To all vegetarians - if you knew plants had feelings and personalities just like animals......?

Question

would you still eat them?

Just because you cant see something doesnt mean it isnt their.

Answer 1

The criterion concerning suffering is survival, so you cause the minimum suffering necessary for survival. Mammals and birds provide most meat, and they are social, which gives them a moral edge because it means more suffering is caused. Also, it isn't even necessary to kill plants to survive. You can eat fruit, which is often supposed to be eaten for the plant to reproduce. Giving birth is painful too.

Besides, there are other reasons than direct suffering of the organisms involved. There is the excessive use of resources for animals to be reared for food, the fact that they end up eating what could be fed to humans, the environmental damage caused by livestock farming and the health benefits of vegetarianism.

For me, one interesting question is whether it's OK to use natural sponges.

Answer 2

The diet that Adam and Eve ate was vegetarian. When meat was added to the diet many years later, the life span of people went from 900+ years to 75 over time.
I am not vegetarian now but have been in the past and might be someday soon again. My reasons have had nothing to do with personailties of animals or their feels, but the fact that a vegetarian diet is healther! And everything that you can get from meat is second hand nutrition, you can get ever possible nutrient better and more effeciantly if you eat the plants and vegies!

Answer 3

Well, even if they did--I'll take this idiotic hypothetical (and I do stress the hypothetical part) and run with it for a moment--did you know that by eating meat, you're causing the death of more plants than if you were vegan? I mean, those animals you eat--who actually DO have feelings and DO have personalities--have to eat something. And they are fed plants--not to mention broiler litter and rendered slaughterhouse waste. And it takes between three and sixteen pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

So if you really care about the plants--and I'm pretty sure you don't because there are a hell of a lot of trolls asking about the plants just to irritate the veg*ans--you'll go vegan and reduce the senseless slaughter of poor plants. /sarcasm.

And don't you mean "can't," "doesn't," "isn't," and "there"? Learn to spell, meater.

Answer 4

Even if plants do have feeling and do suffer, which is possible, even though unlikely, at least as we know pain and feelings, then being a vegetarian, and even more so a vegan, is less cruel. Simply because we eat less plants than a meat-eater. Whereas we just eat plants directly, a meat-eater eat a dead animal who eat plants for a few months before dying. So by eating meat, you are eating about 7 to 10 times more plants. So if you believe plants suffer: go vegan.

Answer 5

Thinking plants have feelings and personalities is just a distraction technique to try and justify killing animals. We've seen it on here a million times before

If you can't tell the difference between a stick of celery and a cow then there is little point in you asking any questions here, and perhaps you should ask for an education tax refund.

Plants have no nervous system, no brain with which to process thought, pain, feeling , distress, mood. They have no sense of community nor self. There is no scientific evidence to suggest plants have feelings or personalities.

Answer 6

Plants have no brains and no central nervous system.Without that thoughts and emotions are not possible in the way they are in animals.On the other hand plants are alive and should be treated with respect-so although eating them to survive is fine hacking down trees for fun isn't etc.

If you want people to take you seriously learn that the word is 'can't' not 'cant','isn't' not 'isnt' and 'doesn't' not 'doesnt'. Also in the sentence you wrote you should have used 'there' not 'their'

Answer 7

I eat plants as a means of surrival. I do my best not to waste the food I eat and grow my own herbs etc

I also ate a lot of home grown fruit and vegtables when I could.

I choose not to eat meats because I believe that I do not have to cause harm to anything more than I already do.

I also firmly believe that if I can not kill it myself then I shouldn't be eating it

Answer 8

yes i think I would. Interesting notion though. It really depends on your motivation for becoming a vegaterian. I am an ex vegaterian having gone back to eating meat last year after 15 years off it. I chose not to support the cruel methods used on livestock by boycotting meat and this situation does seem to have improved in recent years altho i am no expert.

At least now you have more awareness and are able to read packaging etc to determine what you want to buy. that has made a big difference to my choices. If I felt like it, i'd become a vegaterian again it is really just down to personal choice. i didn't miss meat.

Answer 9

Yeah, I know what you mean, but I know they don't.

Since I stopped taking acid about 30 years ago, I don't really worry about what I would do if the side walk suddenly turned into glass or if my family were all fruit bats. It's just a waste of time to speculate about things that aren't true. There plenty of real problems in the world, why not focus on them and do something productive?

Answer 10

Well, I might wind up going fruitarian. However, since plants lack central nervous systems, I'm going to say that they probably don't have feelings or personalities. You need a cerebral cortex for those things.