How come eat animals are bad but not eat vegetables?

Question

I think about vegeterian today. And I was wondering, If eat animals are bad thing, than How come eat evgetables are good? I mean they are alive, too. right? And I heard that vegetables can feel pain and when they scared They do something to protect them selves.

It's not logical. You just ignore them because they can't move and they can't make sound and don't have discusting red liquid?

I deny vegetarian's opinion who thinks that eat animals is cruel.

Yes, Maybe I'm wrong. Let's say they can't feel a pain. But they're still alive, right?

And Don't even start with the way killing animals. Vegetables and cereals are killed by people real bad.

Let's look how people treat wheat. People give them some kind of real bad medicine they don't even want, And After they grow, They killed them with big evil muchine. Do you think it's not cruel? Maybe they can't feel a thing but they are alive. Just like us.

So I'm saying that eat animal is not bad thing. Because god made us to eat something.If you care about your health, than it's ok not to eat. But I can't agree with eat-animal-is-bad kind of crap.

Answer 1

good for you. may I suggest pork for supper and bacon for breakfast.
Seriously, when man began to eat meat he shortened his lifespan. Nuts, berries and vegetables and wine are best for your body.

Answer 2

Vegetarianism isn't good for animals anyway: if enough people went veggie to actually affect the industry at all, and the demand for meat decreased, it would mean animals which were surplus to requirement. You're kidding yourself if you think that would mean they'd live happily ever after, as they couldn't be sold no one would want to keep them, and they'd still be slaughtered.
Think about it, the second farmers couldn't sell their livestock, the second they couldn't make a profit, they wouldn't keep them any more. Keeping animals isn't cheap, and to keep them, without profit, would be hugely expensive to any farmer. How many do you reckon would be prepared to make that kind of loss?
Now, what'd happen then? Maybe a few wild pigs or goats would stay alive, but for the most part it would be impossible to release them into the wild. The vast majority would have to be slaughtered.

I quote "If no one were allowed to farm animals, farms would grow crops instead. The first thing to go would be all the animals. Once the rural landscape were rid of cattle, sheep, and the like, fields would get larger, for the convenience of the combine harvesters, and hedgerows would go. Wild animals like rabbits would now be a more major pest. No farmer would want animals eating the plants, and so the war on such animals would intensify. Grown in the fields would be domesticate species of food crops, and so the number of plant species would decline."

Domestication is one of the best things that can happen to animals. If the golden eagle tasted any good you can bet your life it wouldn't be nearly extinct.

I quote "In the wild, a sheep would have to look for food, compete for it, jockey for position in the herd, look out for predators, guard its offspring, and it one day would die because of some accident, perhaps a fall, some nasty illness, or it would become weak and have its throat ripped out by the local predators. By striking contrast, the life of a farmed sheep is rather different. A farmed sheep has complete protection from predators; all the food of exactly its favourite kind at its feet all day every day, for which it does not have to compete; no competition for mates; no need to guard offspring; free health care; free haircuts; it is very unlikely to die in childbirth, and unlikely to die a nasty death. True, half a ewe’s offspring are taken away and killed. However, in the wild, a ewe would lose most of its offspring anyway, and in nastier circumstances. By the standards of the natural wild, a sheep’s life is about as cushy as a life could possibly be."

This is true, animals in the wild invariably die violent deaths. the closest an animal will get to dying of old age is being picked by a predator because it it old and therefore an easier to target. Farmed animals invariably lead happier, healthier, less stressful lives than those in the wild.

Answer 3

Yes, plants also have feelings. This has been scientifically proved. It is also true that eating fruits and vegetables is a cruel act as we deprive plants of their right to live. We deprive this right whenever we kill plants and animals, for whatever purposes.
The only thing to avoid such cruelty is not to eat anything! This is not what vegetarians say. If you have a choice, would you see someone suffering due to your acitons? I suppose you wont. Maybe because we dont see any feeings expressed by plants when we kill them for our food/clothing/shelter, we wouldnt mind doing this whereas some people wouldnt even like to imagine a living, moving, seeing, feeling thing, like an insect or animal ,being butchered or suffer, to satisfy humans.
Whether to be a vegetarian or not is a personal choice. There can be other reasons for adopting vegetarianism, such as the amount of resources we expend to obtain food for one person from non-vegetarian sources being about 4 times (or even more) than what we expend for feeding 4 person by vegetarian food. This can be a controversial issue. There are several such arguments in favour of being vegetarian.
Ultimately, it is a matter of individual choice, based upon one's own mental make up, level of morals, etc., whether one should become a vegetarian or not.
It might interest you to know that certain religions in the world prohibit its followers from any time of killing of other living forms. These religions exhort their followers to keep killing (for human sustenance) even of plants, to the least.
It is up to people to go by their convictions in these matters.

