Vegetable?!
Vegetable?
vegetarians says the eating meat is cruel cause they are living things and they should live but why do they eat vegetable which is a living thing and never say is cruel dosen't a vegetable counted as a living thing? And why do u think vegetarians think it cruel of eating meat but not vegetable?
Additional Details1 month ago
i am not trying to be smart ok and i am just saying that we do not treat vegetable the same as animals and for all of your infomation plants have feelings yes they do not cry or shout but they are living things. Do put yourself in their shoes, you can't shout nor cry when u are pull out of where u are. and one more thing i did not mean that u are cruel went u eat veggie
1 month ago
do not call me a freak is pretty much pop out of my head
1 month ago
the thing that i said abt plants have feeling had been justifieid by sciencetist
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1 month ago
i am not trying to be smart ok and i am just saying that we do not treat vegetable the same as animals and for all of your infomation plants have feelings yes they do not cry or shout but they are living things. Do put yourself in their shoes, you can't shout nor cry when u are pull out of where u are. and one more thing i did not mean that u are cruel went u eat veggie
1 month ago
do not call me a freak is pretty much pop out of my head
1 month ago
the thing that i said abt plants have feeling had been justifieid by sciencetist
I don't know if you are trying to be smart, because you want to justify eating meat or if you are really serious, but I shall give you an answer to both possibilities:
If you are trying to be clever, then you failed. Yes, of course vegetables are living things. For us to live, something must die. It is as simple as that and I will expand on this statement in a minute. However, if you take off the blinkers for a second, you don't honestly think that eating a vegetable is the same as eating a cow, sheep or pig, do you? Do I really have to state what should be glaringly obvious and that animals are more highly evolved forms of life?
The trouble is that every subject known to man is contentious and people can justify anything (i.e. we recoil when we hear someone has been 'murdered', but hail soldiers as heroes, whose job it is to kill en masse!), so it is quite conceivable for someone to come back with a, "how do you know a lamb is more evolved than a cucumber?" and it is a question no-one can answer properly. However, in order to function in the world, we have to take some things that appear obvious as true. So again, assuming you are a meat eater, please don't tell me you think that chopping a carrot is the same as gutting a pig? Most people could chop the carrot, but the bulk would give a reluctant pause before stepping up to stick the knife in an animal. Wouldn't you?
Before you think I'm a typical veggie zealot, I am not. Vegetarians and vegans are mostly a bunch of neurotic, pretentious snobs, who think that they are morally and ethically superior to people who eat meat. They are not, because as I said at the beginning, in order for us to live, SOMETHING must die and it is impossible not to kill. If you have an infection and take antibiotics, you are killing microcosmic life. When you WASH, you are killing by removing tiny lifeforms that live on the skin, so for a lot of vegetable people, their ideas of being 'superior' or 'doing no harm' are nonsense.
In the final analysis, when someone asks me why I don't eat meat, I simply say, "pity". I am under no illusions though and if I was starving, I would happily gobble YOU up in order to survive!!!
Have a nice day. :-)
Addendum for the asker: When I opened by asking: "I don't know if you are trying to be smart?", this was not an attack on you! It was a rhetorical question. Hopefully you will have read my entire reply and be able to understand where I am coming from. :-)
I am vegan because I have PTSD related to several incidents involving food. Don't put us all under one umbrella please.
they think eating meat is bad because it once had a face. really it doesnt matter, it's not cruel, the animal is already dead anyways, and so is the veggie. but mostly the vegetarians think it's bad because an animal can think and feel and a veggie can't.
it is not wrong to eat both. We all need meat and veges in our diet to maintain a healthy balanced diet. It is all apart of the foodchain.
Eating meat means that you are cutting that animals' life short. And a lot of the conditions of killing the animals is painful. They have emotions that are underlooked by many people. Just because it doesn't have a voice doesn't mean that we should ignore their body language of pain.
Many plants thrive when you prune them to become stronger plants. Yes, plants eat food and drink water but they don't have a brain so they don't feel pain.
It's good that you're trying to work out what's what and understand why some people do things that don't make sense to you.
I agree with the last answerer, vegetarians and vegans can choose this way for many reasons. It may have nothing to do with 'cruelty to living things'.
