Most vegans and vegetarians do not eat meat because of how animals are treated and slaughtered. I understand how sad it is to see animals suffer for our own needs. But truth of the matter is that they and everyone else are harming and hurting plants when we eat them. We plant acres and acres of plants just to cut them down and eat them like we would with cows and pigs. Just because plants cant talk or cry does not mean that we are harming them just as well. We are on top of the food chain so we eat whatever we want because we can. We harm things for our pleasure and for our survival and thats just how it is always going to be. Humans need both meat and veggie's to live a healthy life so without eating meat you are not able to get a good amount of protein you need. Same with veggies. If you do not eat veggies then you will not be a healthy person and not get the amount you need. So being a vegetarian or vegan because the process of getting that meat and thinking you are not harming plants is not true and you are harming plants. You hurt both plants and animals when getting the process of the food. Americans will continue to slaughter animals and cut down plants for our own needs so why not just eat what we need to be healthy and eat what is already slaughtered or cut down.
So eat on!
You can get plenty of protein from rice and beans and an assortment of nuts. As far as "harming the plants" goes, that is not quite the same thing. Plants do not have central nervous systems for one, so they feel no pain when you are killing them. And secondly, they have no brain or memory. So even if it did hurt tomatoes when they are picked, they would not have the capacity to remember it. You can not compare picking vegetables to the contents of this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8zC2fEJXNc&feature=player_embedded
ReplyDeleteThey do feel pain, they are able to communicate with each other and are able to allow neighbor trees or even trees from a far when they are being harmed or hurt. Just because they do not speak or cry like a chicken or human we do not notice these things and think we are not harming anything. Yes I have almost went vegan because I saw a truck full of chicken compacted into little cages probably getting trucked off to die which made me very much sad, but it is the way of life. Sadly we must hurt things to get food and nutrients. I will not ever buy any monk or any type of animal coats because of they way they just rip their skin off while they are still alive is just down right wrong and never should happen. They actually put the animals out before they being to make meat. But I completely understand where you are coming from and I can understand why you can be a vegetarian or vegan. I do not want you to think I was trying to say what you should do or not do because I was not. I think it is honestly the saddest thing ever because I am a animal person all the way but it is the way of life and we must eat meat like a lion needs his food. IT is sad how they must get food but it is they way they live.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the food part. We definitely need both meat and vegetables to survive. As for the plants being killed, I think it's a little different compared to animals, in my opinion. It could be the way a lot of slaughter houses treat the animals before they kill them...
ReplyDeleteDid you know veal calfs are kept in an extremely dark room packed together SO much that they can't move? Pretty cruel. I don't see it as a problem if we eat them, but give them some space(pun intended) before we KILL them, at least.
Theres a hgue difference in cutting up a cow to make a steak and chopping up someplants to eat. Now granted these animals were put on this earth to live and be free. Not slaughtered and eaten but thats just how it is. I wont lie. I love a nice juicey steak but as mike said, theres plenty of other sources of protein. the lives of theese animals can be spared.
ReplyDeletei agree 100 percent with this article... i guess they don't eat meat cuz they are living things but for real biologist will tell u plant are living things 2. so for real eat whatever cuz that's how it goes... this animals are here to assist us anyways they can. whether they tow something, entertaining us, or we eating them... we on top so yea eat up
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