Why do Vegetarians say they are vegitarians to protect animals when....?!
Why do Vegetarians say they are vegitarians to protect animals when....?
They kill many more plants to make their salad than a meat eater kills animals when they eat a steak?
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You people don't seem to understand that when you eat some meat you arn't even eating the full animal. Many people are fed out of just one animal. Also if anyone that says "we aren't hurting the plant by eating its produce" you are overlooking the fact that say if you are eating a tomato, you are killing lots of potential plants by eating the seeds!
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I am not making more world hunger! Anyone who says that there is not enough food for everyone is lying. Have you noticed how much extra food Americans eat and how much they throw away. Meat eating is not by any means the biggest factor in world hunger.
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The animals we eat would eat the plants weather we ate them or not and in fact by eating the animals we are stopping them from killing more plants
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You know what I just give up... no matter what you do you kill things....
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1 month ago
You people don't seem to understand that when you eat some meat you arn't even eating the full animal. Many people are fed out of just one animal. Also if anyone that says "we aren't hurting the plant by eating its produce" you are overlooking the fact that say if you are eating a tomato, you are killing lots of potential plants by eating the seeds!
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I am not making more world hunger! Anyone who says that there is not enough food for everyone is lying. Have you noticed how much extra food Americans eat and how much they throw away. Meat eating is not by any means the biggest factor in world hunger.
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The animals we eat would eat the plants weather we ate them or not and in fact by eating the animals we are stopping them from killing more plants
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You know what I just give up... no matter what you do you kill things....
People are vegetarians for a lot of different reasons. Your question is valid; and is explained mainly by the fact that plants, we assume, don't feel pain, nor are the conscious beings. So, while plants are indeed living beings, we feel better about killing them because they don't suffer, and they don't scream as loud.
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I have been a vegetarian for over 10 years, mainly for health reasons. :)
Good question.....I think I will stick with both...that way I don't discriminate
not really sure...but good point. It takes longer to grow a tree back than for an animal to be born and grow to butcher for steak...Good Luck!
you must be a first grader. First of all, it takes 16 pounds of plants and grains to make 1 pound of beef. Second of all, plants dont die when they give up their produce, they just keep right on producing it. You think the cows dont eat plants? I am assuming you must be very young-an adult couldnt possibly have such a narrow mind
i don't know, but animals r valued morethan plants so they would rather save hte cows than save the trees.
I should wait for Vegan&Proud to answer... but hey I'll take a stab... Do you know how many plants it takes to feed the animals you eat??? A lot more plants than we eat directly...so you would actually be killing less plants as a vegan...
Also Plants do not have brains or central nervous systems... just in case you are too dumb to put 2 and 2 together... Plants can not feel pain... anyone that thinks so, needs to go back to 2nd grade!
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Obviously you are too dumb to put 2 and 2 together!
Don't you understand that by eating meat that you are SUPPORTING the meat industry... and even though you do not eat the whole cow... You are still causing a demand for the whole cow to be killed...causing a demand for it to be fed more plants! And you are indirectly killing more plants then we do directly!
And AGAIN plants do not have feelings!! They do not feel pain! So I have no problem eating them. Bringing up the fact that I am killing more tomatoes by eating the seeds doesn't affect me. Don't act like you know what you are talking about... because you really don't.
HAHA you are just plain wrong and for some reason you feel the need to justify yourself to us.... Are you 5th grade? cause you sound like you are...
Where man kill animals not only to eat, they kill for fun and will do so to near or extinction of that animal (the North American Buffalo to name one). And you never heard of a plant being extinct because of Vegetarians eating it or Vegetarians just killing it for fun.
because plants arent cute living breathing cute animals that you can pet and see one minute and eat the next. Its wierd to eat somthing that lives on our earth. breathes our air and has feelings.
One point of being a vegetarian is that many families can be fed from the grain it takes to produce one cow. It takes 17 pounds of grain to make one pound of beef. Seventeen families could have one pound of rice, or one family could have a pound of beef. See?
As for your other point, FOR ME, there's a difference between eating a fruit, and eating a living creature.
In the immortal words of Yukon Cornelius, you eat what you like, and I'll eat what I like.
I don't understand it either, but it leaves more meat for ME !!
Oh, my brother's a Turkey and Sheep rancher... yummy yummy, yummy !!
