If you are a vegitarian because you object to killing an animal....?!
They too are alive, right?
Not arguing, just curious. Honest!
Answers: ...then how do you justify killing a plant?
They too are alive, right?
Not arguing, just curious. Honest!
Not me, I altered my diet for me. Me comes first before anything else. I wanted to change my diet for athletics, specifically distance bicycle racing. So, I just started researching the most natural way of eating for humans -- I was thinking back to the days before any of these modern conveniences etc. Also, looking at humans as if I were studying any other animal... what would this creature eat in the wild according to its biology. I immediately gave up all animal products as we are not designed to consume such things. And of course all those modern chemicals, additives, colours, etc. I found that humans are best designed to eat fruit. Just as with chimpanses. Mainly fruits... then some leaves, nuts, etc. Basically fruit has all we need. Of course, I live in the north and not running around naked in the tropics living in the wild off of fruit. But, I try to eat as close to nature as possible. The main thing is to have a garden. Are plants alive? Sure they are. But we are designed to eat them. Many plants we eat just keep growing... pick the leaves, more grow back, dig up the tubers, more grow back, berries... fruits... and sure, some plants just do not survive the winter and we collect the seed and replant next year... and in that way, the plant lives on. Fruits, berries, nuts, etc. are all designed to be eaten. They want to be eaten in order to spread their seed. That's how it works. Live and death... it's part of nature. If I was a natural meat eater, then I'd be eating what? The slowest, oldest, and weakest of the flock... basically eating the ones that would not naturally survive for very long anyway. We've all seen the nature shows on TV. It's very very different from systematically abusing and slaughtering animals and treating them like raw material than the sentient beings they are. When thinking of Me first, it includes my own health and well being, which spans out into the world to include pollution, environment, nature, animals, plants... everything... We cannot live and say we are totally disconnected from everything else... which is what most of us are doing... People live in the city totally disconnected for anything natural and they feel they are above nature, separate from it. Food comes from the store -- that's all they know. Dirt is under the concrete. People grow up and never in their lives to they ever take off their shoes, walk on the ground, play in the dirt... for them, it's a world of asphalt , concrete, garbage, pollution, noise, traffic... even in the farmlands... it's just humans controlling nature... growing crops, spraying chemicals... the farmers are just as disconnected from nature as the city people in many ways.
There you go.
well think of it this way, its harder to find an animal then to find a plant plus some animals are close to dieing cause of ppl like you
what about being carnivour because you hate killing plants =))
I don't understand Vegetarians, animals kill animals for food, it's the way it is. Sure I understand that maybe you don't want a chicken locked up in a box but why won't you eat free range? If a Lion could lock all the WildBeast in a farm (and eat them whever he wanted) he would. So would a bird who eats worms...
Plants do not have brains therefore they are not "alive" in the typical sense..
This question is asked almost every day. Go search for them and see what answers were given before.
well some people believe that too, and live their lives feeding on a raw friut and veg idet. and they only eat the fruit of the plant..so it doesnt get killed...this is a good question mate,,have a star xxx
Save the plants eat a cow . Just think of how many poor plants are killed by cows , they can't even run away .
Really I love animals , their delicious .
No, we are against killing things that feel pain. Plants don't feel pain. Yeah, there are studies that show that plants respond to music but this is not related to pain or thinking in any way. I've read some of those studies and the explanations are quite ordinary - nothing supernatural or groundbreaking there.
i agree with militant, but if vegetarians chose not to eat meat because it harms the animal then it's fine but they might have to find all the facts out on how animals are kept before they start asuming that all animals are in bad conditions before they are killed.
Gee. I've never seen THIS question before.
i can tell ur not making fun of vegetarians and u asked to be serious Animals can move around and have a mind of their own and come from their mother (chickens do too). Plants are grown from a seeds and dont have a mother and father
My research prof in college called me a nervous system chauvanist because of my response.
Basically, plants don't have a nervous system so do not feel pain, while animals do have a brain and nerve endings that can cause the expression of suffering. I don't know if plants can suffer, there are arguments for both sides, but in order to survive, I still have to eat something, so I choose what has the least possible pain from being eaten: plants (and milk...very very rarely eggs).
So yeah, I'm a nervous system chauvanist :)
Plants have no CNS (central nervous system), therefore they can not process pain or suffer. Plants are only "alive" in the way your toenails are alive... they grow and react to stimuli, but not because they want to.
All that aside, even if plants did feel pain, eating meat would still be more harmful because it takes 15+ lbs. of grain fed to a cow to create 1 lb. of beef... it only takes 1 lb. of grain to create 1 lb. of bread.
Asked and answered many, many, many times before. You may not be arguing, but you are trolling because a cursory search would show this question in hundreds of forms. And it's v-e-g-e-t-a-r-i-a-n, honey.
And if you can't tell the difference between a carrot and a cow, you need to take a remedial biology course or three.
Yes. However, plant life is not sentient life - they are not beings with reason and emotion.
good question. i can;t go more than a week without enjoying a juicy steak
That's an interesting question. Unlike humans and animals, plants have no central nervous systems, nerve endings, or brains. It's theorized that animals need to be able to feel pain so they can use it for self-protection purposes. For instance, if you touch something that's hot and feel pain, you'll know to avoid that thing in the future. Since plants can't move from place to place and don't need to learn to avoid certain things, this sensation would serve no purpose. Physiologically, plants are completely different from mammals. Many perennial plants, fruits, and vegetables can be harvested over and over again without dying. Hope that answers your question!
Plants don't feel pain. Although they are living things, they have no brain, therefore cannot feel pain. =]
Vegetarianism works in Body-Emotion-Intellectual balance.
There are 3 level of evolution in modern vegetarians.
*Level 1 – Physical*
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BEGINNERS; Concerning 5 senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, body conscious). More concern about animal as "bloody" and "filthy", health issue, disgusting smell and taste, “instincto”, RELIGIOUS ideology
*Level 2 – Soul (Emotion)*
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INTERMEDIATE ; Concerning "animal rights", love, care, famine, poverty, hunger, starvation, pain, suffering, cry, scream, murder (KILLING AN ANIMAL !).
Level 3 - Mind (Intellectual)
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MOST CRUCIALLY, World issue, hunger, starvation, resources, pollution, meat-politics, freakonomics, domination by the strong ones, poverty, famine, criminology, psychopath.
Therefore "killing an animal or plant" is only a minor part of vegetarianism-by philosophy. Vegetarianism never stop at eating habit alone. It is a continuous journey. There are many other crucial reasons why must be a vegetarian.