Why do we decent people prefer eating carcasses of long dead animals and decomposing fruits like ripe bananas?

Lots of tasty stuff happens with the help of... bacteria. That's right; most of your tastiest cheeses, meats and fruits taste really great when they've been left out for a little bit. This allows bacteria to partially break down our food for us and leave some "flavor compounds" for us to enjoy.

It's the big circle of life!

Well actually your anatomy is different from mine, so I guess its ok for me to eat you? WTF THere are plenty of idiots who chose to abstain from eating meat. Some do it because they anthropomorphize animals, others do it because they don't like to think about killing unnecessarily. Still others do it because of the inhumane conditions a lot of our domestic animals live in. Some have good reasons, some bad. All life is based on the same DNA chemistry as us. So what? We shouldn't eat things with DNA? *sigh* Some of us lack imagination. Some of us can only empathize with people or things similar to us. Some of us are vegetarians (or vegans) due to philosophical concerns. Some of us just get queasy. How long do you think you would last if your body stopped killing all other species present in your blood and gut? It is a competition out there. We didn't develop empathy nor reason without having the caloric diet sufficient to fuel a very very large brain. A lot of vegetarians are hypocrites. If not most.

Well most like meat and most of us can go to the store and get it' so there is no carcasses we have to cut and clean' or we would have many more vegetarians.Too ripe fruit like mushy bananas ' or soggy grapes= gross as i like my fruit ripe but not too ripe..

Well, probably because it'd be a little awkward to try and eat a cow while it's still alive.

As for vegetables and fruits...hey, if you want to eat your bananas while they're under-ripe and green, I'm not stopping you.

Because as nasty as it may sound like, eating carcasses of long dead animals are way much better than eating long dead humans. Both are flesh of meat. Humans are wise enough not to eat each other, so they eat other dead animals instead.

cows taste a lot better after they've been dead (in the right conditions) for a few weeks. In places like France, where they like their cows raw, they have to eat them straight away. I'll go with long-dead.

It's all about taste, my friend! Green bananas are gross. As for the meat, I'd summon fish to the dish if I could. I get it as fresh as I can.

erm, because we don't want to die of starvation? Uhm, because we need certain nutrients that come from certain food groups to maintain a healthy body.

Because they are tasty :)