Comments on: Cattle Population Needed To Sustain Meat Eating By Humans http://vegetarianbychoice.com/cattle-population-needed-to-sustain-meat-eating/ Love the Earth? Be a Vegetarian! Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:13:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sanjeev http://vegetarianbychoice.com/cattle-population-needed-to-sustain-meat-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Sanjeev Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:42 +0000 http://vegetarianbychoice.com/?p=324#comment-538 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 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 http://vegetarianbychoice.com/cattle-population-needed-to-sustain-meat-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-536 Ash Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:09:50 +0000 http://vegetarianbychoice.com/?p=324#comment-536 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. 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.

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