: : Arent you killing plants when you eat them?: That's a question I've heard many times before. Here's the answer:
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: Then there are the environmental and economical and humanitarian reasons for being vegetarian, but since your question seemed to be getting at the morality of killing, I won't list those here unless you ask for them.
As McSpotlight pointed out, the jury is out on this one. However, think about what would normally happen if vegetables were not harvested - they would just rot. Examine any vegetable under a microscope and no doubt you would see millions of bacteria and mites (perhaps) living on it. No doubt we consume millions of them when we eat anything. The very important point is that animals higher up the food chain definitely feel pain and stress just like us - slaughtering them for food is barbarity and simply not necessary. Meat eaters usually argue that eating meat - beef for instance - is a pleasurable experience - the aroma, the taste, the texture. What if we found that domestic pets for instance were tastier ? could anyone bring themselves to eat their cats or dogs - why not ? if they find that distasteful why is eating other flesh OK then ?
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