i have a vegetarian question?

Question

if a vegetarian is a vegetarian because he/she doesnt want to eat something that is alive why would he/she eat vegetables and fruits because theyre alive to until you cut them off of the vine and/or tree

most people who have pets do not usually consider them as having feelings but plants eat they need food and water to survive just like animals and humans

Answer 1

Because plants don't have nervous systems

Answer 2

Fruits are not alive in the since you mean, they are the left over sugar from the plant after it photosynthesis why do you think that fruits are so sweet?

Even if it were alive in the way you mean, fruits and veggies do NOT feel pain and do NOT have the fear that a cow, pig, or chicken dose when it is being boiled alive. Or having its throat slit open only to hang over a pit of dirt and growing bacteria until it’s brain is so drained, to blood it can’t move, not meaning it cant feel. Plants aren’t shoved in cages 2 feet by 3 feet with 7 of its own kind in the same cage. and they don’t feel pain when cut off the vine or tree unlike when a chickens beak is cut off so it wont peak at the other chickens after it goes insane from the hormones shoved in it to make its breast grow so big it cant move, plants aren’t tortured and don’t feel that horrid things done to them like animals do, I know some people don’t agree with what im saying and don’t want to look at the truth but that what it is for me and millions of others and if you think im pulling this out of my *** just go to http://www.afa-online.org/ and see for yourself the video is on the front page.

Do plants go through all that just to get UN-respectfully served on our plates? I think not.

Answer 3

Who's the official counter of how many times we've been asked "what about the plants"? Look, a cow,a chicken, pig will struggle and try to avoid being killed. An animal feels pain and suffers during the whole birth-to-death process. A plant, having no central nervous system and no brain, cannot feel pain and cannot feel fear as the harvesters pick it from the ground or from the tree, etc.

Go back to remedial biology and take a few classes to learn the difference between plants and animals.

And nobody i know considers a dog or cat plant to whom you give food and water, more evidence you are in desperate need of these classes.

Answer 4

You really ought to do a search of resolved questions before you venture into territory that's been beaten to death. Plants do not have a brain or a nervous system, so they do not suffer, do not feel pain, do not feel fear. Animals do. If you have never noticed the difference, you need to get out more. Nature designed me in such a way as to eat or die; I choose to eat with compassion so I choose plant foods over animal foods.

As for pets, I don't know a single person who thinks their dog or cat has no feelings. All you have to do is raise your hand to a dog that's ever been hit before to know that animals are capable of fearing pain at the hands of a human.

Answer 5

that's a good point if the person was vegetarian becuz they didn't wont to eat anything that was alive.

probably if they did they'd just eat fruits and grains, nuts , eggs and any other thing that wasn't alive.

but hardly anyone is like that.

nobody knows what plants feel like. but we have a good idea of how animals feel becuz we are a part of the animal family.

I'm vegetarian and i think its good cuz its about minimizing pain and suffering not eliminating it completely. becuz that would be impossible. but minimizing, thats good.

Answer 6

It doesn't really have to do with being alive or not, but with it having been an living, breathing, animal. Also there is the point of blood and muscles in a animal and not in fruits and other plants.

Answer 7

This question comes up in different variations almost every day.

My wife found some pieces of a chrysanthemum plant. She stuck them in the dirt about a week ago and they appear to be alive, the flowers are blooming.

My dog died last year, I buried him in my yard. I have never had dogs sprouting up from the ground; no matter how much it rains. I still miss my dog and I wish he would come back again, but it ain't gonna happen.

Plants and animals are obviously different.

Answer 8

If you have to kill the animal by yourself in order to eat it, do you think the animal would say "Yes" to you and not running away from you? Eating vegetables will take the burden off our shoulders as being a human being. At least there is less food cost, ha ha...

Answer 9

This is a very common question.

Vegetables and fruit do not have pain receptors, a nervous system, thought processes, a sense of community and self nor feelings.

If you are unsure of the difference between a stick of celery and a cow feel free to contact me and you can visit my farm to compare the 2.

Surely you can see the difference ?

Answer 10

that's really a philosophical question. However, most people do not consider plants to have feelings and emotions and feel pain or joy and thus separate them from animals, in this regard.
I talk to both my plants and animals and eat both, so ....

Answer 11

"most people who have pets do not usually consider them as having feelings"

Such people shouldn't be allowed to have pets.

Vegetarians do not eat animals. I don't know of any educated person that says that vegetarians do not eat anything that was once alive.

Animals feel

Plants do not feel.

If you stay in school, you'll learn this someday, though it shouldn't take schooling to learn something so obvious.