If people are animals, is eating animals cannibalism?

[AngryCarl3]

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In case some of you are concerned, I'm not about to turn vegetarian. I likes me meat. However there are some interesting issues at play. I'd eat a cow or a pig but not a dog or a cat. Yet a pig is basically just a smarter breed of dog.

[FreyaRed]

Probably that dirty ice asteroid that hit Hadean earth 4,1 billion years ago contained frozen cannibal cells.
We are the children of the stars and eating each other is our heritage

[XXblack88]

If your eating human meat it's cannibalism eating pork, beef etc isn't cannibalism it's being a carnivore.

[XXblack88]

thanks for mho.
I wouldn't eat a pet either

[AviatorTom]

Cannibalism is eating the same species. Mother Nature has designed animals to eat other animals. Lions eat antelopes, for example. That's not cannibalism.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Xper 6, age 66.

Clearly, that explains your demonic question.

[AI Opinion]

Eating animals is not considered cannibalism. Cannibalism means one species eating members of its own species, like humans eating humans or a lion eating a lion. Humans are animals, but we are a different species from cows, chickens, or fish.

I remember eating horse sashimi in Japan once 🐎, unusual for me, but still not cannibalism, just a cultural difference in what counts as food.

[Nikki1989]

Cannibalism is specifically defined as intraspecific predation. This means an organism eating a member of its species.

[Unycorn]

Kind of...

But some apes do the same... are hunt and eat apes also.

[Phoenix98]

cannibalism is the act of eating your own species it's only cannibalism if you eat other humans.

[FunkyMonkee]

No, that's to do with eating your own kind. If a tiger ate another tiger, that'd be cannibalism.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

No, cannibalism is specifically when you eat the same species as yourself.

[exitseven]

if a tiger eats another tiger it is cannibalism. If a person eats a tiger it is dinner/

[qwerty2469]

Cannibalism is at the species level and animal is at the kingdom level. Question is stupid and you are stupid for asking

[Kaneki05]

Not unless human is in your animal diet

[NathanDavis]

people are not animals...

humans are

[Kelly6]

@AngryCarl3 Thats not what cannibalism mean

[Kelly6]

@AngryCarl3
Eating same animal as you is cannibal