In antiquity, the Platonic philosopher Plutarch had already launched a major indictment against meat-eaters. He believed that eating meat was a matter of culinary pleasure, not a necessity for survival: as omnivores, humans can nourish themselves as they see fit. In De esu carnium, Plutarch states: "We have no reason to kill in order to eat."

Today we feel that something is happening to redefine humanity. Faced with the advances of transhumanist ideology and its totalitarian ambitions to create a "new man", a clever combination of man and machine, the wisest among us will undoubtedly remind us — and thus shout themselves hoarse in vain in the wilderness — that humanity cannot delude itself into thinking it is being redefined, while its nature endures, immutable, through the centuries, as do the tragic, and sometim