if you are a vegeterian, why dont you eat animals and you do eat vegetables?arent they BOTH living things??

Answer 1

Ha, I like your question. Touche.
There is a Simpsons episode where one of the characters says he is a "level 5 vegan" He doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow. *chuckle*

Answer 2

Yes they are living things.

But the difference is obvious.

It's easy to relate to the life in animal as being much like our own. Especially if the animal is a chordate (has a backbone). My dog grabbed a mouse. The mouse's body appeared to be in a spasm, and also appeared to have difficulty breathing. It died within a few minutes.

I have never seen plants act like that. I pull a weed and it just lays there. Sure, maybe they do feel pain in their own way, but I have never seen any evidence of it.

Answer 3

I dunno. Cruelty and inhumane treatment just don't really apply to vegetables. Some of the conditions people put animals through just to get a higher yield and cheaper meat are really quite cruel. If someone uses super-fertilizer to get twice as much corn, I really don't feel the least bit bad.

I am neither here nor there on fish. I eat them, but I do believe they have some sense of pain. Still overcrowded farming of fish just doesn't bother me, or giving them hormones.

Plus, (unless you fry them) fish and vegetables are healthy. I would probably also eat lean cuts of other meats if the conditions for animals were better.

Answer 4

I can't see obvious signs of pain when I cut my vegetables. Animals show signs of extreme pain and stress when you cut them. I don't want to watch animals in pain, and I don't want to have some underpaid mexican killing animals on my behalf so I can pretend that the pain isn't happening. I'm not saying that if I was starving to death I wouldn't eat meat, but as long as I can make the choice not to eat meat, I will.

Answer 5

Because animals feel pain, and plants do NOT. Animals have emotions, and plants do not. Animals have the capacity to flee (or try to) predators and those who would do them harm. Plants do not.

If you cannot tell the difference between a carrot and a cow, might I suggest you take a remedial biology class or three.

Answer 6

In a way your question is a very good one, however, vegetarians dont see that an animal needs to be killed for their pleasure of eating it. They dont look at vegetables as being killed. I know someone who wont even eat eggs because they come out of an animal.

Answer 7

not that this really applies to me, but most vegetarians don't' eat meat because of the cruelty undergone by the animal sources of this meat. vegetables, however, have no nerves, and therefore cannot feel pain or injustice.

Answer 8

Animals have a central nervous system. They react as humans do when they are injured. They form attachments and bond with other animals and people. They can learn. They have a level of sentience. Then we crate them, burn off their beaks, inject, implant and feed them with hormones and antibiotics, cut off their tails, tie them down so they cannot move, and do all of this without anaesthetic.

Somehow, that just seems to me to be far worse than anything anyone has ever done to a stalk of corn.

Answer 9

Did it ever occur to you that plants grow fruits and veggies for the purpose of animals eating them and spreading their seeds around? It is designed to be a symbiotic relationship.
Animals gain no such advantage in being eaten. The only advantage they recieve is a evolutionary one of having the weak thinned from their ranks, a process that has been completely removed by factory farming. Instead we seek to weaken their evolutionary ability by homogonizing them for optimum meat and dairy production.

never thought i'd get to use that twice in a day...

Answer 10

Is there any hope for education ?

Surely you can see the difference between a cow and a stick of celery ?

cows, sheep, pigs and chickens have: feelings, moods, feel pain, have a sense of community and self. They have a brain with which to process pain and fear

Answer 11

plants dont have a central nervous system, therefore they cannot feel pain. animals do. plus, we have been proven herbivores tons of times by scientists. all nutrients we get is from plants; even if you eat animals, the nutrients you get from animals is second hand from the plants that animal ate