Killing Plants
Killing Plants
When meat-eaters run out of excuses to eat dead animals, they attempt to indict the vegan lifestyle by claiming that plants suffer and die to feed the vegans of the world. Yet, I am still searching for the founders of People for the Ethical Treatment of Carrots, Last Chance for Broccoli or Apples Deserve Absolute Protection Today and Tomorrow. For every injustice that has ever existed, there has always been a group of people fighting to end that injustice. However, People for the Ethical Treatment of Carrots doesn't exist because everyone knows the difference between taking a carrot out of the ground and slicing a pig into pieces. Everyone also knows the difference between mowing a lawn and tossing a live baby chick into a rendering machine. If one does not understand the difference, then that person is disingenuous and irrational.
It's also illogical to discuss giving rights of freedom and bodily integrity to insentient plants while sentient animals suffer and die by the billion. Plants—unlike animals—are insentient beings void of central nervous systems, lungs, hearts, kidneys, intestines, blood, ears and eyes. They do not defecate or urinate, and have no ability to feel pain or experience a plethora of emotions. Nobody screams in horror when their neighbors are mowing the grass either (grass is a plant too). But if our neighbors were slicing pigs into pieces on the front lawn, there would be tears, physical interventions and the proper authorities would be summoned to stop the bloodshed. Plus, if people honestly believe it's wrong to eat plants, they could always choose the ultra-vegan lifestyle of fruitarianism (eating the fruits and nuts that fall from trees). From a Judeo-Christian-Islam perspective, the Garden of Eden was a fruitarian haven.
Furthermore, meat-eating societies destroy more plants than vegan ones. In America, 70-80 percent of our crops (corn, wheat, oats and soy) are fed to the 10 billion land animals who are killed annually. Worldwide, 60-70 percent of the plants are fed to around 50 billion land animals. So if humans stopped eating flesh, then fewer plants would be harvested and less land would be used/destroyed as well. Veganism is still the ONLY answer to this issue because fewer beings (sentient and insentient) would die if humans – who are physiologically herbivorous anyway – ate plants directly. Even The Council for Science, Technology and Agriculture, a group of animal ag people, stated in the early 90s that all the crops in America could feed every human on this planet if plants were consumed directly.
Vegan humanitarian George Bernard Shaw once said: “If you believe absurdities, then you will commit atrocities.” When it comes to pain and suffering, the screams, the blood, the writhing, and the fear that animals (and humans) exhibit trump the so called “waves” of plants.
Some meat-eaters also claim that more animals die from the tractors that harvest crops than the knives that slice the throats of 10 billion land animals who are murdered with premeditation in slaughterhouses every year. Even if that statement were true, the premeditated killings of 10 billion land animals in slaughterhouses are diametrically opposed to the accidental killings by tractors in the farmlands of America. Our unjust legal system even recognizes the difference between a premeditated murder and an accidental killing.
Nonetheless, it is unreasonable to intentionally starve millions of humans to death by feeding around 70 percent of the harvested grains in America to the 10 billion land animals murdered with premeditation, and then accidentally kill wild animals with tractors. With veganism, we could eliminate two problems instead of living with three!
*I hear this daily and now I just look at them and laugh!! : D
http://adaptt.org/veganism.php#
Tags: plants, pflanzen, meat, pigs, fleisch, schwein, carrots, murder, food
Autor: Antagonist |
Kategorie: Vegan Vegetarisch |
14:13:56 |
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jaja die pflanzenrechte - siehe http://veganismus.de/vegan/...
They do not defecate or urinate, and have no ability to feel pain or experience a plethora of emotions
actually, as a biologist, I strongly disagree.
your ignorance in matters of biology is staggering!
plants DO feel pain, they DO breathe, they DO have blood equivalent, and they do produce waste product.
Research next time before making an idiot of yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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