Why do vegans complain about killing animals when plants are living breathing organisms and feel pain also?

Question

I`m just asking ?

Answer 1

I agree, we should just revert to cannibalism. May the strong survive!

To heck with rational thinking I'm hungry!

Answer 2

This question is very typical of meat-eaters who are finally feeling some guilt. It is a way of distracting themselves from the fact that animals do experience suffering - real tangible suffering. Saying that "plants feel pain" is just a way to write off vegetarianism by complicating it and trying to convince yourself it's too hard to stop eating meat. It's not. Animals writhe and SCREAM in pain, just as humans do.

Many vegans/vegetarians have stopped using animal products because they've realized that the killing of an animal is often the least of its suffering. The conditions in which these animals are forced to live (never seeing sunlight, confined in spaces so small they can't turn around - for their entire lives) is so deplorable that we can't help but stop supporting those industries. Even people who love meat stop buying it for these reasons.

Please watch the short video Meet Your Meat and think about how animals feel pain. Here is a link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQvDwEhHcw or look it up online. Keep your mind open, brother!

Answer 3

Well this has been debated and that is why some people are fruitarians. Fruit being something like a product the plant bears which is meant to be picked or eaten by animals.

Some people think plants feel pain perception, but some people do not, because they feel plants do not have a central nervous system that registers pain. Animals have a central nervous system and a brain. Central Nervous systems and brains register pain.

Plants cells have walls and are therefore structurally different than animal cells which have cell membranes. how does this compute? Well it doesn't entirely. After all, it brings structure to the plant. But it shows a basic fundamental difference between and animal and a plant.

Also by the very fact the plant is immobile communicates itself as a prey. If it wasn't meant to be eaten, it would be mobile. It would grow wings like a bird. It would grow running feet. It would grow something to protect itself, but it doesn't. And therefore it can be surmised that nature has delegated the plant to be eaten.

I think another thing to remember is that animals are closer to us in the animal family. For instance, a cow or pig are mammals. We are mammals, too. Their basic structures are extremely similar to ours. So then you have to ask, Would you eat your cousin?

This is actually -why- some people who do not eat beef or pork, but they will eat chicken or fish. And -that- is because a chicken and a fish are -not- mammals. So in a way, they are not our cousins and not related to us in very many ways structurally. They are basically removed from us and less similar. So some so-called veggies will sometimes eat them and not feel very bad.

But your question is about pain. Anyway, those are just my theories. I hope I answered the question for you.

Answer 4

This is the typical answer:

“What about plants?”

There is currently no reason to believe that plants experience pain because they are devoid of central nervous systems, nerve endings, and brains. It is theorized that animals are able to feel pain so that they can use it for self-protection purposes. For example, if you touch something hot and feel pain, you will learn from the pain that you should not touch that item in the future. Since plants cannot move from place to place and do not need to learn to avoid certain things, this sensation would be superfluous. From a physiological standpoint, plants are completely different from mammals. Unlike animals’ body parts, many perennial plants, fruits, and vegetables can be harvested over and over again without dying.

If you are concerned about the impact of vegetable agriculture on the environment, you should know that a vegetarian diet is better for the environment than a meat-based one, since the vast majority of grains and legumes raised today are used as feed for cattle. Rather than eating animals, such as cows, who must consume 16 pounds of vegetation in order to convert them into 1 pound of flesh, you can save many more plants’ lives (and destroy less land) by eating vegetables directly.

Answer 5

Great Point. I practice a fairly vegan diet, but it has nothing to do with the killing side of stuff. Simply do it for health reasons.

I personally feel that many vegans that are active about animal rights simply are unhappy people. It is no different than a "Christian" who supports a war.

Confusion, hypocrisy, and simple mindedness.

Answer 6

Conversely we can also give animals a good life. I eat mainly veggies I guess but I'll usually have some meat every day. I like to buy my meat from local producers who give their animals a damn good life. There's one guy here who will tell you everything about the lamb - they have photos and names, and their days are just sheep paradise. Happy meat is tasty meat.

I don't feel the need to sentimentalise animals, but one thing that sets us above them is that we are able to choose to be responsible with our food production, unlike any other carnivorous predator. Responsibly managing and caring for animals is a nobler position to be in than just passively "not causing animals pain".

But then I don't think people should vandalise trees either. We should respect living things, whatever we choose to eat.

Answer 7

You kill more plants by eating meat!The animal eats plants,then you eat the animal and more veggies on the side.When you cycle grain through livstock you lose 90% of the calories,96% percent of the protein,100% of the carbs and fiber.Plants do not feel pain.They don't have a brain and they don't have a central nervous sytem.

Answer 8

Pain signals are transmitted by nerves, which plants don't have. Pain is recognized by the central nervous system, which plants also don't have. Plants don't feel pain. They respond to damage in the manner programmed in their genes, but the damage does not cause them pain. You can't be cruel to a plant.

Answer 9

Yeah. They don't feel pain. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that everyone who answered before me understood that little bit of info that some people find so difficult to grasp.

Plus, if you want to be all technical, they don't really breathe. I mean, they use oxygen and stuff, but they don't have lungs :p

And keep in mind... even if plants DID feel pain, eating meat kills a lot more plants than just eating plants.

Answer 10

Huh? i do not see how i'm stimulating international warming. maximum of our CO2 emissions comes from trees, no longer flowers like tomato vines and lettuce. also omnivores devour flowers too. the actual undeniable reality that i'd devour a touch more beneficial of them isn't any outcome in the grand scale of our environment. also, i'd upload that vegetarians and vegans do no longer in trouble-free words devour flowers. We devour nuts, beans, soy, fruit, grains; and vegetarians may also devour dairy and eggs. Secondly. i'm no longer ravenous any animals. Animals in the wild have a lot to devour. the in trouble-free words ones in charge for cattle ravenous, are those who're elevating them. If I owned any animals myself, which incorporates a cow, i'd make efficient it is nicely treated. I do feed my canine time-honored and factors him water and play with him. So tell me how i'm being neglectful? i wish you recognize that a vegetarian weight-relief plan has been shown to be environmentally pleasant. i'm efficient inclusive of your tremendous understanding of water and food utilization to enhance animals, you would already recognize that. it is takes more beneficial potential, money, food and water to enhance cattle then it ever would growing to be flowers.

Answer 11

For us to survive, we have to eat but it is also our responsibility to eat what will cause less harm to beings and the planet.

We cause vegies less harm because they have simpler nervous system. Animals have more developed nervous system, so they get hurt more

We can eat people also to noursh our body but thi is not okay because we will cause them harm doing this.

When we take the tomatoes, the plant produces more tomatoes, that means nature intended it to be food for us, so we can be alive and healthy.

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