I just want to know one thing. A number of vegetarians claim that eating meat is cruel and henious to animals. When you think about it, isn't eating veggie the same as killing?? Plants such as vegetable are also living beings. They have billions of cells going through them. So, is that not double standard?
2007-01-15 11:04:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
For people who answer the question about the feeling of pain. What does pain gotta do with it?
If we kill animals painlessly and quick, would vegetarians change their mind?? The point is the result is the same, the living thing is dead.
2007-01-15 11:14:47 · update #1
I love meat! What's wrong with those veggie people!?!?!
2007-01-16 10:32:36 · answer #1 · answered by White Shooting Star of HK 7 · 11⤊ 1⤋
We don't believe that plants are conscious of pain, terror and suffering like animals are. If they feel pain, it seems as though it's not the same pain a human or animal would feel. I don't think it's a double standard.
I was a vegetarian for years, then I totally wasn't for a few years, now I'm back on the vegetarian train 98% of the time.
2007-01-15 19:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by Pico 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vegetables do not have a nervous system which allows them to feel pain, like animals do. Vegetables are not sentient beings like animals and people are, therefore there is a big difference. Vegetarians who choose to be that way for ethical reasons take into consideration the pain that animals go through as they are treated throughout life and then the way that they are killed. It's a little absurd to compare animals to vegetables.
2007-01-15 19:10:10 · answer #3 · answered by kaliluna 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't really eat meat a lot, and I think it's okay to eat meat. But I think that when animals are killed, they should be killed quick so that they don't have to go through a lot of pain before they die, because I hate to see animals suffer, even though they'll die anyway...but you kinda have a point there, we have to kill living things to eat in order to survive, but hey, even vegetarians gotta eat SOMETHING, right?
2007-01-15 19:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by këlly 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i am a vegan (no dairy, no meat)
No, eating a veggie is not the same as killing an animal.
Veggies aren't tortured!
and some veggies, and all fruits, eating one does not kill the plant.
raising veggies does not polute the earth like the meat packaging places.
most of crops grown, and drinking water used, are for fattening up animals for meat. this is just a huge waste of energy.
2007-01-15 19:50:17 · answer #5 · answered by ƎIΝΟƆ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am a new vegan (i no longer eat ANY animal products) and i don't think you can really compare eating veggies to eating animals. animals feel pain, veggies/fruits don't
2007-01-15 19:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by KylieM 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont eat beef but im not a vegetarian
2007-01-15 19:09:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not a vegetarian i raise beef cattle...but then is there anything we don't kill to eat if we use your analogy?
2007-01-15 19:08:53 · answer #8 · answered by Tek ~aka~Legs! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was for a day, but I quit.
2007-01-15 19:08:32 · answer #9 · answered by ۞ JønaŦhan ۞ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not I
2007-01-15 19:13:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