[yesenadam]

Hehehe well.. I guess that's the point of Alive. It's sometimes the thing to do. Depends how hungry you are. If the alternative's dying, most people would.

For some societies, e.g. Eskimo, being vegetarian would be impossible, while in ours, eating meat or animal products is totally unnecessary for almost everyone. And does a lot of harm to the environment.

[Fnoord]

> Depends how hungry you are. If the alternative's dying, most people would.

Yeah, survival movies like Cast Away, Into The Wild, and 127 Hours (I just saw the latter) underline that people do weird things to survive including diet-wise. But I also saw the voluntary coin of the story in the beautiful documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. An animal lives in freedom and relative peace, until it gets hunted and killed. That's different from ~45 days of prison life a chicken here gets. Can't compare that 1:1 and judge the former as non-vegan. Its as close to vegan as it gets due to being natural.

[yesenadam]

Sure. <Intrepidly goes off-topic> .. Into The Wild was just the guy being a spoiled ignorant delusional dick, I thought, really not impressive. Jungle was far better. You almost persuaded me the guy in 127 Hours ate his arm off the first time I read that haha. (Um he didn't, did he?!) Am writing this in case you didn't see Dersu Uzala (the Kurosawa version), one of my very favourite movies. The world before cities was a different world, like you say. <Totally off topic> Incidentally, it's my theory that Yoda is taken from Dersu. (As Star Wars is a remake of Hidden Fortress)