Why eating meat is considered wrong but eating plants not???

Question

Why eating meat is considered wrong but eating plants not???

Answer 1

In college I knew a guy who was a fruitarian. He would not kill plants but figured that eating the fruit of a plant doesn't kill it.

However, after a few months on this pure-fruit diet, he ended up in the hospital with a whole constellation of dietary deficiency diseases. Took him quite a while to recover.

Answer 2

Probably because animals can suffer in many ways and plants have no way of experiencing any suffering.

Just because someone chooses to live their life differently, they shouldn't treat you any differently because you eat meat. I definitely wouldn't.

If someone tells you that they don't eat meat because they are against killing animals, they are missing an opportunity to tell you of a serious issue that most people would see a problem with.

Many people would choose not to eat animals at all, but the way that they are raised(not just how they die) today causes many people to be conscious of where their meat comes from.

If you are genuinely interested in knowing why they are worried about who they get meat from, feel free to see what 99-percent of animals go through.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/issues/fact...

http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan

Answer 3

Good question.  After all, if it is wrong to kill, why isn't it wrong to kill a plant, or an insect?

There are no easy answers to that.  If you want to be perfectly nuts about the whole thing then you would only ever eats nuts and berries and other fruits that had already fallen from the plant.  Or animals that died (VERY RECENTLY) from some natural occurence, not including disease.

My best answer is that we are all part of an ecosystem.  I doubt that sharks spend a lot of time grieving over the fish or mammals they eat.  The biggest difference is that HUMANS suffer over killing animals.  The ones that do are called vegetarians.  The ones that don't are called omnivores.

Answer 4

its entirely different

Answer 5

to hapa girl . if she say plant produce oxygen which is good for human and earth and animal **** harm the environment. then why not eat the animal that is bad for the earth and save plants that do good to the earth

Answer 6

because meat comes from animals  

Answer 7

It is not wrong to eat plants for the same reason that it is not wrong to kill bacteria. Every time I brush my teeth, I kill thousands of bacteria, yet I see nothing wrong with doing so.

The distinguishing characteristic between animals and plants is that animals are conscious beings capable of feeling pain and suffering.  Animals are capable of feeling happiness, joy, sorrow, and a desire to live.

Plants and bacteria, on the other hand, do not possess anything similar to a nervous system. They're devoid of brains, nerve endings, and pain receptors. They don't exhibit any behavior which would indicate that they possess consciousness.

When you kick a rock, you don't have to worry about whether or not you're inflicting suffering on the rock or interfering with the rock's desire to live, since rocks are incapable of such feelings. It's for this same reason that it's not wrong to eat plants.

Answer 8

1. if we eat meat (ex. cow) then the cow had to eat plants to grow, so we end up killing more. If we just eat plants, we have to kill plants, but the cow killing is eliminated

2. plants don't have nerves or brains, so they can't feel pain. Animals definitely can.

3. Plants produce oxygen, which we can breathe and helps counter-act the destruction of the ozone. Animals f***s produce methane, which contribute to the destruction of the ozone, and global warming.

4. We not only eat plants, we eat fungi, like mushrooms. We are already constantly eating bacteria. It's everywhere. But neither have nerves or brains to feel pain.

-forgot to mention: bacteria doesn't always die simply because we eat it. actually, most is excreted with our f***s, some is kept in our intestines to help us digest food. a little is killed by our immune system if it poses a threat.

to Questions: what I meant is that to kill the animals, you must first raise them, and their f***s produce methane. so why not stop raising them to kill them in the first place?

sorry if how I phrased it was confusing.

Answer 9

You figure it out, genius.  You know the difference between animals and plants.  Now stop being ridiculous.  

Answer 10

have you ever had a pet?  would you eat it?  seems a bit different then eating a carrot huh?

Answer 11

eating meat in itself is not wrong. it is natural. however the methods used to procure it, typically through factory farming are not natural and disturb a proper balance. principle difference s that they are entirely different parts of life, the kingdoms animalia and vegetablia separate categories. eliminate sentient living things (animals) and non sentient living things ( plants) and whats left? bacteria aren't exactly filling, but hey, heres a nice tasty rock.

Answer 12

I don't think eating meat is "wrong."  It's the way your meat gets to your plate that's "wrong."  Factory farmed, artificially produced, hormone filled, chemical laden, with maximum cruelty.  That's what I object to.  Plants are not "factory farmed."

Answer 13

Suffering and sentience are the keys.

Answer 14

My opinion is that in order for me to live something else must die.  That is just the way it is.  As long as I can appreciate that fact, there is nothing morally wrong with my diet.

Answer 15

Eating meat isn't wrong...your "god" says so.

Answer 16

It's not "wrong" to eat either.

Some vegetarians [such as myself] find meat appalling..

Some think animals have rights, animals can feel.

Plants can't feel. Plants don't have rights.

Answer 17

Animals are sentient-- they CAN feel pain.

Plants however DON'T feel pain. Plants don't suffer.

What else do you propose we eat? Rocks?

Answer 18

Seriously?

You think plants are equally conscious and capable of suffering as animals?

Take a middle-school bio class please.