whose babies is it acceptable to eat?

life is all offspring and progeny.
and as each individual life is finite,
the only means for continuum
is for one to beget the other.

and as heterotrophs
all that we eat, 
whether plant, fungus, animal or bacteria,
is the offspring of a living being.

in the most literal of ways,
we are all eating each others' children.

it's just about which ones you find acceptable
or not
and where you choose to draw the boundaries
of your family.