Hi,what is diff in killing plants n animals for food?!
Hi,what is diff in killing plants n animals for food?
HI all,
I am a brahmin and my fiancee is a non-vegeterian. She asked me a question, we r killing plants for food,which hav life,n animals,which hav life, what is the difference in both of them? "If killing animals for food is wrong, then killing plants too is wrong." she said, i could not answer her for this question. Please give your answers.
Thankyou in advance
Answers:
Come on...
Plants do not have brains.... Animals do
Plants do not have nervous systems...Animals do
Plants do not have nerves... Animals do
Plants do not get scared.... Animals do
And plants are not always killed for food, alot of them keep living... animals Don't.
Because animals eat plants, so we shouldn't eat something that eats whatever we eat?....
I dunno
Well animals can actually feel it and human beings derrived from animals.
Plats are alot easier to replace as well.
you don't kill plants..
I'll support on that point but you know what ? No point is absolutely unarguable .You can tell her that when you go close to a cute-looking animal, you felt sorry that the poor animal has lost some of its relatives /cousins/friends due to the need of human meat consumption. If that didn't work, just say that she eats vegetables too, why not just spare the animals.
There's no right or wrong. You won't kill your beloved pet dog to eat, would you? However, it's the not killing of animals whose purposes have changed over the years that is wrong. Take the roosters, for example, they crow in the morning to wake us up.
Dogs guard our homes, cat catch rodents, etc. Alarm clocks wake us up, security sytems protect our homes, traps to catch those pesky rodents, etc.
There are some disputes by killing animals, saying it's wrong. I have heard from those who are unable to understand this and posed a question to me, "So, if you are marooned on a small island that doesn't have any plants at all, only animals, would you still eat them?"
Interesting but if there were sheep, cows and other animals that eat plants on that island, they would be dead, won't they? I won't be able to eat too.
Perhaps the various reasons given from those who are strong believers in being vegetarian have lost their reasons behind being a vegetarian by simply throwing any reasons to confuse those who are trying to understand why.
well i can tell you after being a chef for many years, there is no difference.. both are living breathing creatures until we get involved. while plants will contain the chemicals and nutrients our body needs, the animals keep our body packed with proteins and fats. so essentially, there is a need for both to keep a healthy lifestyle, but it is in the eye of the beholder which is right and which is wrong.. best bet, agree to disagree.....
Vegans and veggies who eat the way they do for animal rights reasons say animals have personalities and feelings. They feel just as we do. They have a central nervous system, they have hearts and a brain. They can think and some animals are quite smart. They bleed and have babies. Some even mate with one animal for the rest of their lives. When you hit an animal hard enough it will yell out. Plants don't do any of that. Basically, veggies and vegans won't eat anything that can have babies because they think it's cruel. Plants are grown from the earth. You put a seed in some dirt, water it and give it sunlight and it grows. Plants aren't anything like animals. They don't feel anything. They don't scream out. They don't cry. They don't love.
Trust me, I've heard people comment on the plant thing before. They're doing it to get under your skin or they just have no clue what being veggie and vegan is all about. I find people who are against being vegan and veggie use the "plants are living too. you're killing them!" line the most.
My feelings are that killing anything for food is fine if you or your family has no other choice. Killing for sport on the hand is twisted in my mind. I do not understand hunting and how someone could enjoy the "thrill of the kill". Killing for fun..just cannot comprehend it.
As far as plants are concerned, I cannot understand how people can cut down a tree that has grown for 100 or more years and not feel any sort of guilt. Plants being harvested for food is not killing, it's co-existing with nature and her bounty. Growing crops, using chemicals, altering their DNA, and taking advantage of the land without respecting the environment to me is irresponsible and greedy.
The fact that I do not understand these points, doesn't mean I think badly of those who may participate in these actions. There isn't a clear-cut bad/good answer to this..just my opinion.
Well, we need to live. Plants or animals, whatever fills your stomach.
Still, you don't have to kill the plant to eat it. Just harvest it's fruit. Hopefully, next year it will grow some more.
Plants don't feel pain, simply as that.
There's a big difference between pulling vegetables like carrots or potatoes from the ground and cutting the throat of a screaming pig.
Ya, thats correct!!! we are killing both for food. But the difference is that plants don't have any reaction or cannot cry out loud and even if we cut them, it does not immediately die. while animal cries out loud just like human. and some animals do also have tears and they really resist once you try to put your knife in it's neck. studies also shows that tragic death for animals leaves stress to its meat and being passed on to human who eats the meat. that is why said by most psychologist, most human meat eaters has shorter temper than grass eaters ooops. i mean vegetarians.
plants dont walk around.
just tell her if she dont eat meat or plants then what the hell is she going to eat? lol but i think animals can tell when there time as come. i mean they have a brain dont they? they fear death just like the rest of us. plants dont
If the plant and the animal both understood that we were going to kill it in order to eat, only the animal would run away.
What is the Hindi rationale for this conundrum?
Why are Hindus vegetarian?
There are many reasons, environmentally, morally, physically are three bases that may be used to discuss reasoning for a vegetarian lifestyle. I don't have the space or time to explain the reasons here.
plants don't have central nervous systems, we are not putting them in pain by eating them. if she says something back to you just walk away cause thats what i'd do out of anger and annoyance
plants dont have a central nervous system, brain, beating heart and warm eyes. Animals have the capacity to feel pain, plants done. I grow my own veggies, and have never heard one wince, but my cat sure will if I step on his tail! Plants dont die when they bear fruits or veggies, they just keep on reproducing them during the season. Animals have one shot at life-and we shouldnt be the one to take it from them
(Adapted from a previous answer)
Vegans approach animal rights differently, but all would agree (except a fruitarian) that eating a plant is considered ethical.
I'll give you the Peter Singer Utilitarian approach to explain this assessment.
Utilitarianism states this, "every being capable of having interests should have its interests valued no more or less than any other being." This does not denote equal treatment, just equal consideration. For instance, a man is not capable of having an abortion and thus shouldn't be afforded this right. A dog can't vote, so dog's don't have the right to vote. Every sensate being, however, IS INTERESTED IN NOT SUFFERING. Suffering and happiness are actually prerequisites for having interests and all, and something cannot be happy if It does not have the capacity to suffer. A plant cannot suffer (I does not have a nervous system, which is responsible for pain), therefore it does have not interests, so humans can use it to for our own needs indiscriminately.
A non-utilitarian (I'm speculating here) holds that there a certain inalienable rights that cannot be violated even to the greater benefit of other beings. The end result is the same.