For many, veganism is a way of life dedicated to excluding (as far as is practicable and possible) all forms of cruelty to and exploitation of animals. According to the vegan society, the vegan diet doesn't have anything to do with 'living things', it relates to animals.
People tend to think of animals as higher and conscious beings, perhaps beings that can make 'choices'. People often believe that killing something (that can make its own choices and decisions) for your own personal gain, is unethical. On the other hand, vegetables are completely designed as a food source.
Other plants feed off them, and animals do to. If you look at things evolutionarily and chemically, the human body needs to eat plants to survive. We can get by quite well without eating other animals, but we cannot live well without vegetables.
I think, because plants are not conscious beings, it's acceptable. They are indeed 'alive', but then, so is the universe, and some would argue that there are computational formulae that live, or programs, or ideas.
We have to draw the line somewhere.
Eating meat is cruel because factory farmed animals are neglected, treated roughly, not allowed to do things natural to them (graze, play, raise their young, etc.) and are then slaughtered, often in painful, frightening ways.
No offense, but really, you're comparing the life of a factory farmed cow to that of, say, a turnip? If you've ever spent more than five minutes in the presence of an animal, you know they are feeling creatures that can be frightened, excited, happy, or sad. The textbook term is "sentient" or "capable of feeling and perception." Animals are classified as sentient - it's proven fact that animals are capable of these things. Vegetables, on the other hand, have no brain and are therefore incapable of sensory perception (pain, sight, etc.) That's why humans are considered animals, too, and not plants. Animals are made like we are, at least to some extent. You know this, whether you want to admit it or not. If you don't agree, let me ask you a question: would you dice a cat the way you would a tomato?
Hopefully, your answer is "no." The reason: you realize cutting a cat the way you'd cut a tomato would be barbaric, because unlike the tomato, the cat is aware of what is going on and feels what you're doing to it. A tomato feels nothing because it has no nerves and no brain.
If you would dice a cat, all I can say is you need serious help, because that's an example of extreme sadistic tendencies and such behaviors and attitudes are often linked to people with a high risk for exhibiting violence against humans, i.e. serial killers.
We can have meat, only halal, as its ok
The difference is that an animal experiences fear when slaughtered and plants do not--also fruits, nuts, seeds and many vegetables(tomatoes, bell peppers, squash) actually come off the plant naturally and harvesting these things do not kill anything at all.
Not all vegetarians think it's wrong to eat meat, you know. I went veg when I found out that the animals are raised in crowded, uncomfortable factory farms, and pumped full of antibiotics, and some are even starved of iron so their meat stays white. And, the animals are branded, and get their beaks and tails cut off... If the animals are forced to live in such conditions, I prefer not to support that.
First of all that was kinda weird but I have a friend like that who is a vegetarian. She says" well I got to eat something. Seriously pick one something with eye,kids to take care of and when you eat it it's almost like you can here it's screams or something that can't move, only need the dirt and doesn't scream." That's what my friend says.
PLANTS CAN'T SUFFER. Prove me otherwise and I will quit eating plants. Can't prove that? Dont expect to be taken seriously then.
Want a proof that animals CAN suffer? Email me, or visit many countless veg*n sites with useful information, (that can easily be double-checked) or why not visit a slaughter house?
If you really want to know the answer to your question you will find one. Unless of course you dont want to know.
Vegetables are still living even after they are picked. Sure they do die if they are picked. People have to eat something. I go by the bible: Genesis: 1:29 God says: I have given ye ever herb and fruit bearing seed let be thy meat! I originally came vegetarian due to cost reasons and found myself healthier being a vegetarian!
Maybe You should stop walking the soil has feeling too.. you might hurt it while walking. Stop using your bed too and oh ya the air has feeling too.. You meat eaters are ridiculous in the way you justify your meat habits meat is dead carcass!
If you eat meat you eat dead.. what is dead is death.. Is that what you want to be death? Also it's not vegetarians that talk about cruelty it is the Vegans that do that.. the only cruelty vegetarians will talk about is how some animals are raised. Vegans are the once that go beyond that! Don't lump it all in one basket!