Why go vegan/vegetarian?

Question

I have a problem with the whole "meat eaters are killers" thing. Do you eat your corn or beans while they are still alive? They have to die for you to eat. Is the life of a cow more important or is taking a life the same either way? Also whats up with using only wool from happy sheep? Think that cotton is pure? Have you ever watched crop dusters spray cotton with poison to kill it so that it can be picked? I know that my arguments sound stupid but no more so than yours. What is good for one should be good for all, it should not matter if they are made of plant or meat something will always have to die to feed us. I do not care what you do with your life but dont look down on me for living my life the way I want.

Answer 1

I just want to say to ka yun yoon and pepe, death is death. no matter if pain is felt or not, life is being taken. If we started giving livestock painkillers before slaughter, (how perverse would that be?) would you turn carnivorous? I mean no offense, but just because you say "the vegetable doesn't feel any pain" doesn't negate the fact that you took its life.

I do agree with you, however, ka yun yoon, on the point you made about the poor treatment of the animals. I've actually considered not eating meat unless I hunted and killed it myself.

being a chef, it's quite a contradiction to have the thoughts that I have, but, the animals are already dead, and the people are going to eat them if I cook it or not, so, it doesn't bother me.

Edit: myselfmarooned, are you saying the cow, or the pig is more significant than the cucumber, the carrot, or even the lilac or the rose for that matter? Do you have no aesthetics? all life is is equally important.

Answer 2

I'm neither vegan nor vegetarian, but I do enjoy vegetarian dishes and I'm a big fan of writers like Rose Elliot - her Pancake Gateau is 'to die for' I'd have no problem in being a vegetarian, but I love cheese, so being a vegan is out of the question for me.

Answer 3

It's true: whether you're eating a vegetable or some meat, something had to die. But there is a complete difference between killing an animal and killing a plant. Animals can suffer, and killing an animal is killing a breathing, feeling thing. Plants don't think, feel, or know anything. If someone's dog died, that person would be upset, because the dog could feel just like a human. But if that person's favorite plant died, it would just be silly for them to become upset. I don't look down on people for eating meat: it's just a different choice. But when I'm asked stupid questions like "Humans were meant to eat meat, so isn't it unnatural not to?" (yes, we were, but we also weren't meant to fly or drive cars, and no one's very worried about that. We don't need to!) I know that the person asking is just making excuses. Excuses for knowing what's right and not caring. But hey, that's a choice, too.

Answer 4

actually, fruit is not a living thing, vegetables are, but fruit are picked from plants/trees and are made to be consumed so its seeds will be spread. If you grow your own fruits (like me), and never spray them or use any non-organic fertilizer, it is verry ethical.
besides that, plants do not feel pain. animals do, they suffer, live misserable lives, and are subject to long and painful deaths. I love animals to much to eat them, simple as that. Also, I can't understand why some people think it is defferent eating a dog from a pig. My husband is korean, and when he lived in korea, he ate dog meat. I hate that, but I also hate that he eats any animal.
To me, it is not natural for humans to eat meat, our digestive systems are not made to do it, or we would be able to eat raw meat. But, it is a choice, the biggest problem I have is how the animals are treated, not if one eats meat or not. If the animals were treated with the respect they deseve and had quick painless deaths, I would not be upset about anyone eating meat, other animals eat other animals...
hope that helped as a politer answer from a vegan than alot you might get from other vegan/vegitarians.

Answer 5

So you are trying to convince me that eating a carrot is the same as eating a cow?

Your kinda desperate for an argument if you think that telling me my celery has been tortured and butchered is gonna fly. Plants do not feel pain.........they don't think or anything when they wilt or wither it is just a response to the stimuli presented to them.

Nobody is looking down on you but you are looking down on us (vegetarians) by presenting that BS argument and thinking it will make us see things differently.This question is posted about 20 times a day and all the meat eaters give us veggies thumbs down and think they just got us!

If you want to eat meat I do not care, in fact if you set yourself on fire I don't care.But do not try to justify your lifestyle choice by telling me I am just as bad for eating broccoli.

Answer 6

I agree completely. I also hate it when vegetarians that SMOKE are sitting there lecturing me about the health hazards of eating meat. Yeah, because we all know how good smoking is for your health.

Answer 7

i am a vegetarian and i wholeheartedly agree with you, i do not think that meat eaters are killers. i personallly don't eat meat just because i have never enjoyed the taste of it. i don't care if you eat a giant blood bursting steak in front of me while i enjoy some tofu. different strokes for different folks.

Answer 8

i eat the meat to stop the suffering of animals if they are dead there not sufferin any more can i get an amen!!!!!!

Answer 9

i agree with you all the way!! everyone is liek "why does it mtter if i eat it? i didnt kill it " Ever heard of supply and demand peoples. seriously!!

Answer 10

two thumbs up!!! I agree whole heartedly. And what about the organisms that live in vegitation, they are alive.. There is live cultures in fermented soybean curd (tofu) something has to die, its the circle of life. Heck even the Lion king cartoon states that.