Why some vegetarians don’t eat meat cos they feel pity that the animals are slaughtered and...?!
Is it not contradicting?
Answers: ...they argue that is inhumane, but they don’t hesitate to eat any food from plant origin ignoring that actually the same thing happens to the “living” plants?
Is it not contradicting?
haha! um no, it's not the same thing.
I dont think plants have feelings.. But would you want to eat something with eyes, ears, nose and mouth?
I have no problem with them. I do have a problem with them glaring at me because i have a shopping cart full of meat. It's none of their damn business
Are you serious??
I think you are over analyzing the plant verses animal debate and are being a bit dramatic.
what if humans were raised as food for other animals?
These are the cries of the carrot.
for tomorrow is the harvest day,and to them it is...the holocaust.
Rev.Maynard
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NOT at all contradicting. I am a vegetarian. What do you expect us to eat? Dirt? give me a break. Animals are not the same as plants. Animals feel pain, have brains, have feelings, have babies, and want to be happy just like humans do. They experience emotions....cows become extremely scared before they are killed, and also can go out searching for their babies when they are taken away.
I think you need to do some more mature research. It is a very uneducated question you asked.
Well i am a vegetarian and i dont think im contraditcting anything. Plants have no brain, and no nervous system, they cant feel pain, or think.
So now vegetarians arent contradicting themselves at all.
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no lol because plants arent aware of whats going on and arent slaughtered in horrific ways, and even plants/vegeatatian that is farmed for food is given a good qaulity of life (is given sun and water etc to keep it healthy/good qaulity) so its not missing out on anything... and plants . Where as most places that keep animals for meat treat them like **** and dont give them any sort of qaulity of life, they give them maybe just enough food to keep them alive (so theyre a decent size for making into meat) but they arent let out, theyre born and have to live in shitty little rooms where they can barely turn around/or not turn around at all.
i don't think that's contradicting...
plants don't have eyes, ears, mouths, and i really don't think they fall into the 'animal' category. which is what humans and livestock fall into.
This question has been posted so many times.. Look up some of the other questions for some answers.
I look at it like this..(Im a meat eater BTW) animals have brains and nervous systems which means they feel fear and pain. A plant which may have a survival instinct imprinted in there DNA, do not feel pain. (unless you watch the movie ferngully, :) ) So that is where the inhumane feelings come into play.. And most vegitarians believe this is a personal choice and they do not eat meat because its something they choose for themselves. So why do others care if a vegitarian chooses not to eat meat, as if its a personal assault on them eating meat..
No. There is no real proof plants feel pain. They don't sceam when being cut down or while having their fruits picked. Animals certainly do feel pain when being killed. We know for a fact that they feel pain.
I suggest you delete this question for now and ask it again the next time you see a carrot or a tomato run away screaming when the farmer tries to harvest them. Or if they writhe in pain just after harvest.
I'm not a vegetarian or a vegan but I will not blindly take the side of an omni with such obvious ignorance.
PS And I am drunk (I am having naked Margaritas..no lime juice,no triple sec,no salt, no ice..just me, a glass and my old pal Jose Cuervo) so pardon if I am a little more ticked off than usual...
This should have gone into the "Entertaining" category. Plants would be eaten by animals if the humans didn't get them first. Ex must be somewhere nice....
Hahahahaha, gosh-I love stereotypes...not
"they"-well "we " don't have a collective unite/brain where we have all the same ideas and opinions...We aren't all joined to some club or mailing list.
Each person has their own reason to be vegetarian and veges don't have a brain and consciousness....
There are any number of reasons why people become vegetarians. Here are but a few:
1) They think it is wrong to eat the flesh of a living animal
2) Scientifically speaking, we aren't supposed to eat meat. By our original origins, we were vegetarians. Look it up. We also weren't originally created to walk upright. It's the main reason we endure so many back problems. As we evolve however back problems should eventually become a thing of the past. (If we are around that long)
3) Religious reasons
4) Macrobiotics
5) Health-It has been reported that one of the causes of cancer is due to the ingestion of red meat.
I'm sure someone can come up with other reasons, but this is a good start for you.
