#I’m sorry but as a rural girl it sends me reeling when people equate eating meat with animal cruelty

[gemini-care-barr]

As a profoundly altruistic individual who hates harm, how do you think Superman can justify not being a vegetarian? Would cruelty against animals in a world where necessity to eat meat instead of alternatives isn’t necessary?

I’m going to try not to spend too much time on this one 😅

Basically… he’s a farmer… and a scientist… and both know that eating meat =/= animal cruelty, so, yeah, I don’t think he has too much of a problem with it. Is a lion eating a gazelle animal cruelty? A wolf eating a deer? It’s just life, and a huge part of respecting life is understanding that everyone and everything lives and dies and that’s just the natural order of things. One could say Clark’s most alien feature is the fact that his super-powered nature disrupts his own ability to die and participate in this natural cycle (if we’re going off the idea that he’s immortal), but it’s this understanding and placement outside of the natural order that helps him respect it all the more and recognize that some creatures are going to eat other creatures. All that being said, he definitely advocates for careful and loving handling of livestock and does all he can to advocate against wasteful food production/usage. There’s also a slew of other economic, social, and conservationist reasons why he’d be accepting of not being a vegetarian, but I don’t want to get into it.