To all VEGETARIANS - Dont you acknowledge that plants also have a life.?

Question

We humans harvest crops - whether early or late, its still killing.

God has given humans canines amongst tooth types.

Canines are ment for the adaptation to eating meat.

Our digestive system right throught the intestines an adaptation behaviour between carnivoris and hebivorous (we are omnivoris) - read about the different lengths of intestines for each, you will find our type inbetween herb/canivoris

i know that meat should be eaten in moderation these days - my point is that your reason for being vegetarian is to aviod killing - the veg you eat also has life.

Answer 1

cool question!!!!
im not vegetarian....
but i was before bit my reason was becoz im on a diet thats why i onli ate veggie foods!!
hahaha
i wonder how pure vegetarian answer this question!!

Answer 2

Given the arguments that most people have given to your very incendiary question, then eggs and milk are also ok, as they are products "harvested" from the host animal (in this case, the mother).

The difference between taking the life of a plant and taking the life of an animal is simple. Plants do not have freedom of movement. Animals (except for veal, which is truly a cruel way to raise an animal anyways, even for only 7 days) do.

Answer 3

I guess, to you, this is a good question. Bet you were thinking-"Ha! I've got those veg heads now!", when you were posting this.

The difference is so incredibly obvious, I'm surprised you weren't ashamed to post this all-to-common query.

Plants have no brain. No feelings. No opinion about staying there in the ground or being eaten.

If you use the same rule that outlaws animals to outlaw plants, then that just leaves us poor humans to be breatharians, doesn't it? Oh, I bet you'd pitch a fit about that.

And who says I'm a vegetarian because I'm all pro-animal life? I, PERSONALLY, AM A VEGETARIAN TO PRESERVE MY OWN LIFE, not because I'm an animal rights activist.

I've been a vegetarian for the entirety of my life. All those "normal" childhood disease? Mumps? Measles? Chicken pox?
"Every child goes through that", you may say. HA! I didn't, and neither did any of my three siblings (except my older brother, who ate meat until he was four. he got chicken pox. the rest of us were born vegetarians, and the most we've ever had was a cold.....hmm......).

Answer 4

Of COURSE I acknowledge that plants are alive. However, I also acknowledge that I am a living thing and need to fuel my body in order to stay that way. I feel that the most ethical way to do it is to eat low on the food chain.

You assume that our "reason for being vegetarian is to aviod [sic] killing" but that's only a chapter in the book. We vegetarians have chosen it for a wide variety of reasons from the ethical to the environmental to the medical. You don't have to agree with us but the argument that since we're killing plants we might as well be killing animals too is nonsense.

Answer 5

>>>my point is that your reason for being vegetarian is to aviod killing - the veg you eat also has life.>>>

I'm a vegan because I want to avoid causing suffering and exploitation of animals. Plants dont have central nervous system, so they cant suffer.

I DONT need meat or other animal products to survive, but I do need food from the plants.

If you're really worried about consuming plants: Most fruit and vegetables is just fruit from the plant, not the actual plant, so the root is still in the ground and the plant continues to grow.

There are many strong and beautiful vegan animals, like elephants, giraffes, horses, etc... Veganism is not something invented by humans.

Meat makes people sick. Heart condition and many types of cancer could be avoided if people didnt eat meat.

About human teeth, why dont you try to catch an animal with only your hands, and then sink in your teeth through their thick skin/fur? You would never be able to do that. So DONT tell me our teeth are designed for this. You cant eat meat unless you cook it to death.

If you think that your(christian?) god supports animal cruelty that goes on in slaughterhouses, then what is left for the devil to do? I suggest you see some of those videos, like "meet your meat" on youtube, before you say that this is what god wants from you.

Answer 6

I do know that plants are alive, but the main difference between them and animals is that animals have a brain and a central nervous system. They can feel pain and they can suffer when they are mistreated. Totally uncool in my book.

