Do vegetarians consider the pain and trauma they cause?

Question

Baby Carrots etc??????????

Okay it was a joke at first, but the more i smoke the more it seems a fair enough question. Vegetable nervous systems may just not have been discovered yet.

Don't be stupid, plant screams are inaudible to the human ear!

Answer 1

eat a good steak and you will feel better !!!

Answer 2

Ok, all you idiots out there - so maybe vegetables DO feel pain, and science isn't advanced enough for us to tell. However, we DO know that cows and other animals feel pain, and I think that we are all justified in saving the thing that we know for SURE can actually feel, than in eating it and trying to save a vegetable that maybe-maybe not can tell that it's being eaten. When you pull out a vegetable from the ground, or when you cut it up, do you hear it squealing in pain or does is struggle? No.
You need some brains - maybe you should get an implant from a baby carrot - they probably have brains as well, but we haven't discovered them yet.

Answer 3

Okay. Try this, I dare you. Pull a carrot and see if you can notice, using every sense you have, if that carrot reacts in anyway that the senses you were born with indicate it is in pain.

Then, try cutting your own throat, or at least chopping off a finger. Using every sense you have, see if you react in any way that indicate you are in pain.

All we have to perceive the world are the senses we have. Every sense indicates that mammals are in tremendous pain when they are killed for food and vegetables are not.

Your question is not really valid. In fact, I'd wager you're a little on the stupid side and you've never seen slaughterhouse video footage. I'll bet you do have a brain though. Try using it next question instead of pretending to think.

Why are vegetarians taunted this way and corpse-eaters are not?

Answer 4

No, probably not. They don't stop to consider that these veggies could have gone on to become more veggies. Are they dead when they purchase them? NO! Many could be replanted and live. But those d*** vegetarians -- heartless as they are -- throw those little carrots into boiling soup broth still kicking and screaming, so to speak. At least then they die -- they can no longer grow or produce. What about the people who cut them up (OUCH!) and then chew them to death piece by piece? And what about onions? Does pickeling them cause them to cry before they drown?

Answer 5

It's the root vegetables and cabbages which suffer most. I hear them scream each time I pull them. Cutting grass is bad, too, but it tends to be drowned by the noise of the mower. Onions and potatoes aren't so bad. They tend to be asleep when you harvest them and it hurts them hardly at all.

I find that seeds, berries and fruit like peas, beans, tomatoes, apples, raspberries &c. actually like you to pick them, though there is sometimes a little from peas and beans which we need to pick before they ripen. The plant produces them to be picked or eaten, anyway.

Answer 6

Those poor baby carrots. I prefer not to think of vegetarians as planet savers, but rather "vegetable terrorists". Sure, they are trying to save the cow (truly, is death really worse than that smelly existance?), but they forget that brocolli has to die to wind up in their little tummies. These "vegetable terrorists" are the reason for genocides of leafy greens in the millions. Really, who is the enemy here?

Answer 7

The way I see it, if vegetables had nervous systems and feelings, what WOULD be left to eat?

Haha, you should listen to the song Disgustipated by Tool. "These are the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverand Maynard, tomorrow is harvest, but for them, it is the holocaust."

Answer 8

I'm not really sure, but when I was in high school a friend and I led a Save The Carrots campaign.....to no avail...they just kept being mindlessly slaughtered....it seemed the more we protested...the more they ate...damn salad!!

Answer 9

From what I understand vegetables dont' have a nerve center. (Proud member of PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals btw) - NOT A VEGETARIAN!

Answer 10

I don't believe true vegans exist..I think they are trendy little bastards who need any cause to attach themselves to, to give meaning in their dull lives. The give it up in a few weeks when a new low carb chocolate fish diet becomes trendy by some lame *** celebrity like Paris Hilton.

Answer 11

Remember. Vegetarian is an old Native American word that means 'Poor Hunter'.