If vegan/veggie why do you not eat mussels and clams?!
If vegan/veggie why do you not eat mussels and clams?
I consider myself as a humanitarian eater. I only purchase eggs and goat's dairy products from people who I personally know that raise the goats and chickens completely free range.
I’ve researched it via the web and found out that although fish, shrimps and calamari feel pain and have brains, mussels and clams do not feel pain nor have a brain at all. I’ve posted questions to organisations that deal with animal rights, veganism etc. and they all replied that researches did not show that clams and mussels have brains or feel pain, but that they do not consume it because of the doubt that the researches might have been mistaken.
I think that vegans and veggies should be constantly thinking critically, and judge for them what to eat and for what reason, it must not become a religion like habit, but something that you are continually aware of.
Answers:
It is rather simple, really. "Vegetarian" is a definition used for a person who does not eat animals, regardless of reason. People are vegetarians for health, environmental, spiritual and/or moral reasons.
A person could certainly eat those animals if s/he wanted to, and that would be fine, but that person would not, by definition, be a vegetarian.
You can feel that we need to think more critically, but I have no desire to start looking for animals I *could* possibly get away with eating. And if I ever did decide I wanted to eat an animal, it certainly wouldn't be some slimy clam.
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I didn't decide to stop eating animals so I could be a vegetarian; vegetarian is the word used to define my eating habits because I decided not to eat animals.
Everyone has different reasons, but once you allow everyone's various reasons and exceptions to change a definition, you start to have people who eat chickens trying to call themselves veg for a particular reason; or who knows, maybe next some will think eating pigs are vegetarian. You can be a conscious eater, but vegetarians consciously do not eat animals.
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They are still meat that's why
I can see your point but I think its more to do with the animal being alive in the first place. Both my dad and my boyfriend are vegitarian and both agree that they won't eat anything that once had a mother, if it feels pain or not. Some veggies eat seafood on the basis that fish don't feel pain but its personal choice. Vegans don't eat anything other than vegtables and lentals. They won't eat any dairy product so eating a clam is out of the question!
My boyfriend never thinks about his vegitarianism, it's quite simple once you cut out meat, you don't think about it at all. For Vegans, I'm sure there is a little more preparation but it wouldn't be a constant thought, more habit once you get going.
Have you ever heard of a fruitarian? They only eat fruit that has fallen naturally from a tree so as not to hurt it! Surely thats got to take some getting used to!
they are still living tho!. if i were veggie i guess i would cut out ALL flesh.i'd feel a kinda hypocrite to eat something that was alive,regardless of whether it could feel it or not.
I don't care...they're nasty, like little bugs of the sea.
Simple answer..they are animals. We don't take the life of another living creature to eat it.
because there still living creatures.
I am vegetarian for health reasons - and very close to veganism, as I have explained in earlier responses.
I researched every food item before I cut it from my diet, to make sure it was something I felt would be best for my health.
After reading about shellfish and the levels of chemicals found in them it was an easy decision to make.
Shellfish and bottom dwellers(tuna) swim and live in the garbage that we deposit in the ocean. The trash settles to the bottom. They absorb it and we see it in rising levels of toxins within the organisms.
Thanks, but no thanks.
i try to avoid living things, but i guess my reason for not eating mussels or clams is because i dont like the texture or the taste!!! ;D but even if i did, i think i would just avoid it
i don't eat muscles and clams because they still have centralized nervous systems. That's my dividing line. Everybody has one and it's different for all of us, but for me it's a centralized nervous system. If it doesn't have one of those, I'm fine with eating it. Some people think a face is important. For you it's clearly a brain. For me, well, I've already said it a couple of times. I agree that being vegan is something that people need to think about and constantly update and re-think their views. Politics is the same way.
I don't eat them becasue they're gross and I don't eat shrimp and certain other sea creatures because they are icky bottom feeders.
'Cause unless I'm mistaken seafood isn't a vegetable or fruit....
I'm not so much interested in whether shrimp or
clams feel pain. That gets into erring on the
side of caution and it's not my chief concern.
My two big reasons why not are:
1. Most of the shrimp that come from Canada
are netted by companies that club baby seals
to death. Their two- fold purpose in these
murderous practices are to eliminate the
competition ( seals eat fish and shellfish)
and to skin them for their fur.
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2. When any form of seafood is netted other
species are caught and killed or beached
right along with them. This means bye- bye sea
turtle, bye- bye sea lion, bye- bye shark, bye-
bye whale and bye- bye dolphin.
The sea turtles are endangered in some of the
regions they are indigenous due to the
mollusk industry.
Also- vegan means plant-based. If it's not a plant
we don't want it going through our innards. It's really
just that simple for most vegetarians.
I hope that helps you understand the why.
meat just tastes bad.
They are still members of the animal kingdom. Plus, seafood contains high levels of mercury and lead that can be hazardous.
Well, you are what you eat and the diet of a clam consists mostly of the raw sewage and industrial waste that pollutes our coastlines.
becz they r living...........................
because they are still living creatures.