If animals can why can't we?

I totally agree. People need to realize diversity in beliefs is what makes the world the productive and interesting place it is. If all people thought the exact same way, we would not have come as far as we have. It's fine for people to be passionate about their own beliefs and communicate them when the opportunity arises, but they can do this without berating or belittling others around them. Some people are so fanatical about their beliefs that they think EVERYBODY should believe what they do, but you can disagree with the beliefs of others and still have love and respect for them. It's like the difference in various religions. Accept you have your opinions and others have theirs. Live and let live.

The human animal is seriously confused.

We're a messed up race. We wage wars, torture each other, play mind games with one another, do things that are completely irrational, we can deny evidence that our senses present us with and are really quite unreliable and unpredictable. We resemble chimps in a way, who wage wars on neighbouring families for apperently no reason and can be incredibly vicious in doing so. But humans have a unique ability to weigh up pros and cons and are moral agents - we are responsible for our choices.

There are some other strange things I've noticed. We're not evolving anymore (at least not in the West) but we're getting taler and our heads are getting bigger. People are saying that within a century, natural births will not be possible - how weird is that? We're starting to look more and more like the Greys!!! Perhaps we're the genetic experiment of some far away race. We're one of the best mammals at swimming, have the strange urge to fly and sing, have a mixture of omnivorous and herbivorous bodily traits and seem rather flawed. We're so unlike all other animals and our sudden appearence is still a tad confusing.

Just a side note, not an answer. Many omnivores eat the herbivores. I've been both, veggie for about 12 years, and now back on the meat...yet never ate a human herbivore so maybe I'm still okay on the maturity level :)

If you hate some one or some thing most likely you are afraid of it, it applied to meat eater and vegetarian, usually meat eater animal will eat vegetable eater animal, it start from there. The vegetarian think that those who eat meat is crual, and those who eat meat do not like what they think, actually God created plants and animals for human being, you choose what you are going to do with it.

In the animal kingdom, the meat-eaters *love* the vegetarians! Maybe the feeling is not reciprocated.

Animals live on instinct alone, but we humans worry about what other humans are doing, thinking, etc. And we're usually critical of other humans who don't do things the way we do.

Actually animals don't live in peace as you call it... they eat and kill each other all the time including animals from the same species (territorial fights). What they don't have are moral arguments and feelings of superiority about what they eat or don't eat.

add: animals in the wild who do not conform to what is "normal" don't last very long.

Ignorance.

because we should know better, and the BIGGEST point in my opinion is the way we raise them to be killed, and how in humanly we do it, the hormones, the living conditions. i mean, in most places they dont even have room to walk around or be free, thats so not cool. if he were still hunters, then id prob eat meat, it would be more fair. also its like slaves back in the 1700s, they were shiped in boats stacked on top of one another, that wasnt right, so why is doing that to animals right, what makes us better? and we didnt even kill the slaves, and we realise it was wrong.

my friend and co-worker is an avid paleoanthropologist in his spare time. he recently read evidence that humans did not eat meat until ~1.7Mya. The evolutionary changes in parasites common to humans, dogs, cats and something else (i cant recall) show a common ancestor at that time. so how were humans originally omnivores again?