The earliest humans survived on fruits, berries, leaves and a few underground plants by using their hands to access them for centuries because they had no other body organs to do anything else. Somewhere down the line, they saw some animals eating other animals and became curious. They would wait for the predators to have their fill and leave the site. They would then scavenge on the dead carcasses left behind. Human beings learnt to hunt when they learnt to make weapons and they learnt to cook the animals once they discovered fire. When humans began to live in tribes, the men used to go out hunting whenever they had time or wanted to but mostly came back empty handed. It was very difficult for them to overcome with the highly tuned senses of the animals to any danger. The entire tribe would feast if the hunters succeeded in killing and bringing back a dead animal. Later, man thought of making it easier to eat the flesh of animals and kept some of the live animals they caught in a fenced in area and waited for them to breed in order to kill them as ‘food’. This was also not very often as they didn’t employ any artificial means to reproduce them as is done now. But ever since then, man has killed and eaten captive animals. However things have changed a lot since the last century and especially the last couple of decades as more and more people are reconnecting with their innate nature of kindness, justice and peace.