
Having Your Meat and Eating It, Too?
I do not have a problem recognizing that we are at the top of the food chain – I think that it is no more wrong for us to eat meat than it is for lions or wolves to do so.
Diana Gitig received her Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Genetics from Cornell University's Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 2001. Since then she is a freelance science writer. Diana is based in New York. Follow Diana Gitig on Twitter @dmgitig
I do not have a problem recognizing that we are at the top of the food chain – I think that it is no more wrong for us to eat meat than it is for lions or wolves to do so.
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