Re: an it harm none : meat eater, vegetarian, or vegan?
Rae'ya, you've raised a lot of interesting points (some of which I'm sure I'll try to rebut at a later date)
For now, let me at least answer the part that I can answer without having to reference anyone else (because it's tiring and I have to make pizzas :P).
You asked the question of whether there is that much difference between plant things dying and animal things dying....For me, yes it is. I've tended veggie patches and I've herded cattle and I've found a distinct difference between the two. I can watch countless hours of crop harvesting, without feeling much of anything. But it took 10 minutes of slaughterhouse video to turn me from a carnist to a vegetarian.
I can eat a plant, while it looks pretty much the way it always did. My salad (not that I have that many, because you don't make friends with salad) roughly resembles what it has always looked like. I couldn't bring myself to eat part of an animal now because after seeing what I've seen, I don't see 'steak', or 'bacon'....I see cow and pig. I see parts of beings that I know wanted to live so badly, that they didn't just shrink away from the knife, bolt gun, net or slashing blade (in the case of chickens) some of them ran from it. I can't help but wonder what the someone on the plate was like and then ultimately how sad and frightened they were at the very end.
I can't say I attribute those same features to a plant, but that's just me.
Rae'ya, you've raised a lot of interesting points (some of which I'm sure I'll try to rebut at a later date)
For now, let me at least answer the part that I can answer without having to reference anyone else (because it's tiring and I have to make pizzas :P).
You asked the question of whether there is that much difference between plant things dying and animal things dying....For me, yes it is. I've tended veggie patches and I've herded cattle and I've found a distinct difference between the two. I can watch countless hours of crop harvesting, without feeling much of anything. But it took 10 minutes of slaughterhouse video to turn me from a carnist to a vegetarian.
I can eat a plant, while it looks pretty much the way it always did. My salad (not that I have that many, because you don't make friends with salad) roughly resembles what it has always looked like. I couldn't bring myself to eat part of an animal now because after seeing what I've seen, I don't see 'steak', or 'bacon'....I see cow and pig. I see parts of beings that I know wanted to live so badly, that they didn't just shrink away from the knife, bolt gun, net or slashing blade (in the case of chickens) some of them ran from it. I can't help but wonder what the someone on the plate was like and then ultimately how sad and frightened they were at the very end.
I can't say I attribute those same features to a plant, but that's just me.
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