Article Summary: Humans Are The New Monsters?

Humans Are The New Monsters

Some people believe that external circumstances, such as their environment, control their life, but in reality people have more control than they think. Humans have evolved from fearing monstrous predators in their environment to being major threats to other species as well as our own. In an article on Salon.com anthropologist David E Jones argues that the image of the iconic monster, the dragon, is made up of parts of three predators that hunted our ancestors for around sixty million years. The three predators are the leopard, python, and eagle. According to Jones when our apelike ancestors left the trees and started walking on the level of those three predators they were overloaded, and the predators images became

Many people feel like they need meat to survive, and that makes them turn a blind eye to the monstrous killings of animals. It is said that we became efficient killers by watching other killers (Scientificamerican.com), but people keep enabling killing past the point where it’s necessary to survive. It’s entirely possible to eat a healthy varied diet without meat, or to buy free range meat locally. The protein and nutrients that most people fear losing when they stop eating meat can be found if foods like tofu, and in supplements. Free range meat is also an option for people who don’t want to fully give up eating meat because the animals aren’t kept in inhumanely tiny spaces before they are butchered. People have more control over the food that they need to eat in order to survive in their environments, so it’s no longer necessary to support the inhumane butchering of animals when there are lots of alternatives that still provide the nutrients that our bodies