Chapter 15 Nature

"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods, he can learn more than what's in the books" - George Washington Carver (Janaro & Altshuler 2017)

This statement is both true and false at he same time, using a book may allow you to learn a plant's spacial features and uses making the book more of a practical method of become a sort of "practical" naturalist. One as well can not deduce the name of an unknown plant without the assistance of a book therefore. The strengths of exploring nature to learn about it is being able to see the "big picture" and absorb every single detail that nature has to give as well as the smells, textures, tastes, sounds, and most importantly how it truly looks through your eyes. 

"Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, arrogant." - Ingrid Newkirk (Janaro & Altshuler 2017)

Eating meat is in fact not exclusively primitive in all related definitions of the word primitive as eating of plants was initially our first source of food as apes and not primitive as it requires a much higher level of knowledge and societal advancement in order to obtain and prepare, in fact not eating meat is much more of a primitive behavior as it is where we return to when times are tough. It is not barbaric either usually as that would mean causing pain to the animals we eat, the animals that we eat have no understanding of their situation nor have they ever seen a life where they had lived greater therefore their existence is scaled to such environments. Deaths in the slaughter house are usually instant targeting the brains of the creatures preventing them from experience the pain that an action would require to be "barbaric" of which eating meat causes none of. The only part that may be arrogant is the human race "farming" them, but there is no evidence that any other species or animal other than humans is afflicted by arrogance to this degree, especially when the animals involved do not understand their existence. I have seen countless films against eating meat, but I believe it is all propaganda from people who want to be right and attempt to sway the common people by showing gore and acts that people can't take emotionally such as the killing of baby chickens, seems sad but if you think about it with an educated and unemotionally swayed mind you can understand by ones self that for the baby chickens they have no negative emotions or pains about the subject as they know not of their impending death and likely never will.