Why is it okay to eat plants but not animals?!
Answers: People don't want to think that what they're eating maybe had a soul. To me it's just nature. Most animals eat other animals, circle of life and all that junk. If I were out in the wild, I'm sure a predator wouldn't feel guilty about making ME it's dinner.
Define "ok".
If you're asking why vegetarians eat plants and not animals, it's either 1. health, 2. environment, 3. animal welfare. Plants don't have central nervous systems.
I took Home Horticulture in college. My professor "absolutely" assured us that plants most definately don't have "feelings" - if that's what you're getting at.
It's very healthier to eat plants, but its otherwise with animals.
naturally humans teeth are made only to eat plants, not animals unlike carnivorous.
For millions of reasons, basically:
- Humans are animals.
- We need plants to live, we do not need to eat animals to live.
- Most edible plants are not harmful for human consumption and even help prevent/cure disease, animals on the other hand are very harmful for human consumption.
- Plants do not have the same nervous system as animals. Animals nervous system contains a heart and brain, and it enables them to suffer and feel both emotional and physical pain. And it is not good to promote and let the suffering of any creature happen.
- Animal production and slaughter in present times contributes to world hunger, while plant production does not, and cannot, since more plant food can feed the world than animals can.
- Humans bodies are built to eat plant matter and not animals.
- There is no such thing as plant SLAUGHTER.
There are multiple reasons that people are vegetarians/vegans. 1. health 2. allergic 3. animal rights (feel sorry for them) 4. environment...I started being vegetarian because I felt bad for the animals (plants don't have emotions and advanced nerves) but now with all the health issues and sicknesses going around, it is logical to be vegetarian. You can actually feed fifteen vegetarians on the land it takes to feed one average meat eater because the animals must be fed. Also the cow manure is a gas source and is HORRIBLE for the environment. My opinion: GO VEG!
Animals feel pain. Also, when they sense danger, they become fearful and anxious.
Vegetables do not have brains and therefore do not have sensory input such as pain.
Please watch the documentary "Earthlings."
I really don't know!
plants are not sentient conscious beings, they do not have a nervous system and are not able to feel pain. that's why it's ok. Plants are healthier and tastier than meat too.
animals have avervous system plants dont...however there are plants that have touch receptors such as the mimosa
The leaves of Mimosa have the capability to display thigmonasty (touch-induced movement). In the sensitive plant, the leaves respond to being touched, shaken, heated or rapidly cooled. The speed of the response depends on the magnitude of the stimulus. Hitting the leaf hard with the flick of a finger will cause the leaf to close in the blink of an eye whereas a gentle touch or modest heat source applied to leaflets at the tip of a leaf will result in a slower response and the propagation of the stimulus along the leaf can be observed.
therefore the leaves repond to possibly danger by closing themselves...i beleive this is a response so that the plant does not get harmed and is a self preservation action just as a lizards will break their tale off if caught by it...so plants o have a degree on intellegence.
I am a vegan. Thus, I choose not to eat animals because they are SENTIENT creatures. They are self-aware. They can experience suffering, and in the age of factory farming animals like cows, pigs, and chickens suffer greatly and needlessly at human hands. That is my personal belief.
As others have mentioned here, plants do not have a central nervous system and thus are not equipped to experience suffering. Although plants may have some kinds of self-protective mechanisms, scientists have not verified that a plant can FEEL pain. At least not in a way we humans can perceive. But suppose this were proved, then what could I eat? Not much left to choose from!
Ultimately, we all have to eat SOMETHING to live. To me, eating plants instead of animals is healthier and more humane. But let me know when science advances to the point when we can live off air. Then I'll join the "breathe-arians."
Plants have no capacity for suffering, animals do.
Eating plants is more environementally sound, whereas industrial meat production is responsible for as much contribution to global climate change as driving inefficient cars.
To boot, eating a plant based diet offers protection from the so-called diseases of affluence.
it is not, only fruitarians are the only true moral people in the world.
If you slave over a roast for 4 hours, a vegetarian won't eat it.
Why?
So there will be less suffering in the world.