Why Vegan???

Question

I am just curiose as to why some people choose the vegan lifestyle. Plants are living things too, how can you still eat them??? How did you decide that it is better to kill a tomato than to drink a glass of milk where nothing was killed?

J.D. You bring up the point that plants can't feel so that makes it okay. So my question then becomes if we gave cattle pain killers so they couldn't feel would that make it okay then??? People are Omnivores we are suppose to eat meat and vegitables alike it's the way the world was created the circle of life.

Kruger Freddy Krugger, if you want to be taken seriously try using spell check.

When people go into surgery and are cut open they cannot feel being cut. The same with slaughtering a cow. you vegans have these ideas of people just walking up to a cow and slashing it's throat. That's NOT what happens!

Answer 1

I believe there are at least some vegans that do it for health reasons rather then some sort of warped moral value.

I'm anxious to see what response you get from the vegans and vegetarians.

The folks who claim to be vegan or vegetarian for moral/ethical reasons may have some trouble with this question.

Personally I see no difference in the killing of a tomato and the slaughtering of animals for meat.

Oh I'm not a vegan or a vegetarian......but I have nothing against them. My problem is the attitude vegans and vegetarians seem to have towards those of us who are not vegan or vegetarian.

Answer 2

best for you :-) As for eating out.. i've got not 'ate out' in years, lol. So no suggestion for you there. Snacks? Nature Valley Peanut Butter Bars or some thing.. nuts, rice cakes, any fruit or vegetable, Triscuits, Wheat Thins... I consume a good number of cereal. With almond milk needless to say. Thomas Cinnamon Swirl bagels are relatively good. Earth stability is exceptionally lots a staple for any vegan. i'm too lazy to think of of greater, :-P you ought to examine out Peta's by twist of fate Vegan record. And continuously Google something you're uncertain approximately... particularly organic flavors! i became eating Chex mixture for the longest time earlier i found out it would desire to no longer be vegan :-( i'm hoping a number of this permits.

Answer 3

Seriously man I hope you're kidding us with that questions. Plants don't have a nervous system, which means THEY CAN'T FEEL. Animals are not here for our use, just as we aren't here for their use. We just got such big heads over time, because we feel we took over. Now we think we have the right to kill anything we please. They are alive, have families, feelings and all the same things we do. Why shouldn't we chose plants over animals? Maybe you'd do better rewording your question next time. And the thing about nothing was killed for a glass of milk, maybe not...yet. Cows are impregnated their entire lives so they can reproduce milk for us. That milk is made for their babies so they can grow rapidly in a short amount of time. Just as humans have breast milk when they are born. Us drinking cow milk is unncessary and there are PLENTY of other ways of getting calcium besides milk, just do a little research. Once these cows can no longer produce milk they are slaughtered for beef. So yeah the dairy industry in a sense is worse than the cattle industry. But neither in the end should be supported. Is that reason enough to go vegan?

Answer 4

You seem to be coming at this from a moral point of view. First of all...plants don't have a nervous system. Second, many people choose this lifestyle not because it's wrong to kill an animal, but because it's wrong to TREAT animals the way they're currently being treated at factory farms.
Personally, I eat free range organic meat. No hormones, pesticides or herbiceds in the food the animals eat...and they are all humanely treat.
Factory farms are sick. It has been standard practice to starve hens so they're eggs will be larger. It is also standard to pen pregnant pigs in a small confined area so that durging they're whole pregnancy they cannot turn around or move forward/backwards more than two feet. Cows are chained up all day long.

Answer 5

Well, tomatoes do not feel pain, but the cows that are enslaved and tortured all their lives for your milk, only to be slaughtered eventually definitely do feel pain.

We get some variation of this question at least once a day, people telling us we aren't "vegan enough" because we "kill" plants. Don't you eat plants too, or is your plate all meat? What you don't realize is that the meat and dairy you eat also took plants to produce, and far more than if you just would have eaten them directly. So, if you have some sort of problem with killing plants, then you should go vegan, as that diet kills far less plants than your current lifestyle.

Answer 6

Dude, you seriously need to go to a slaughter house and see exactly what happens to cows.

I'm vegan because we can't trust our cattle supply any more.

Plus I live in Los Angeles, which is the largest producer of cattle feed in the form of stray cats and dogs.

Thats right, do a quick Yahoo search and read all about how stray cats and dogs are used to add protien to cattle feed.

So why not cut out the middle man and just eat the dog yourself? I hear they taste like chicken anyway.

Meat is murder, and it comes across to me like you already know this deep down. You just don't want to admit it to yourself beause it means a big change for you.

Now come on brother, lets wash the blood off your hands and get you started on the right path, a vegan path that leads to a better you.

Answer 7

Not matter how many painkillers you give an animal is still going to feel having its throat slit!. Painkillers dont make you numb. I have been a vegan since I was a child. I have PKU where I cannot eat anything with protein. But even if I didnt have this I would not touch it. There is a BIG difference between killing a tomato and killing a living breathing animal.

Answer 8

well unless you are keeping the cow on the pain killers for the rest of its life so it doesnt have to have any recollection of its entire life (stuffed in a feed lot, pumped with antibiotics, transported for 33 hours in a truck with no food or water) ...oh wait...keeping an animal doped up is TOTALLY unethical. thats the stupidest idea i have ever heard. sedating the animal at death doesnt make up for the rest of its horrible life. and try another non cliche argument..the plant thing again? gettin old. plants are not animals. they are not sentient. they do not feel pain. they are healthy for you. we need them to live. we do not need animal products to live. animals deserve to be able to carry out their natural behaviors and have a normal life. i dont understand how you couldnt just take even 5 seconds to think about your question, you should be able to answer it yourself.

Answer 9

Plants don't have feelings and aren't sentient beings. I simply don't want to indirectly cause pain or death to any sentient beings (animals).

Drinking a glass of milk does kill cows and calves. For dairy cows to give milk, they need to be made pregnant. When they give birth to a male calf, very few of them would be kept alive and grow into adulthood when his semen will be collected to impregnate a dairy cow. Most male calves are shot dead at birth because they won't produce milk and milk means profit.
When a dairy cow gives birth to a female calf, again very few would be given the chance to grow into adulthood to replace their dairy mothers, and aunts when they would be sent to be slaughtered when they are 5 years old because they no longer produce as much milk as before. Cows can live up to 20 years. When dairy cows are slaughtered at the young age of five, their meat is too old so they are made into beef stock or bovril.
150,000 calves born to dairy cows are shot dead a year in the UK. Those who are left to live get to live a short and miserable life as veal calves.
So to answer your question, I don't wish to inflict pain or death to any 'sentient beings'. Tomatoes aren't animals who can feel pain. A glass of milk does kill. It kills the dairy cows and calves.

Answer 10

This question has been asked how many times this week? I swear, I don't know whether to scream or yawn when I see it. Then I think, oh, another moron doesn't know to use the search function or is just trying to wind us up. What fun.

And if you don't know the difference between a pig and a plum, you desperately need some remedial biology classes.