You want to know what your stance on slavery would have been, look no further than your support of factory farms. People are downright blind to the plight of these animals and the diseases spread by their mistreatment (and you idiots who like to go on about e.coli and salmonella being found in produce should dig a little deeper- manure and runoff from enslaved animals are the root cause). Accounts of The Great Separation exist in every culture and religion- man once lived in harmony with animals and made a pact not to eat them unless needed for his own survival. Your body may need meat- but not three times a day, and most likely not even more than once a week. If you can't kill your own meat, and more to the point- if you can't control yourself from gorging on it, you shouldn't eat it. Stop making the rest of us sick!