Well, if "all life should fall on the safe side of the line", what would you eat? Perhaps only organisms that have died without human intervention. Scavenging, I mean. But that wouldn't support very large populations.
> But that wouldn't support very large populations.
Well I don't agree at all!
Apart from the fact that large populations can live without meat, I can easily envision a "scavenging farm" where animals are liked after until they die, and only then processed. It wouldn't be as efficient as our farms, but completely possible.
Dead bodies, unless mummified or otherwise desiccated into jerky, are teeming with bacterial life.
There's simply no way to survive without destroying other life. Even plants kill other living things in self defense (and many plants prey on animals).
Well I don't agree at all! Apart from the fact that large populations can live without meat, I can easily envision a "scavenging farm" where animals are liked after until they die, and only then processed. It wouldn't be as efficient as our farms, but completely possible.