Actually, the pyramidal “food chain” mentioned here is an arbitrary concept — invented by humans — that does not exist in nature. Indeed, in reality there is no “food chain” to climb at all.   Instead, nature reflects an interconnected web of mutual interdependence that mandates that all species evidence an innately understood respect for life.

With the exception of humans, in the animal kingdom, killing takes place when it is necessary, not when it isn’t … Human non-vegans, on the other hand, have adopted a lifestyle that fully violates this principle. They kill merely to satisfy their yearnings for power &/or pleasure, and they do so much to the detriment not only of their own health and the well-being of the animals they unnecessarily kill, but the Earth’s entire global ecosystem as well.

Yes, despite our lack of claws or fangs or innate carnivorous inclinations, we humans have evolved in ways that have indeed given us the ability to kill and eat other animals. Of course, just because we can do so does not justify us actually doing so. After all, “might makes right” only when that might is exercised rightly.

 

Current status of this Myth: Extirpated
Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE

 

“The idea that humans belong ‘atop the food chain’ is patently absurd – nothing more than a long promoted fallacy used to justify the senseless and cruel exploitation, abuse, confinement, murder, and consumption of animals. Your power over animals is derived from Smith & Wesson, not your intellectual or your physical superiority. And there was never any ‘climbing’ involved whatsoever; only a few clever tools invented long before your time — the arrow, the gun, the trap, the cage, and the slaughterhouse – all of them unnatural, all of them violent, all of them unjust.”~ inspired by Andrew Kirschner

Filed under: Minimizing the Myths of Meat by Scaughdt