Comments on: Cattle Population Needed To Sustain Meat Eating By Humans

By: Dialogue Between Two Vegetarian Friends | Vegetarian By Choice

Dialogue Between Two Vegetarian Friends | Vegetarian By Choice — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:49:02 +0000

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By: satya

satya — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:48:40 +0000

u have a interesting blog with wonderful posts ..totally agree with you it is such waste of natural resources to maintain animals just to satisfy our craving… happy to find you..if u get time do visit my blog

Satya

By: Trupti

Trupti — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:58:50 +0000

Awesome analysis and just as your blog suggests i am vegetarian by choice too

If you get a chance see this documentary called HOME – you can watch for free on Youtube which shows how the cattle and poultry are raised to be able to sustain the ever growing needs of meat consumption.

Thanks for sharing this information will spread it to my friends also.

By: Sanjeev

Sanjeev — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:42 +0000

Hi Ash

Thanks for your comments, but I would beg to disagree. Just because plants have no nerves does not mean that killing them if less of a sin as compared to killing animals.

I would like to invite you to read the following two posts:

http://vegetarianbychoice.com/if-life-that-feels-no-pain-can-be-killed-then-abortion-is-no-big-deal/

http://vegetarianbychoice.com/is-the-value-of-plant-life-less-than-the-value-of-animal-life/

Best regards

Sanjeev Sharma

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:09:50 +0000

Hi sanjeev,
U said a few posts back
“Being a vegetarian so that you can avoid violence is not the right reason to be a vegetarian according to me. All eating is based on violence – vegetarians “kill” plants to eat food.”

Lord Buddha explains the difference:
Killing means the intentional destruction of any living being. The wanton destruction of this life force, without allowing it to run its due course, is Panatipata(killing). Pana means which breathes. Hence all animal beings, including animals, are regarded as Pana. But not plants as they possess no mind.
Commentary: In plants , there is no transmission of stimuli by nerves. Nerves are unknown to them as nerve-centres.

So thats the difference between plants and animals. Indeed killing both of them is a bad deed, but killing animals is a deed worse then killing plants.