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By Sanjeev Sharma, on April 14th, 2009 | Tags: Animal Rights, Negative Reasons | Category: Negative Reasons to be a Vegetarian | While all vegetarians and vegans agree that plants too have life and therefore they are taking away life when they eat vegetables, they justify it by saying that “plants do not feel pain as they do not have a Central Nervous System, pain sensors or emotional relationships like animals and hence it is all right to kill them.”
I am a vegetarian and yet that is not my philosophy or conviction. I believe that the above argument that we vegetarians give is weak. If we do not give the above as justification for killing
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So said George Bernard Shaw when asked why he was a vegetarian.
From a quotable quote or literary standpoint it is an excellent statement and the widespread use of this quote is testimony to its quote worthiness. However, as an argument it is highly debatable. And I for one do not agree with Mr. Shaw.
The Webster dictionary defines “friend” as a person whom one knows well and is fond of, an ally, supporter or sympathizer. One of the primary qualities of a friend is that he is your well wisher and
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Most vegetarians look down upon meat eaters because they believe that you should not take life to sustain yours. And when faced with the realization that they also kill plants for food, the justification given is that killing a plant is not the same as killing an animal.
Ask them why? And the two main reasons given are:
All life is not equal and the value of each species of life is different. The reason for this conclusion is that we humans have a special place in the universe. Another argument is that if
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The biggest negative reason to be a vegetarian in my opinion is the one given by the majority of Vegetarians – Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends. This refrain can be expressed in many other ways such as:
I do not eat animals because of ethical reasons. It is cruel to kill animals for food. Animals bleed, feel pain and scream when they are killed and I don’t like it. All animal food comes from “Animal Factory Farms” where they are kept in horrible condition and I protest that. “It’s a wonderful
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While reading about the stand of various religions on meat eating, one of the constant themes that I got was about every religion’s advice that we should not be cruel to animals. There have been innumerable references in all religious texts and quotes attributed to religious leaders which convey love for animals. Many of these can be found under the Quotes pages in this website as well.
While the love for animals has been universally exhibited, it is also true that no religion bars meat eating in unambiguous terms. This has also been demonstrated
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By Sanjeev Sharma, on March 7th, 2009 | Tags: Islam, Negative Reasons, Religion | Category: Negative Reasons to be a Vegetarian |
In this day and age if there is one religion about which one can be absolutely sure that there is no ambiguity if it prohibits meat eating or not, then I think it is Islam. Even though I have seen a lot of sites on the internet started by Muslims who espouse the cause of vegetarianism and have read a lot of references about Prophet Mohammed denouncing ill treatment of animals, I think that Islam does not prohibit meat eating at all. In fact, Prophet is quoted as saying, “the master of all foods
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Christianity does not support vegetarianism and hence it is not possible to promote vegetarianism using Christian religion. I know there would be a lot of vegetarian Christians out there who would protest, but then they are in a minority. Even they do not know what their number is. This theme will be read a lot of times in this article – if Christians believe that their religions supports vegetarianism then why is it that there are so few Christian vegetarians? If you would like to prove me wrong, then please turn into vegetarians!!! Else, believe me
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