As far as canine teeth, that theory is laughable at best. Do human canines compare to those canines of lions or tigers? Not in the least. THOSE teeth are designed for tearing and consuming flesh. Did you know that their stomach acid is about 5x as potent as ours? That's so they don't have to COOK their meat before they consume it. We must prepare ours as such in order to avoid getting sick. To me, that hardly points to any "facts" that we are supposed to eat meat. And finally, the digestive tracts of meat-eating animals is much shorter than that of human beings. Their excrement is produced shortly after eating the meat, while meat can stay in a human for days on end....all the while rotting in the process. Sorry. Your "argument" is full of holes.

Answer 7

Normal foods eaten by vegeterian people :

1. Fruits.
2. Grains/seeds.
3. Leaves.

Very few of these involve killing of entire plants/trees. But when you eat chicken you have to kill it.

So when you are being vegetarian you are :

1. Sparing the animals.
2. Eating plant parts/fruits which were naturally meant for that same purpose.

Answer 8

I am a vegetarian. I have been a vegetarian for almost a year. Yes. You are right. But you don't take their life, just what is on them. They are still living after you take the food. So the plants still have life.

P.S. Nice Question.

Answer 9

This is not really a question, this is just a commentary on how you are, for some reason, mad at vegetarians even though they affect you in no way, shape or form. And if you are harassed by a vegetarian, realize that he or she is probably an idiot in most aspects of life and that most vegetarians do not harass anyone.

Oh ... and vegetables don't have a life. Do they bleed? Do you take your tomato for a walk? Besides the fact that not everyone out there is an animal rights/welfare activist. Don't bother me with your preaching and I won't bother you with mine.

Answer 10

The earth lavishes to us immeasurable amounts of innocent foods that don't require bloodshed, which satisfies fully and completely human's nutritional needs and values. Plants are these innocent foods, they are living things that don't bleed, cry out or struggle in pain and have no central nervous system to feel pain. These are the natural foods that God has given to Man to feed on.

Let's contrast human physiology with that of carnivores. Teeth, nails, and jaw structure indicate that nature intended for people to eat a plant-based diet. They have much shorter and softer fingernails than animals and pathetically small "canine" teeth, the ones you're talking about, the ones that have an almost unnoticeable slight tip (they're canine in name only). In contrast, carnivores all have sharp claws and large canine teeth that well extends beyond their other teeth, capable of tearing flesh. The jaws of carnivores move only up and down, requiring them to tear chunks of flesh from their prey and swallowing it whole. Humans and other herbivores can move their jaws up and down and from side to side, a movement that allows them to grind up fruit and vegetables with their back teeth. Like other herbivores, human back molars are flat and allow the grinding of fibrous plant foods. Carnivores lack these flat molars. If humans had been meant to eat meat, they would have the sharp teeth and claws of carnivores. Instead, their jaw structure, flat molars, and lack of claws indicate that they are best suited for a plant-based diet.
Also, carnivores have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly whereas herbivores and humans have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.
Carnivores have strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest meat whereas herbivores and humans have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a carnivore's
Carnivores have salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits whereas herbivores and humans have well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits
Carnivores have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains whereas herbivores and humans have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains.
It's hard to argue with the facts that humans are meant for a plant based diet. People may find it hard to accept or believe even though the facts are right in front of their eyes because ultimately, you can't make someone believe or do something that they are determined not to believe or do because they have already closed their minds or shut themselves out to (even if it's for the better).
The thing is, people have been CONDITIONED to eat meat. Meat is conveniently cooked and flavored to remove or disguise the natural taste and humans grow up getting used to the taste.
Since humans go against how nature intended for our diet to be, we therefore introduce many kinds of health problems by our UNnatural diet.
There are many questions one could ask a meat eater that would probably stump them as they would have no credible facts, logical explanation or even reasons to justify their choice other than perhaps the only and obvious reason being their love for the taste of meat and that they still believe meat is a necessity for growth and nutrition even though the facts say otherwise.
Everyone eats for himself. What one eats is ultimately his choice, because in the end, you are what you eat.

Answer 11

I'm not sure what you get out of trying to nit pick this issue with people who obviously see a much bigger picture of life than you can. They have made their choice of lifestyle.
You are free to consider it and reject it, but they don't really have to defend themselves to you or anyone.
The fact that you think you found a glitch in their position says more about you than it does about them.
It's a shame. You sound too young to have developed such a closed minded view of the world already.