If new scientific evidence came out that proved beyond any doubt that plants have emotions and can feel pain and suffer horrible death when cut down or harvested, what would vegetarians eat then? Would they all simply just have to starve to death?
2007-08-15 14:13:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Asked and answered. That question is a variant of one of the oldest justifications for killing and eating animals.
By the way, for every pound of animals' flesh you eat, that's roughly 15 pounds of plant protein who "suffer horrible death."
2007-08-15 14:50:32 · answer #1 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
It's not the killing of animals that's the problem. It's the abuse all their lives. I eat plants but I don't mis-treat them.
There was a question here today: "Why are vegetarians here rude to non-veggers?"
What a joke.
Doloredicuore, you are dispicable. That's not rude, that's a fact.
2007-08-17 02:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by High-Fruit Low-fat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess the veggie lovers would have to find a reason to believe they were somehow worthy of living even if the poor plants had to suffer as a result... There might be a few who'd go Gandhi just as a protest to the whole business, but I'd lay money that they'd get over it before very long...
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2007-08-16 03:56:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously evidence has been done, to show that they have NO CENTRAL NERV. SYSTEM! God you people need to stop with these stupid questions, and why does almost everyone ask just Vegetarians, there Vegans on here too.
2007-08-16 04:16:58 · answer #4 · answered by Dog Lover 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Science has already proven that plants can sense pain.
It's well documnented in the book "The secret life of plants" by chris byrd.
You can get the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Plants-Peter-Tompkins/dp/0060915870
Plants are not robots they do have life, they are plant life!! Only fruitarians can claim 100% that they are consumers of foods that have not been taken from a life that has been killed.
2007-08-15 22:10:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. They would still eat them. Just like meat eaters eat animals that suffer horrible deaths. It's how we survive.
2007-08-16 00:11:10 · answer #6 · answered by Chef Orville 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Mmmhhhmmm...yeah. We would all feel SO bad for the plants we would starve ourselves. Riiiiight...
In case some of you didn't know, that was an exaggeration. What an idiot. He just wants people mad at him.
2007-08-15 23:24:37 · answer #7 · answered by Katie 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
nope... I started this way of life based on health... to each his own... but for me, that's why I started. If it came to what you said.... then so be it... I'm still not going to have clogged arteries... it's really a stupid question if you take a minute to look at it from that perspective.
2007-08-15 21:29:58 · answer #8 · answered by SST 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
i'd still eat plants. until someone can prove that they have nervous systems and brains, im not going to worry about it.
2007-08-15 22:28:58 · answer #9 · answered by chikka 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
there are actually people who believe that and only eat fruit that has fallen from the tree or stuff that is already "dead" and a lot of water
2007-08-15 22:13:58 · answer #10 · answered by Greeneyed 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