I'm a strange type of vegitarian... I actually used to love eating meat, espcially steak with mushrooms... because I lived on a farm and it was super fresh and I really hated Cows... anyway... When I eat meat I feel sluggish and tired, and truthfully now that we no longer have the farm meat is so expensive that I've all but given up on eating it. So when it comes to munching cabbage and pears I have no issue with it. We all need to eat something... sure there are "extreme vegan" types that don't eat anything from a plant that can not be easily relaced... but I'm not doing this to save animals, I do it because I feel healthier when I eat this way.
sorry had to answer there were so much crap given as answers...firstly plants dont have brains or a nervous system but doesnt mean they cant feel pain we dont have fins like a fish but can still swim...secondly plants can regenrate themselves...to a certain extent animals can...u get ur arm removed it will partialy grow back...the fact that people say they dont have faces so we can eat them is wrong...animals cant fly spaceships the same as humans so by ur logic it makes them less than us and we can eat them...and finally to the people that say plants are well looked after...no in the wild they grow with plenty of space between them..in fields they are in cramp rows...force feed chemicals and cut up when harvested if u want to ignore these points it shows just how absolutely retarded u all are...have a nice day carrot murderers
You can read and write, you can speak, you can apply your brain to save yourself, you are most advance species of the animal kingdom, so you are little bit safe, i said little bit, means there are some tribe which still relice human flesh. In "survival of the fittest" theory you emerged as strongest one, so you are safe. But who cares for the other, who are weaker than you whether animal or plant. Non-veg, if kills one animal, they distribute it or say consume that animal but the vegetarians kill thousands of livings for a single person and so they stand on the top of the killers of livings, they do not only kill them, they first cut them, they eat the child fruits or food, they cut the grains plants, dry them, crush them, take out their skins and eat them, they drink blood of the animals also in the form of milk. They do not slaughter but suck animals blood, may be called white blood. But I do not like to call them blood suckers
you are right, I don't like eating animals or plants. Can I eat you troll instead? - YES - that will be a lovely dinner, grilled troll!
Ah, the daily question...
(along with, of course, "but where do you get your protein?")
Plants do not scream. They do not shake with fear. They do not cry when their offspring are ripped from them.
But even supposing plants feel pain-
It takes ELEVEN pounds of plant matter to produce ONE pound of beef. So meat eaters consume far more plants anyway.
Cycling the world's food supply through cows, while people starve, is just stupid.
i don't eat animal stuff cause the taste makes me throw up. and yeah, of course it's murder.
Plants do not have central nervous systems and are not sentient beings. Even if our current knowledge is wrong and plants do feel, animals eat far more plants than people. Cows alone consume 28 times more plant matter than humans.
It's not contradicting, really. Think about it this way. Vegetarians (usually) don't eat animals because the animals are treated inhumanely throughout their entire lifespans (not just the time of death). Naturally they would try to hide, run away, fight back, etc., but these natural instincts are taken away from them by the use of factory farming. Even if you are not against eating animals in general, just imagine being crammed up and tortured from the time you were born to right now, only to have your throat slit and possibly get skinned alive, with zero chance for escape. Disturbing, right? That's why there are so many vegetarians/vegans out there. They don't want any living thing to go through that suffering. However, for thousands of years, plants have done nothing at all to escape or defend themselves. They just sat there and let themselves be slaughtered... stupid plants. As far as we know, there are no "pain relievers" for plants (there are for animals but they aren't used), and by farming plants they aren't really being treated any differently than they were in the wild. They just sit there, grow, and eventually get eaten. And if we don't eat them directly, the animals we eat will so we would be killing them all anyway.
Plants don't have nerves or brains so they don't feel pain. No brain...no pain!
Perhaps you should visit a slaughterhouse and see how these animals are treated, but that's only half of it...see what your government is allowing you to eat! Many cows slaughtered are downer cows (sick cows) and believe that there aren't enough government employees to investigate every slaughterhouse on a daily basis. Chickens don't fair much better either.
I'm not pushing my non meat eating principles on you...why are you people always coming onto this page and trying to push your meat eating principles on us? To each his own.
Just for your information...it takes 300 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of hamburger, methane gas from animals produced for food are the number one contributor of the green house effect and there would be no world hunger if everyone was a vegetarian.
Maybe somebody needs to watch " MEET your MEAT "
Go ahead and watch it...then post on what you think.
check out the link and watch some......good luck
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Not the plant question AGAIN. Dude, this has been asked and answered so many times, I've become convinced that people who ask this are a) idiots or b) insensitive trolls.
r u from india..?
Many (I would guess that MOST) of those types of Vegetarians, don't last. Every single person I have met that were Veg only to make a statement - haven't lasted. They eventually break down and have a really good burger. I'm sure there are some who have kept it up - so nobody has to throw daggers at me. When I meet a Veg, I ask if it's for health, religion or statement. None have ever been offended that I ask, but the statement ones seems to think that's an invitation to step up onto the soapbox. It's not. I understand there are inhumane slaughters and unnatural ways of fattening up an animal for eventual profit, but it's getting tougher all the time for ranchers to get decent prices for thier livestock. Just like anything else in any other industry. It doesn't make it right, but it's reality.
To answer your question - no it's not exactly the same. Plants can regenerate themselves. And I for one - completely enjoy my spot at the top of the food chain.