[Cooker]

I think you missed the main point of my arguement. I do gives reasons that it is clearly natural for us to eat meat, but my major argument is that if it isn't human I am fairly indifferent to it. Morals and rights are human concepts that are applied to humans for the sake of a better society and they change all the time and depend greatly on what society you belong to. If there is a value to extending rights to animals, then we will probably get there, but I believe that not only is there no value, it would be a detriment to extend rights to animals, and therefore, should not be done.

Why do I care what happens to a cow? I am not a cow. No one I know is a cow. No cow is ever going to invent anything useful or cure cancer. The best thing a cow can do to advance humanity is to be eaten. That is all I need to know.

In some sense, this is supposed to be provocative, so I am pressing a bit of a radical position, but I certainly think it is reasonable.