On Fri, 18 May 2018 12:07:08 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Thu, 17 May 2018 21:35:11 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> On 5/17/2018 7:57 PM, Janet wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe you can explain why people who don't eat dead animals on
>>> ethical grounds, would want to eat plants made to look and taste like
>>> dead animal.
>>>
>> That's the mystery, Janet. We don't want to kill them but we want to
>> eat something that tastes like them. What a conundrum.
>
>Animals kill for food. It been part of the ecology of the earth
>since it's inception. Nature is designed to work this way. Empathy
>and morals have nothing to do with any of this. Humans were
>designed to eat meat and the hunting and raising of meat is what's
>responsible for our evolution into the humans we are today. It's
>what prevented our extinction and put us at the top of the food
>chain. And I appreciate being at the top of the food chain, thank
>you.

The above theory is correct for chimpanzees.