to vegetarians,why do u oppose the slaughtering of animals and carry mass murder on herbs, legumes, and fruits

Question

Vegetables are living beings too, or haven't u been taught that at school?

I know Vegetables are inable to feel pain, but when eating a vegetable you're taking away its life. The only alternative is to eat fruits.
But can you carry on in your life picking up the fruits that fall from trees?

Answer 1

Although they're living entities, they lack components like complex central nervous systems. I'm all for letting trees be trees, and respecting the environment, but I believe people only ask questions like this knowing they're going to stir up some helpless little animal-loving vegans. Find me a fruit that screams in pain and bleeds when you pick it, and I'll consider changing by diet.

Answer 2

Well, seeds and seed pods (includes many fruit berries beans legumes grains) are meant to be eaten, then taken somewhere else and pooed out onto the ground where they will hopefully grow. Many seeds will not activate until passing through the digestion of an animal first. Leaves grow back. Many plants don't even survive the winter; they just grow, make seeds, die off and the next year their seeds will grow again. Perhaps they do feel pain, but just not in the same way we do. People who fish are always saying that fish feel no pain. Many plants do survive the winter, but shed their leaves and grow them again the next spring. I don't know, I don't see a problem with eating vegetation, fruit, seeds, nuts, etc. There are some people out there that only eat things which plants willingly give up to them; it's possible to eat this way.

Answer 3

Most reasonable vegetarians are opposed to the treatment of animals by the industry, some are obsessed with the ides of everyone being vegetarian. These obsessed people are as uniques as are fundamentalists who would bomb abortion clinics to save fetuses.

Truly, most meat eaters would shudder at the idea of killing an animal, so some poor soul is paid to do it at a slaughterhouse. I say to meat eaters: Unless you CAN and HAVE killed an animal for food, you have no right to eat it. There is no honor in it, nor in the meat industry. A lifetime of suffering versus a good grazing life--who would argue that? The end result is a big bullet to the brain, lights out, no real suffering.

In closing, if more people served non-meat food Id enjoy it immensely, but am forced to eat it when there is nothing else. I eat meat only because I have to, and it is justified only by philosophy and Romans 14, if by chance you are christian.

Answer 4

Actually Fruit and Vegetables both carry the seven characteristics of life i.e.:
Movement
Respiration
Sensitivity
Growth
Reproducion
Excreetion
Nutrition
so technically vegetarians/vegans are taking away life of sorts although it is not quite the same as taking the life of a cow or pig.
A cow or pig etc has organs (e.g. lungs, heart, stomach etc) and it also has a face and as is my understanding vegetarians and vegans dont consider it ethical to eat another living thing with a face.
Animals are more close to human form than plants or fruit and veg are.
i am not a vegan or vegetarian so i dont know all 'the facts' or have any 'Perssonal Experience' from it and this is purely from reading up around the subject of vegetarianism for a seminar paper that i am doing. .

Answer 5

Alright you don't seem to be convinced that there is at least some difference between animals and plants, so how about this. Do you know how many helpless plant have to die to raise an animal in the first place? for example 80% of the cereal crops grown in American are to feed farm animals. It takes 14 pounds of grain to make 1pound of meat. So lets just say that plants and animals are the same because they are alive. So by not eating meat, less living things die in the end, so I would still be much happier as a vegan.

Answer 6

It's wrong that animals are mass produced for their meat and by-products, and forced to live in torturous conditions until they are horrendously slaughtered. What is the difference between an animals muscles on a plate and a humans muscles? The only difference is the social importance we place on ourselves as humans over the animals! Fruit, veggies and legumes don't even compare.
IF SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAD GLASS WALLS, EVERYONE WOULD BE VEGAN!

Answer 7

I guess they didn't teach you about central nervous systems ;)

The reason I became a vegetarian is due to the torture animals are put through. Plants aren't aware of what's going on around them, they pretty much just grow. So I'll gladly eat a head of lettuce over a cow any day.

Answer 8

you are an idiot. Fruits are living too. Vegetable plants quickly renew themselves, and if they were not picked and eaten they would rot and go to waste. If I pick a cucumber today, their will be two in its place tommorow. They do not have a beating heart, warm blood, or nurse their young. You are obviously a veggie wannabe, who hasnt the balls to do it. Quit picking on us because you feel guilty that something bled and died so you can feed your greedy face. Get a clue

Answer 9

I also find it funny that vegetables are also living things but its ok to rip them up out of the ground (killing them ) and this is o.k. because they dont have a face but have a problem with people who eat meat.

Answer 10

If you're going to argue that vegetables are living beings and shouldn't be killed, you're going to also have to argue that we shouldn't kill bacteria and fungi.

You want to not kill anything? Then kill yourself. It's the only way to save all those poor little bacteria that your immune system would slaughter!