Many people assume visiting aliens from other planets are probably more advanced than us - more sophisticated. So what would these highly civilised outer spacers think of us earthlings when they see what we eat.
As well as occasionally eating each other, we gorge a vast selection of fellow life on this planet.
We have no qualms about killing these creatures and eating their dead bodies. Millions of birds, fish and animals are killed every day as part of our flesh-food supply.
I think aliens might ask why we eat flesh when we don't really have to. And why do we eat so much? We gorge ourselves on meat. We could easily live on fruit,vegetables and other food types.
As a vegetarian it amazes me how we earth inhabitants eat each other, usually in the dead state and sometimes while still alive.
I think aliens might be quite disgusted with us and could regard us as savages. The fact that we haven't stopped killing one another in wars and disturbances for thousands of years is another minus. Killing seems to be a human trait.
Of course, this is assuming that aliens are vegetarian or have a more civilised system of nutrition. It might be that they are the same as us, or worse. They might even want to eat us.
Just in case they are highly developed, maybe it's time we reviewed our eating habits, cut down on the meat scene and moved more towards vegetables and fruit. Then one day when our out of space visitors arrive in their huge spacecraft with flashing lights - and they will come one day - they will not completely regard us as cannibals.
On the other hand they may be vegetable life forms themselves and will be totally appalled that we are vegetable eaters. Their word for cannibal would be vegetarian.
It gets so confusing.
One thing's for sure though. If you ever meet an alien the first thing to do is find out what they eat.
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