If vegetarians don eat living things, why do they eat plants?
1) “Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products. There are variations that admit dairy products, eggs and/or products from animal labor such as honey. Many vegetarians also choose to avoid wearing clothing that has involved the death of animals, such as leather and fur. Veganism in comparison, excludes all animal products from diet and in some definitions from attire also, whether or not the production of clothing or items has involved the actual death of an animal (dairy, eggs, honey, wool, silk, down feathers, etc.). A generic term for both Vegetarianism and Veganism as well as for similar diets is “Plant-based diets”. The reasons for choosing Vegetarianism, beyond simple personal choice, may be related with moral, religious, cultural, ethical, aesthetic, environmental, social, economic or political convictions, as well as with health concerns.” Source and further information:
Vegetarians are about not eating dead animals, not ”not eating living things” to be specific about this. Plants do not have a brain and central nervous system. They don’t feel pain, or fear, or anything like what an animal feels. Many vegetarians are also vegetarian due to the fact they believe meat is unhealthy, and pumped full of antibiotics, hormones and other things they don’t want to put in their body rather than because they don’t want to eat something that lived.
There is a East Indian sect called the Jain’s that will only eat leaf vegetables and fruits.If it is a root vegetable they will not eat it for it is killing them.In the seventies there was a famous book called “The secret life of plants” that showed that plants react to pain,fear,love and other emotions.There was scientific studies done and the plants had measuring devices on them to calculate their response.I guess the Jain’s knew about this thousands of years ago.
