To begin with, what is meant by Negative Reasons for being a vegetarian?
We human beings have something that we believe animals do not have – intellect. It is the ability to think rationally based on certain individual belief systems to arrive at a decision which is translated into action. I am sure animals too have it but it is perhaps rudimentary and dictated by the survival instinct, that is hardwired, and hence the decisions that they would take can always be predicted and are always the same. This also means that in a given situation all members of the same species will act similarly. This is not so in case of human beings. We use very complex software in our head coupled with what our heart says and arrive at decisions which can vary from one person to the other – that is under similar circumstances two people can arrive at different answer to the same problem depending on their own belief systems and experiences. The reasons for such decision can both be right or wrong when judged against the accepted universal truths or universally accepted end resu
