Frankly, I think vegetarianism is the primary form of racism. How do you know that vegetables have no feelings?
I wouldn't be surprised if your response weren't used by some people agains other races of people; your response strengthens my premise. I think you've been eating too much meat. Please tie together in a cohesive format your rational explaining your "theory". I would love to heard it! Racism? I could use some offbeat entertainment. veggies have no nervous sytem, therefore cannot feel. if u are afriad of hurting plants maybe u should go anerexic, then u dont have to worry about anything having pain because u eat it Vegetarians don't eat meat. I really don't think they're racist over a flicking cow. They're just weird, man. I had one come over to share a meat lover's pizza, and he went home. How the hell you go home because of a meat lovers pizza? I told him "Pick the meat off." He said "I can still smell it, though." So I said, "Dude, I smell your *** all the time and do I complain?" I don't know what he got upset about... the vegtables don't have feelings just so you know the animials do so it's not racism and this is not funny Trees can think to some extent, I think but i don't think eating anything more than something else is any where close to racism, you are not eating the food you eat because you hate it, you eat food because your body can't make food like plants I think a better word for this question, rather than "Racism" might be "Speciesism".
Very common word used by Animal rights activists all over the globe.
According to Wikipedia:
"Speciesism involves assigning different values or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership."
To call vegetarianism a form of Racism suggests that you don't quite understand what that word means.
So here you go.
According to Wikipedia:
"Racism is commonly defined as a belief or doctrine where inherent biological differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, with a corollary that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others."
Based on your logic and how you are using the word "Racsim" would be like saying "So if you are going to beat one person with a stick, because of the colour of their skin, then you might as well beat everybody else."
So perhaps your argument isn't a very strong one. It's kind of funny but isn't very well thought out.
So are we assuming that biological organisms such as vegetables are in fact secular beings(species)?
Should we include Fruits, nuts and grains as well?
I think we need to define ignorance for this question as well.
According to Wikipedia (I love Wikipedia):
"Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. Ignorance is also a "state of being ignorant" or unaware/uninformed."
For most Vegans and vegetarians hopefully they are making a well informed choice. It is important to know what you are putting in your body no matter what diet you are on.
Most vegans I know are very well informed on this topic. They have done their research which is often what lead them to make this kind of lifestyle choice in the first place.
To call this lifestyle choice ignorant is, well, ignorant.
However.
All life on this planet is complex and delicate, so to assume that plants (including vegetables) do not have some kind of sensory nervous system that might make them self aware and in turn have some kind of pain sensory sytem intact, is, well at this moment ignorant.
Where is the research to prove or disprove this posibility?
What do we really truly understand of the other organisms that we co-inhabit the earth with?
Does it really matter if an organism feels pain when we kill it for our own survival?
So is it a question of morality vs our own survival?
Can we live with our conscience knowing that our own survival causes the suffering and destruction of other species on this planet?
Who or what are we, that allows us to put our life and existence above all others?
We have the ability to make this choice but our greed causes us to consume in such excess that species disapear from the face of the planet, so rapidly that we have to harvest our own domesticated livestock just to satisfy our lust for blood.
We don't need to live our lives in excess we just choose too.
So why is it Ok to eat vegetables?
Why is it ok to eat anything?
Perhaps we can take a lesson from these people.
According to Wikipedia:
"Inedia is the alleged ability to live without food. Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary for human sustenance, which can be nourished solely by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism), or according to some, by the energy in sunlight. The terms breatharianism or inedia may also refer to this philosophy practiced as a lifestyle in place of the usual diet. While it is often seen as an esoteric practice performed by eastern ascetics, recently some groups such as the Breatharian Institute of America [1] have promoted the practice as an option for anybody, once the proper techniques for accessing it are made known."
Thanks Wikipedia Well I think that eating meat is the cause of all humans wars. And maybe some animal wars too.
STOP THE FIGHTING! EAT VEGETABLES! Your question was short and to the point. Your comments were long and OY.. my eyes, how they burn.
It is okay to eat vegetables because they are a food source. Whether or not they are eaten by any said person, is entirely a matter of choice. Eating vegetables can slow mental decline, study shows
Eating two or more servings of vegetables a day may slow a person's mental decline by about 40 per cent compared with a person who consumes few vegetables, according to a six-year study of nearly 4,000 Chicago residents age 65 or older.
