Plants are living things too. Did you know that?!

Plants are living things too. Did you know that?

4 days ago
megan:

Oh, so killing is totally fine as long as they can't feel pain, ok, if we inject animals with morphine before they are slaughtered you will be fine with it i suppose?

4 days ago
"screaming out in pain"

lol, animals 'scream out in pain"? Well, ok, If animals didn't scream would you eat a hamburger? THAT is the deciding factor? whether or not they scream?

And so what if they 'have blood', why does the fact that animals have make killing them wrong? If animals didnt have blood, killing them would be fine?

4 days ago
why does the fact that animals have >blood< make killing them wrong?

error, my bad

SO, plants are alive, where are you going with that argument. Let me guess, since plants are alive(the same as animals there is no difference in killing them) Kind of grasping at straws aren't we? Did you fall asleep during in the third grade when they did the unit on nervous systems?

Plants do not feel pain, nor do they suffer. Plants might have a stress-avoidance response, but it is quite a stretch to refer to this as “pain.” It is even more erroneous to equate this response with the pain suffered by animals and human beings. Plants lack nerve endings, brains, hormones, and other structures that would allow them to experience pain. They also lack the ability to move away from sources of stress, an evolutionary trait linked with the ability to feel pain.

Even those who argue that plants feel pain and suffer should support a vegetarian diet because the number of plants that must be fed to an animal to produce enough meat for one human is greater than the number of plants required to feed that same human if he or she ate the plants directly. Meat-eaters are responsible for “killing” 10 times more plants than vegetarians, and they also kill and cause suffering to animals.

The argument that plants feel pain and suffer and that killing them is as bad as killing animals is weak and illogical. Those who use this argument to justify their continued consumption of meat should attempt to approach the debate in a more logical, scientific manner.

Just another false argument made by people who eat meat in order to justify what they do. This always amazes me, they say that they do not feel bad about eating animals yet they are always trying to justify why they eat the way they do.

"so killing is totally fine as long as they can't feel pain, ok, if we inject animals with morphine before they are slaughtered you will be fine with it i suppose"
-Well plants feel no pain, nor any emotions what so ever. They are completely unaware of anything. Injecting an animal with morphine may stop pain during the killing, yet not the many months of pain, loneliness, fear, etc that the animal must endure before going to slaughter. Unfortunately slaughter is just the last cruel step in the process.