You kill less plants by eating them directly,by cycling food through livestock you lose 96% percent of the calories that you put into it.Animals raised for foods in the U.S. use of half of all the water used in the U.S. You can feed 100 kids rice,or only four of them meat.The least efficient plant food is tens times efficient as the most efficient animal food.The rate of repetitive stress injury for slaughterhouse employees is 35 times higher than it is for those with other manufacturing jobs,Human Rights Watch says "Meatpacking is the most dangerous job in America".For every acre of land plowed down for urban development,seven acres are cut down to grow food for animals or for grazing land for animals.If everyone in the U.S. reduced their meat consumption by 10%,it would free up enough land to grow food for 100 million people(there are about 20 million starving).Livestock in the US produce 20 times the excrement of the entire US population.If everyone in the U.S. went vegan,we could cut our imports on oil by 60%.Methane is one of the four greenhouse gasses that contributes to the environmental trend known as global warming. The 1.3 billion cattle in the world produce one fifth of all the methane emitted into the atmosphere.The direct and hidden costs of soil erosion and runoff in the US, mostly attributable to cattle and feed crop production, is estimated at $44 billion a year.Feeding the average meat-eating American requires 3-1/4 acres of land per year. Feeding a person who eats no food derived from animals requires only 1/6 acre per year. A scientist, reporting in the industry publication Confinement, calculated in 1976 that the planet's entire petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 13 years if the whole world were to take on the diet and technological methods of farming used in the U.S. So not only are killing more plants than I am,you are also using up tons of water,you are contributing to the killing of animals(26 billion,just in the US),you are contributing to deforestation,you are contributing to world hunger,you are contributing to soil erosion,you are contributing to global warming,you are contributing to exploitation of workers,you are contributing to enviromental pollution,and you are contributing to the war for oil.All of that for what,your own tasebuds?
You should feel really bad by now.
http://meat.org/
edit:Out the 40 poorest countries,we buy grain from 38 of them to feed to animals so we can have meat,doing this is extremely inefficient.What is the 1st thing you think of when you imagine an Ethiopain person?Starving and very skinny(basically malonourished) right?Because that is what the stereotype is.But how did they get that way?The famine in Ethiopia did not occur because Ethiopian farmers could not produce food. On the contrary, during this crisis, which killed tens of thousands of people, European nations were actually importing grain from the impoverished country to feed European chickens, pigs, and cows.Eighty percent of starving children live in countries that actually have food surpluses; the children remain hungry because farmers use the surplus grain to feed animals instead of people.In Guatemala, for instance, 75 percent of children under the age of 5 are malnourished, and yet the nation continues to produce and export 40 million pounds of meat to the U.S. every year.Dr. Waldo Bello, executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, concurs that raising animals for meat is a waste of resources, stating, "The American fast-food diet and the meat-eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry."The Guardian explains that there's only one solution(for world hunger): "It now seems plain that (a vegan diet) is the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue.
edit 2:If this was a serious question about why veg*ns think it is okay to eat plants,then sorry I attacked you,this question gets asked all the time and 99% of the time it is done by trolls.But the main reason why veg*ns feel that it is okay to eat plants is that animals are sentient,plants are not.
a animal is a living breathing creature, while a plant is a plant, it doesn't have feelings. Animals that people eat are treated cruely!
plants have no nerves so they dont feel the pain of being slaughtered . they also can be planted over and over again and produce more food than animal.why kill animals for food when you dont have to? answer that question.
but the plant does not feel pain nor does i have a soul!!!!!
I don't know I think being a vegetarian is stupid personally and those who think being a vegetarian make you healthier think again, you need more iron than what plant foods gives you i pound of red meat such as steak gives you twice the iron than 3 servings of spinach and 2 servings of red kidney beans. So what I would like to know is why be a vegetarian when you can be a whole let healthier eating both vegetables and meat.
I believe you're wrong. The amount of plants I'd be responsible for killing by making a salad is far less than the amount of plants you would be responsible for killing by eating a steak. The cow you get your steak from could eat more grain in a month than me and my whole family could in the same amount of time. So frankly, I don't care how many plants I eat; Animals are being fed more plants to yield meat than I'm responsible for by making a bowl of salad. The things an animal goes through just for us to eat it is unbelievable, painful and horrid. What a plant goes through doesn't matter because it can't feel anything, or think about it because, obviously, it has no brain or central nervous system. Once an animal has been slaughtered, it's dead and that's all there is to it. When you eat produce, you can always grow another one that will be just like the first one.
If you bothered to research then you might know the proper details.
More than half of the agricultural land used to grow crop in the US is classified as feed crop. So more land in the US is used to feed animals than people.
Greater demand for livestock has caused companies to convert land to grow even more feed crop. The Amazon rainforest is being cut down to grow plants mainly to feed animals, not people.
The amount of water needed to support these activities is tremendous. Approximately more than half of the water going into the Southern California region is for crops and livestock.
i've been vegetarian for 5 days and i'm fifteen.
though i believe in helping and protecting animals, that wasn't the reason i went veg.
it was more a personal thing for me. i just think, if it weren't for someone else killing this cow for me, i wouldn't be eating this steak.
so now i just eat fish, cos that is the only animal i would ever kill myself. i wouldn't kill a cow, sheep, pig, chicken, so i'm not going to eat them. i'm just trying to be less ignorant and more aware of my surroundings, i guess.
but i admit, i used to think vegetarians and vegans were stupid, but it has only been in the past month or two that i've really changed.
have you seen africa lately? are you old enough to be in biology and learn about the 10% rule? if not, go to the library or just look it up on the internet.
you should not be allowed to eat