How to deal with the "plant's are alive" people?!
How to deal with the "plant's are alive" people?
Answers:
"But don't plants also possess life?"; "Don't you kill plants?"; "And if you kill plants, why not non-human animals?". Plants have no central nervous system, and so, it is highly dubious, if not impossible, that they are capable of feeling pleasure or pain, and certainly have no concept of self. Secondly, plants do not possess any of the attributes mentioned earlier, being the ability to feel anxiety, to have the will and ability to avoid sources fo danger because of memory, etc. And anyway, even if we were to allow plants some rights, to opt to "kill" plants and not non-human animals would be to choose the necessary and lesser evil, if we are to live. If we breed non-human animals so that we murder them for food, we are killing both the animals and the plants that these animals eat
Tell em to eat rocks.
There is nothing you can eat unless it was alive at one sense or another.
Tell them how the plants scream when you bite them in half.
We have to eat, as does any other animal.
We are natural omnivores so, as long as we eat what we kill, and kill only to eat, I see nothing wrong in eating either plants or animals.
It is only because we are sentient beings that we concern ourselves over such niceties. A lioness does not feel emotion when it kills a zebra to feed herself and her family, and I've never seen a sheep shedding a tear when it eats a daisy.
Insecticide
plants are alive, but they do not scream
Plants can't talk, they don't have any form of communication, they don't have children, they aren't affectionate, they can't feel. plants aren't injected with six types of hormones, as animals are. they are healthy and aren't tortured. ummm, have i missed anything?
Ask what they think people should eat. They think you are going to eat rocks or something? Anything they eat ate plants at some point (either by eating plants or another animal that ate plants).
There are only 3 kinds of materials on this earth; animal, vegetable and mineral.
Of those, 2 are "living" with a lifespan and, of course, the minerals are not.
They way I look at it, it is one huge food chain. Every living thing consumes another living thing in one way or another. Humans are at the top of the food chain. Everything from human down to mineral is edible.
Some people prefer to eat only vegetables and green growing things; others prefer the variety of consuming right up the chain.
I am a omnivore. My son is vegan and my daughter is vegetarian. They choose their diet based on personal preference and their attitude toward the "animal" world. I'm perfectly fine with that. It is their choice. Now, if they preached at me for being an omnivore or railed at others for consuming meat and fish, that would be the end of their "rights".
Like religion, eating habits are in the pervue of "butt out".
Well, for all we know plants are alive!! However, they have no nervous system so we can only assume if they are alive, they can't feel anything. Who would say such a thing anyway?!?
God tells you to be vegan:
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so. 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
copy paste this or memorize it:
You kill less plants by eating them directly,by cycling food through livestock you lose 96% percent of the calories that you put into it.Animals raised for foods in the U.S. use of half of all the water used in the U.S. You can feed 100 kids rice,or only four of them meat.The least efficient plant food is tens times efficient as the most efficient animal food.The rate of repetitive stress injury for slaughterhouse employees is 35 times higher than it is for those with other manufacturing jobs,Human Rights Watch says "Meatpacking is the most dangerous job in America".For every acre of land plowed down for urban development,seven acres are cut down to grow food for animals or for grazing land for animals.If everyone in the U.S. reduced their meat consumption by 10%,it would free up enough land to grow food for 100 million people(there are about 20 million starving).Livestock in the US produce 20 times the excrement of the entire US population.If everyone in the U.S. went vegan,we could cut our imports on oil by 60%.Methane is one of the four greenhouse gasses that contributes to the environmental trend known as global warming. The 1.3 billion cattle in the world produce one fifth of all the methane emitted into the atmosphere.The direct and hidden costs of soil erosion and runoff in the US, mostly attributable to cattle and feed crop production, is estimated at $44 billion a year.Feeding the average meat-eating American requires 3-1/4 acres of land per year. Feeding a person who eats no food derived from animals requires only 1/6 acre per year. A scientist, reporting in the industry publication Confinement, calculated in 1976 that the planet's entire petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 13 years if the whole world were to take on the diet and technological methods of farming used in the U.S. So not only are killing more plants than I am,you are also using up tons of water,you are contributing to the killing of animals(26 billion,just in the US),you are contributing to deforestation,you are contributing to world hunger,you are contributing to soil erosion,you are contributing to global warming,you are contributing to exploitation of workers,you are contributing to enviromental pollution,and you are contributing to the war for oil.All of that for what,your own tasebuds?
You should feel really bad by now.
http://meat.org/
Lillyian posted this link in her blog, I think you'll find it useful: http://www.peta.org/living/at-fall2000/s...