Are VEGETARIANS CRUEL to plants?!
Are VEGETARIANS CRUEL to plants?
Ask the plants that they murder and consume like savages.
Answers:
I think they are. Plants are living creatures too!
Yep. Can't say I don't rip into those lettuce leaves like a savage.
Grow up.
P.S. Most of the answers on here are so disturbing; what if one of you found out a friend of yours was a vegetarian. Saying they "probably kill mosquitos" too ... I don't, and neither do most vegetarians/vegans I talk to. You all need to quit relying on stereotypes and stop hating people for making a PERSONAL decision. You make me sick.
I suppose it depends if they treat the plants ethically. I mean, there's a difference between, say, tearing leaves of your basil plant (cruel torture) and picking fruit off a plant (rather natural...it would fall off anyway). So grinding up a tomato or a potato can't possibly be cruel, whereas abusing innocent living plants or killing them slowly is perhaps cruel.
Or maybe plants have no feeling(s), in which case, there can probably be no cruelty to them.
Not if they are eating the fruit (the tomato, the aubergine, the zucchini, the beans, etc). The plant doesn't die or hurt, because the fruits are supposed to fall off anyway!
idk...but vegetarions need to eat some meat some veggie people are too skinny and need some meat on them bones..guys like something to grab while *******!!!
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Courtney
They kill and eat them, so, of course they are. They've just decided that it doesn't matter.
good question, but they will sputter that what they reap they will saw again. And or that many things grow back on if you cut it. But then again, I bet they will "kill" mosquitos too. I thnik some could give you a good explanation, but not me. Sorry.
Of course they are...at least the people who eat meat kill it first...but the vegetarians eat thier food ALIVE!!!
Yes
As long as they consider meat eaters cruel.
My friend Kristen
well i am a vegetarian and I know for a fact that plants do not have nerve endings, but if they did then definitely. :)
Damn right they are cruel! We need to start an organization to protect the rights of all plants! They are living and breathing forms of life. No, really.... I have a question... Why is it that humans are the only ones who are not allowed to eat meat to survive?
Well, they are cruel to plants if they stomp on them or something, but that's it. I don't eat any creatures with a centralized nervous system. I don't actually get how meat eaters try to defend their position of eating animals by saying that other people are cruel too. I guess it's guilt that drives people to say dumb things like that. If you think eating vegetables is cruel then become a fruititarian. They don't eat any vegetable where the plant dies if you pick it. They wait for apples to fall from the tree. Instead of calling everyone cruel, then take a stand and be compassionate. The world needs more compassionate people, not more cruel ones.
Plants do not have souls like animals do.Plants do not have feelings.Have you ever heard a plant cry out?Or look at you with fear in their eyes?
If your too stupid to understand the physiological effects of the absence of a nervous system (or even a single neuron for that matter), it may seem that way. Otherwise the answer is pretty clear.
Can I just ask how we meat eaters are cruel to animals? How am I being cruel when I go to the store, buy a package of hamburger meat, take it home, and grill up some burgers? I wouldn't consider it cruel of a vegetarian to go to the store, buy a head of lettuce, and make themselves a salad. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? Food is food for goodness sake!
People, just eat what you want, and don't judge those who want to eat something different than what you do!!!!!!
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I know that was a bit random, but ya know, i get sick and tired of vegans and vegetarians giving people who eat meat a hard time. and meat eaters giving vegetarians a hard time. Everyone just needs to leave each other alone!
Seriously, ask yourself that question..... Savages come on taking this to far what about those who eat meat? Thier eating dead animals that once lived and had feelings... Plants helps us breathe but, to an extent. We can keep growing plants growing but in the end animals blood will be shed for others to eat. Where's the savage in eating a meal thats freshly grown... Do you chose to say they have feelings? Okay, I'd like to say another thing would you suggest I starve b/c I don't eat meat and my reason for not eating meat is b/c my body is senstive to it. My body goes into shock and stops my respiratory system. I have bee hospitalized and usually break down in hives with little amounts of meat. So I finally just said srew this I'll eat just greens and for those of you who say well, then you must be skinny I have you know. I'm healthy and I have to take pills to keep my protein levels normal....
If this question was a joke or not rethink what you posted....
I love syrup!
can't remember who, but someone once said.... "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.."
This question says one of 2 things:
1) You are really immature, and you think that it is fun to ask vegetarians these stupid questions....
2) You are really dumb, and you think that this is seriously a good question.
Maybe it's just a little bit of both...
Either way... it doesn't deserve an answer, but I will tell you anyway....
plants DO NOT have nerves/ nervous systems(for those of you in 2nd grade) that is what makes you feel sensations like pain.
plants also DO NOT have Brains... They are not aware of themselves...
Animals like cows, chickens, dogs, humans(you name it)... DO have these things, and CAN feel pain and be scared.
Stay in school. You'll need it.
you again... you spend a lot of time bullshitting.....
meat....veggies.....can't we all just get a bong?
1. You eat some plants too
2. plants dont have nervous systems, animals do
3. Meat eaters indirectly kill more plants, the animals that you raise for food, HAVE TO EAT PLANTS FIRST. You're the plant murderer.
LOL! We get this one all the time!
I'm a vegan, but I believe that humans should be more like fruitarians, or mostly fruitarians. By fruit, I mean a part of a plant/tree that will drop off/be removed without the plant dying. This included apples, nuts etc. It's also the most environmentally friendly diet anyone can aspire to. The bush/tree gets to live and produce more fruit, we get the fruit and by taking just the fruit, we do the tree a favour as it believes we'll poop the seeds out somewhere so another tree can grow.
I don't believe that vegetables die in agony or anything like that, but I do think that it is a waste of land to grow something and then eat it, and then have to begin the planting process over again.
My only problem with fruitarianism is that soil has been destroyed to the point where fruit (and veg for that matter) has lesser nutrients than it once did. If I lived somewhere tropical, I would consider going fruitarian. But here, in the Western world, I personally see it as pretty impossible to get a balanced fruitarian diet when fruit is so limited (especially in the UK) and have less nutriemts than they once did.
Gandhi was *almost* a fruitarian.
So, since you care so much, I imagine you're already a fruitarian?