Answer 4

Everyone has the right to their own opinion. People have the right to consume what they like as long as it's not illegal. I have heard debates similar to this and do eat meat myself. I believe it is wrong for meat to be wasted and teach my daughter where the meat comes from etc. We have thanked chickens and cows before and I have even taken her fishing where she has caught and watched us cook and ate the fish. The supermarket is part of the problem. People are diassociated with the work and resources used to provide a small amount of meat. Vegetables require less effort and are more nutritious. Now I don't eat pork but that's my own reasons, nor do I push my beliefs on others. I don't feed my daughter pork either and forbid others to give it to her. When she is older she will decide on that one. It's all a maytter of personal choice and isn't great to be able to choose? In many other countries people are starving and we in America can pick and choose what we will and will not eat? I love this place!

Answer 5

Ok the reason eating animals is cruel is because of the way that they kill the animals and "store" them before they are going to die. Did you know that the mother pig, before she is going to die will be kept in a cage so small that she has no room to move and certainly no room to get up? The babies are also kept in a equally small cage and at feeding time have to squeeze through the bars of the cage to reach their mother, this is an extremely painfull process for the pigs that you will just in the end, go and eat. Do you think about the torture the meat you are eating goes through just to feed you?

And as for your statement on plants...most plant are still alive when you eat them, they only die when gastric acids in your stomach break it down. And also, plants are gathered in a way that is totally pain free to the plant itself beacuse it is quick and takes less than a second.

And not all vegetarians are vegetarian because they think it is animal cruelty, they are sometimes vegetarian because of religion and culture.

If you're not concerned about the animals at least worry about yourself. The vegetarian diet is the most healthy. Do you know that most animals are fed hormones to make them grow fatter and when you eat the animal you also consume the hormones which will also make YOU grow fatter and result in heart disease or cardiovascular problems.

If a 13 year old like me can understand this, assuming you are much older, you should also be able to understand this

Answer 6

Well as long as we don't chase down and devour animals alive, or kill them slow with disease and pain and starvation, it's kinder fate than what nature has in mind for them, or us. It's not cruel unless you kill for pleasure and let the meat go to waste, but we have sharp teeth for a reason, and it's very difficult to meet the requirements of our body on a non-meat diet. And check up on the latest discovery that too much soy is connected with cancer growth, something worth considering. I don't like killing animals either. But also consider that over 1500 domesticated breeds of farm animals disappeared over the last century because of corporate farming focused on mass production of meat. Yes it's better when chickens are free ranged but due to bird flu fears, they now advise all poultry remain indoors. I'm not making fun of people against eating animals, but it wouldn't stop a big predator from eating them, nor the worms that eventually eat anyone not cremated.

Answer 7

It's a common misunderstanding when people believe that we don't eat meat just because it came from a life. For the vast majority of us, that has nothing to do with it. Most of the vegetarians you will meet choose not to eat animals because animals feel pain. Plants are completely incapable of suffering and feeling pain or sadness. Others don't eat meat for religious reasons, or to be more healthy, don't like the taste of meat, it's easier to lose weight, to save money, or because the meat industry hurts the environment.

Answer 8

My head hurts from translating. I think I finally got it. First off if you think you're being smart for asking this, READ AROUND THE VEGETARIAN/VEGAN SECTION FIRST.
The reason I don't eat animals is because they feel pain. Which means they have a central nervous system. Plants on the other hand don't. What you're saying isn't logical my dear :)

Answer 9

Yes. eating plants is cruel. Still, humans have to eat and given a choice between plants and animals, you'd have to choose plants because you can't live without them. Eating animals is considered 10 times crueler because of the way they are raised, bred, and injected with growth hormones just to be slaughtered.

Answer 10

Animals have nervous systems. Plants do not.

Even if plants were equal to animals in pain sensitivity, to get a pound of hamburger it requires 12-16 pounds of grain, plus the death of the animal.

Also note that many plants can be harvested and eaten without damaging the plant in any manner at all, such as tree fruits.

Answer 11

Eat animals are not bad. It's the vegetables that have been passing e.coli lately.