why is it it O.K. to eat plants and not animals?

Question

Plants are living things as well, they have male and female , they breed by the male fertilizing the female, they have a life cycle, they have a kind of rudimentory nervous system, they react to the sun, light , heat and touch( sunflowers and Venus fly traps are examples) The fact that they do not move and don't appear to have the characteristics of animals does not make them impervious to feelings such as pain when they are chopped down. And how do we know they don't feel sorrow when we collect their offspring in the form of fruit, nuts and seeds?

Answer 1

Plants have no nervous system (venus fly traps and other examples of plant moment are made using water pressure and cell growth.) They also have no brain.

Therefore they cannot feel pain or fear like animals do.

Seriously why do you care that we don't eat meat?

Answer 2

Plants do not have the equipment to feel pain or emotional distress. Plus, Nature requires that all of us take sustenance somewhere or we will waste away. If I was a tree, I'd get by on soil and sunlight, but I can't so I must eat. I choose compassion over killing when I eat. Why on Earth should this bother you?

Plus, eating a plant-based diet is better for the environment and going vegan is the most powerful "green" choice an individual can make for themselves. When you add in the fact that plant proteins come packaged with fiber and phytonutrients, whereas animal proteins come packaged with cholesterol and saturated fat, I can't think of any reason why you'd eat animals.

Answer 3

in particular that's b/c animals can experience soreness, and flora can not. although, it is likewise b/c flora are no longer sentient beings, and have no care over climate they stay or die. maximum sentient beings care approximately with the ability to stay. maximum animals and human beings will combat to the final breath to stay, some thing that a plant does not. Why is my existence extra important than something? i do no longer want to die(notably in a terrible way), so i'm no longer prepared to take some thing i wouldn't in any respect conform to furnish. that's what it comes right down to for me. in spite of an anesthetic, you're nevertheless robbing some thing of its ideal to exist, so that's extra advantageous than merely soreness and suffering, that's what makes an animals existence extra important than a plant. An animal lives a existence, like a human, a plant is merely alive.

Answer 4

1. Plants are not "living" in the same way you are living. They are "living" in the way your toenails are living. They grow and react to stimuli, but they are not alive.

2. There are not male and female plants, plants have both sets of equipment.

3. Of course they have a life cycle. Even rocks eventually melt and become new rocks.

4. They do NOT have a nervous system, not even a rudimentary one.

5. They are impervious to pain because to feel pain to need something to process it... i.e. a brain and central nervous system.

6. They do not feel sorrow because of the reasons stated in 5.

Answer 5

Spiritually speaking, eating animals is not good for you.

You are what you eat..i think everyone knows it . By eating animals you are putting more animal characteristics in to you and most extreme Human animal is named as Terrorists. How many of you like them ???

My point is, eating animal wont benefit you at all. According to me children over 5years should not even consume the cow`s milk...Some people may say that its cruel to kill animal, that may be a point to think about it,But more than that i feel we are not supposed to kill the living creature for our own selfishness....
Again selfishness is the animal characteristics and to add up with that there are many more words solely belongs to the list of animal characteristics. ( Anger,greedy etc)

( Love animals too...Dont just show love to your dog/cat and hate other animal, for me its a double standard
treatment)

Answer 6

Basically the rationale is that you have to eat *something* to stay alive, right?

I know many vegetarians who take exception with farming practices, etc. But I don't agree that because one person doesn't eat meat they have "saved 300 animals a year" as I have heard some claim. Those animals got slaughtered anyway--someone else bought them. It's not like you have your personal meat supply numbered and docketed.

Many vegan women I know actually have acknowledged eating disorders; I guess it's easier to say "Oh I can't eat that, because it has animal products in it" than to say "I have trouble eating anything at all."

I am near-vegetarian (and if I lived alone I would not eat meat at all) but **it's a choice.** I just prefer vegetables, grains and fruit to meat. I do occasionally eat meat, if we're out and there's nothing else available, or if my husband cooks something with meat in it I will have a small portion. Because **it's a choice** and I value his love and help.

A vegan lifestyle can get expensive, if you add the "organic" thing in. In many places, "organic" simply translates as "three times the price of normal". Meat analogs are also very, very pricey--often more than the meats they replace. So if you're eating vegetarian out of concern for resources, as some do, Whole Foods is not the way to go.

To the militant vegans I know, I say this: if you didn't like it, you wouldn't eat it. It's all about preference and choice.

Answer 7

"Plants do not have pain receptors, a central nervous system not a brain to process pain, thought and fear"-----neither do clams, oysters, scallops or any bivalve.

They claim they can kill plants because plants can't feel pain even though they react to pain stimulus. But, they still won't eat bivalves who also can't feel pain because they don't have brains. So, feeling pain cannot be the reason. Death cannot be the reason either as bot h plants and bivalves would die.

So what is the reason? Is it simply because plants are in a fixed position and bivalves can move?

Answer 8

ok..... lets see plants don't scream, they don't show emotion, they don't need love, or corection..... an animal is much more than a plant. They both grow and all but you pull a ruit off a plant.... it just makes more. You take a baby from a cow.... the mother is sad, and the baby is scared..... they need love. we as people are equal to animals in our actions. Why not eat them?? Well, animals eat other animals ad that can't be stopped, but at the same time we can be stopped. So why put them in more pain.... whay take those animals away??
I don't know if you are understanding what i am saying but i hope this helps..... good day to you.

Answer 9

no plants do not have nervous systems of any kind. they react to light and other stimulus via cascade pathways of hormones. a nervous system involves having neurons that use electrical impulses. our nervous system relies on electric impluse as well as change in membrane potential, not the same as plants. they just dont feel pain. we just know. its been done to death

Answer 10

It's funny, this question is asked about 3-5 times a week, at least. None of the meat eaters ever seem to catch on to the fact that raising animals for food uses far MORE plants than just eating the plants first-hand. Your "food animals" must eat the plants and process them over months or years before you eat them, it's a terribly inefficient process, energy-wise.

So, the next time one of you meaters wants to ask this question, remember two things:

1.) You eat plants, too. I'm sure your diet doesn't consist of only meat. You would eventually become very ill and probably die.

2.) By eating meat, you are responsible of the destruction of about ten times the amount of plants vegans are.

I am pretty sure that no one who asks this asinine question actually believes in it (they are just trying desperately to justify their actions), but in case someone really thinks vegans are immoral and cruel for eating plants, just remember that, by your own ridiculous logic, you are still causing more harm and death than we are.