Are vegetarians hypocrites?

Question

If they don't eat meat because they won't advocate the killing of animals for food, why do they support the killing of plants for food?

Life is life, whether animal or vegetable.

Answer 1

Yes, but everyone is a hypocrite on some level. But if you want to freak a vegetarian out next time mention the fact that broccoli screams when it gets near boiling water.

Answer 2

Yes Yes.. And it's more than just about eating plants.

If it's just about not causing pain, i.e. Plants can't feel pain that we know off, then gassing an animal and slaughtering it without pain should be alright.. shouldn't it?

Vegetarians believe they aren't harming animals because they don't eat them.. Which is completely nonsense because they harm animals as much as any non-vegetarian person.
1) Leather - If you're a vegetarian, you shouldn't have ANYTHING made of leather... it's ain't a plant extract.

2) Live in a place that was inhabited by animals - Have a home? Well, a whole bunch of animals lived there before you. Most places you live in were woods or forest before you need to buy a house led to their destruction. Any idea how many animals died? Think of the homeless baby squirrils!

3) Wood - yeh... You know where that comes from.. Trees. And what little creatures make trees their home? Baby Squirrils!! (and other creatures). All that wooden furniture or the wood used to make parts of your home.. you got that by killing thousands of woodland creatures.. MURDERER!

4) Eat anything grown on a farm : Due to the ever growing need for YOUR Veggy food -
a) Pesiticides are used to kill insects and small mammals. Including baby squirrils.. you heartless murderer!
b) Forests are cut down and thousands of animals bulldozed over to make more farms to grow your tasty soya bean (it DOESN'T substitute for chicken btw)

Man... I could go on. But the point is this - Vegetarians (the preachy kind atleast) are deluded hypocrates.

They kill even more BABY SQUIRRILS than I do.. (because I eat meat, and less veggies, hence killing less squirrils)

Hence, therefore, bleh - Non-Veg people Holier than Veg people.

Answer 3

There is only one reason why I am vegetarian. As an art student we were put in an abbatoir for a day to draw what we saw. The horror and the disgusting smell - never mind the fear of the animals wouldn't leave me for months - and yes I instantly gave up meat. I am now nearly 54 and I grow all my own food in my greenhouse. Yes plants suffer but we have to eat something. The bonus for me is that people think I'm only in my mid 30's so being vegetarian must be good for me - so am I a hypocrite? - well I don't know but I'm certainly healthy and I bet you never consider what you eat do you?

Answer 4

Vegetable isn't Animal! No blood comes
from plants.Animals weren't ment for
human consumption except in dire
emergency if you're starving and there's
nothing else around! Plants on the other
hand are created for eating. That's why
there are gardens done. You can't
have a garden of animals. The only
vegetarians that are hypocrites are
those that takeup eating fish & or
poultry and call themselves vegetarians.
Fish and Poultry is meat not plants.
If you think meat is ment for you to eat
then why not eat thyself are you not made
of meat? Vegetarians hypocrites? not to my way of thinking!

Answer 5

Oh everyone is a hypocrite in one way or another. This nervous system business is BS. You put a bolt gun through a cows skull into it's brain, old bessy don't feel nothing. Just instant darkness, that little jiggle they do is just the nervous system dying out, they don't feel it. Just like that spasm people do when they die. The farmed animals arn't whipped to death!! Just because a chicken runs around when you whack it's head off, doesn't mean it feels it. We all including vegitarians kill insects when they invade our house, they think, they have nervous systems, just rip the wings off a fly, it panics! Poor plants, they provide oxygen, animals consume oxygen, produce methane. People need oxygen, and can die from to much methane. Animals eat plants!! Kill an animal (only to eat it) save a plant and maybe your life!!

Also I know where 95% of my food comes from, Cows/my field. Lambs/my field, Veg,/ my garden(summer) greenhouse(winter). Chicken and Ducks/ got me a lttle coup. I still have to buy pork and fish and a few veg. I tend my own garden and slaughter my own livestock, I have a butcher that I use because I'm sloppy with a knife. And I dont eat squirrels. But my dog does,"Dam bushy tailed varmints" she woofs

Answer 6

eating plants is yummy. Some people are vegetarians for health reasons. Some just don't want to eat meat because the way some people raise cattle destroys enviroments.

It's not always about not killing animals. Most times it's about environmental impact.

Answer 7

I think the key difference is that the animals are capable of experienceing pain. Plants don't feel pain because they don't have a need to feel pain. Animals developed a central nervous system so that they can respond to danger by fleeing or fighting. Since plants can't do anything but stay put and not move there is absolutly no reason that they would have developed a sense of pain.

So in short I think that the key is that since we need to consume organic matter to live vegitarians have to eat something and they choose food that can't feel pain.

As for me, I love a good NY Strip steak.

Answer 8

I think as humans, people feel an instinctive relation to animals like pigs and cows as opposed to plant-life and so on. It's the fact that people have the intelligence for morals and ethical values that can determines so many people feel the need to give up meat.

I personally am a vegetarian, but although I do not eat meat, it is only down to the fact that I don't like the taste etc of meat. I think that as long as people take responsibility of their actions, eating meat is a natural thing and part of life, and if the animals are taken care of, through life and a humane and relatively painless death, enjoying it as part of a healthy diet is fine.

I do however have a slightly contradicting view on the fact that so many animals are raised for their product, although to be honest, I think the majority of meat-eaters who are able to afford the choice of lifestyle (and can afford to feed themselves and perhaps their families on a meat-free diet, which can prove expensive), will continiue to eat meat, either unaware of where the meat comes from, and careless at that, OR they are aware of how thier food was killed but are happy to disrigaurd that anyway, in order to enjoy a KFC.

I think teaching others to understand vegerariansim and where their food actually comes from is important, as oppossed to forcing such views on people who do not care - as I have seen so many times on pertitions on high streets - and honestly, I don't like to agree with animals in fashion but I have a pair of leather shoes. (Didn't actually relise it when I bought them but I ain't taking them back!) and confused or not, I'm a vege with leather shoes, paint brushes with animal hair and will quite happily take medication I know has been tested on animals first.

Answer 9

Because plants don't have a nervous system, so they don't feel pain. Plus you can argue animals are sentient - plants clearly are not.

That's not an argument for or against vegetarianism, I'm just stating a position. But your argument is a strawman - those who are vegetarian for these kind of ethical reasons do not object to killing animals because they're a 'life', it's because they consider those animals to be capable of 'suffering'.

Answer 10

Depends on their reasons. I have a cousin that cannot stand to eat meat, but does not think it is wrong. She really doesn't like the taste. People that think it is cruel and inhumane should talk to biologists about the repercussions to the animals if most stop. Especially wild animals

P.E.T.A. = People eating tasty animals