A co-worker once told me that when she was at the University of Nebraska she kept a headless chicken alive for months. She dropped dough nut crumbs and water into the chickens esophagus. She put stints in to keep the airway and esophagus open. She didn't know if the chicken still experienced anything like thought or emotion, but she said it was unquestionably a living creature. A farmer had brought it in because it wouldn't die and he thought it interesting.
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