Why do Vegetarians say they are vegitarians to protect animals when....?

Question

They kill many more plants to make their salad than a meat eater kills animals when they eat a steak?

You people don't seem to understand that when you eat some meat you arn't even eating the full animal. Many people are fed out of just one animal. Also if anyone that says "we aren't hurting the plant by eating its produce" you are overlooking the fact that say if you are eating a tomato, you are killing lots of potential plants by eating the seeds!

I am not making more world hunger! Anyone who says that there is not enough food for everyone is lying. Have you noticed how much extra food Americans eat and how much they throw away. Meat eating is not by any means the biggest factor in world hunger.

The animals we eat would eat the plants weather we ate them or not and in fact by eating the animals we are stopping them from killing more plants

You know what I just give up... no matter what you do you kill things....

Answer 1

People are vegetarians for a lot of different reasons. Your question is valid; and is explained mainly by the fact that plants, we assume, don't feel pain, nor are the conscious beings. So, while plants are indeed living beings, we feel better about killing them because they don't suffer, and they don't scream as loud.

Answer 2

I believe you're wrong. The amount of plants I'd be responsible for killing by making a salad is far less than the amount of plants you would be responsible for killing by eating a steak. The cow you get your steak from could eat more grain in a month than me and my whole family could in the same amount of time. So frankly, I don't care how many plants I eat; Animals are being fed more plants to yield meat than I'm responsible for by making a bowl of salad. The things an animal goes through just for us to eat it is unbelievable, painful and horrid. What a plant goes through doesn't matter because it can't feel anything, or think about it because, obviously, it has no brain or central nervous system. Once an animal has been slaughtered, it's dead and that's all there is to it. When you eat produce, you can always grow another one that will be just like the first one.

Answer 3

I should wait for Vegan&Proud to answer... but hey I'll take a stab... Do you know how many plants it takes to feed the animals you eat??? A lot more plants than we eat directly...so you would actually be killing less plants as a vegan...
Also Plants do not have brains or central nervous systems... just in case you are too dumb to put 2 and 2 together... Plants can not feel pain... anyone that thinks so, needs to go back to 2nd grade!

(Response to your edit)
Obviously you are too dumb to put 2 and 2 together!
Don't you understand that by eating meat that you are SUPPORTING the meat industry... and even though you do not eat the whole cow... You are still causing a demand for the whole cow to be killed...causing a demand for it to be fed more plants! And you are indirectly killing more plants then we do directly!
And AGAIN plants do not have feelings!! They do not feel pain! So I have no problem eating them. Bringing up the fact that I am killing more tomatoes by eating the seeds doesn't affect me. Don't act like you know what you are talking about... because you really don't.

HAHA you are just plain wrong and for some reason you feel the need to justify yourself to us.... Are you 5th grade? cause you sound like you are...

Answer 4

My hats off to you for this question. besides the actuality that i'm no longer a vegetarian at present, I even have been. consistent with have been i elect to take a stab at answering this. My being a vegetarian had each thing to do with healthful and a splash of religion. My being a vegetarian has in no way been approximately animal rights. I carry a human existence far bigger than I do an animal existence. this is to no longer say i do no longer value animal existence. reason a existence is important human or animal. God created existence end of tale! as far as abortions i'm against them. i can't think of of a physically powerful clarification for them, no longer one! yet that having been suggested i could could desire to call myself professional decision. Abortions befell earlier Roe-v-Wade. a tragic reality yet they specific did. The worst reason ever for an abortion is start administration. _______ i will see the relationship you have made and wow how effectual.

Answer 5

plants have no nerves so they dont feel the pain of being slaughtered . they also can be planted over and over again and produce more food than animal.why kill animals for food when you dont have to? answer that question.

Answer 6

Where man kill animals not only to eat, they kill for fun and will do so to near or extinction of that animal (the North American Buffalo to name one). And you never heard of a plant being extinct because of Vegetarians eating it or Vegetarians just killing it for fun.

Answer 7

If you bothered to research then you might know the proper details.

More than half of the agricultural land used to grow crop in the US is classified as feed crop. So more land in the US is used to feed animals than people.

Greater demand for livestock has caused companies to convert land to grow even more feed crop. The Amazon rainforest is being cut down to grow plants mainly to feed animals, not people.

The amount of water needed to support these activities is tremendous. Approximately more than half of the water going into the Southern California region is for crops and livestock.

Answer 8

One point of being a vegetarian is that many families can be fed from the grain it takes to produce one cow. It takes 17 pounds of grain to make one pound of beef. Seventeen families could have one pound of rice, or one family could have a pound of beef. See?

As for your other point, FOR ME, there's a difference between eating a fruit, and eating a living creature.

In the immortal words of Yukon Cornelius, you eat what you like, and I'll eat what I like.

Answer 9

a animal is a living breathing creature, while a plant is a plant, it doesn't have feelings. Animals that people eat are treated cruely!

Answer 10

i've been vegetarian for 5 days and i'm fifteen.

though i believe in helping and protecting animals, that wasn't the reason i went veg.

it was more a personal thing for me. i just think, if it weren't for someone else killing this cow for me, i wouldn't be eating this steak.

so now i just eat fish, cos that is the only animal i would ever kill myself. i wouldn't kill a cow, sheep, pig, chicken, so i'm not going to eat them. i'm just trying to be less ignorant and more aware of my surroundings, i guess.

but i admit, i used to think vegetarians and vegans were stupid, but it has only been in the past month or two that i've really changed.