Consuming lots of fruit did not appear to offer the same mental protection, although fruit has been associated with a wide variety of other health benefits, said Martha Clare Morris, chief of Rush University Medical Center's Rush Center for Healthy Ageing.
The slowdown in the rate of cognitive decline experienced by people who ate 2.8 or more servings of vegetables a day is "equivalent to about five years of younger age" compared with people who ate less than one serving of vegetables per day, Morris reported in Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
And older people who started eating more than two servings of vegetables a day still showed a significant delay in mental decline, Morris said.
The new findings come on top of two earlier Rush studies. Morris reported four years ago that eating foods high in Vitamin E appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, and last year she found that eating fish had a similar effect.
Vegetables, especially green leafy ones, are brimming with antioxidant compounds like Vitamin E, flavonoids and carotenoids, Morris said. They also contain more Vitamin E than fruit.
Eating vegetables with olive oil, vegetable oil or some other type of poly- or mono-unsaturated fats enhances the body's absorption of antioxidants, which help snuff out cell-damaging free radicals, she added.
In trying to figure out which specific food groups bestow important health benefits, epidemiologists match people as closely as possible so other factors in their lifestyles cancel out.
"When we controlled for all of those healthy lifestyle variables 鈥?physical exercise, age, sex, race, education, cognitive activity, participation 鈥?the effects of vegetables on cognition actually became stronger," Morris said.
"The link between better cognition and vegetables is interesting and certainly real," said Matt Kaeberlein, who researches the biochemical processes of ageing at the University of Washington. "But I wouldn't stop eating fruits based on this study. There's plenty of evidence that for overall health you're better off eating a diet high in both fruits and vegetables."
Further research is needed to document the exact role that vegetables play in mental health, Kaeberlein said. Learning which specific nutrients provide the greatest protection could lead to developing a pill people could take that would have the same benefits, he said. Are you serious? Nothing in your ramblings supports these ideas. Please explain.
I'll expand on this tomorrow, I don't have the time tonight.
catch you then. I agree with you...
Eat vegetables in their concentrated form for maximum benefit...
MEAT... Please tell me that you are kidding.. Okay,let me try to put what I'm thinking in words.you are reaching for a ridiculous arguement to defend you're meat eating habits,you are saying vegetables have feelings.One, they don't bleed,yelp in pain, or given hormones to fatten them.They grow out in the sun in their natural habitat.Where are animals raised?In factory farms,they don't see the light of day,they are given hormones,they are practically tortured,the only day the see light of day is the day they are put on a truck to be shipped to a factory farm.Two,vegetables don't have a brain,thus they can't have a central nervous system so they can't feel pain.three,by eating meat you are eating more vegetables.Four,You would never normally say vegetables have feelings,but when it comes to defend your meat eating ways you will reach
for such a ridiculous arguement.You never step on grass and think to yourself,Oh,sorry grass for stepping on you,Do you.Vegetarianism has nothing to do with racism.
I know you are not a vegetarian,then you would be considering yourself a racist and you would not try to prove that vegetables have feelings.Seriously,you have wasted yours,and now my time on this.I'm not rying to sway you any direction,but I don't know what you are trying to prove either. Because vegetables don't contain nerve cells or brains, they are part of a healthy diet, you can fit a lot more corn cobs into a field than you can cows (so in terms of the use of land and feeding the over-popluated planet, they're a damn lot more efficient than eating meat), and they're the primary producers in the food chain - turning sunlight into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis - so if we didn't eat them, we'd starve. Unless you can live off sunlight? The fats that come from vegetables are nowhere near as likely to cause heart disease as are animal fats, and vegetables also contain FAR more nutrients and vitamins than meat.
(Oh, and how can it be racism when vegetables are not a race of humans? They're not even in the same KINGDOM! But if you feel like kicking up a fuss, then kick it up about mushrooms - mushrooms are infact more closely related (in the genetic and evolutionary sense) to animals than they are to plants - both humans and true fungi are in the opisthokont kingdom - although I still don't really mind eating them cause they still don't have nerve cells or eyes...) |
