always the same fucking comment

everytime I say I'm a vegetarian people bring up plants... like plants have feelings too! you shouldn't eat plants then. you shouldn't eat lettuce and all that.

 

mmm, i get that a lot too... generally from people who think that i want to argue about my diet with them. just give them the stink-eye. seriously. then they feel stupid and immature.

 

haa haaa i'll remember that

 

Hit 'em with some science, like:

"show me at least 3, recently published scientific studies in reputable journals which support, with an acceptable level of significance, the hypothesis that plants have feelings."

 

I've heard of these people who call themselves breatharians and they get their food from breathing and sunlight.

 

give peas a chance!

 

*applauds Mr Migu*



you seriously don't care about what they are saying do you iscreamchocolate? It is the old the crunch of the carrot is it's scream sort of thing that my younger brothers would tease me with when they were trying to get a rise...most likely that is what they are doing but if not and they are serious you can console yourself with the fact that maybe it is possible that being a vegetarian makes you smarter and that this person is proof!!!

 

Yeah, I get that too. Tell them it is a false analogy because plants cannot feel pain. Most philosophers agree that the criteria for being a moral patient is the ability to feel pain. (A moral patient is any entity to which you can have moral obligations. A moral agent is any entity that can have moral obligations.) If someone says, "All living things are the same, you may as well eat animals," I just say, "And I suppose I may as well eat you."

 

no i really don't give a shit what they say it doesn't bother me very muich and I try not to react to it.. I just kind of shrug my shoulders and walk away with a really bored look on my face.

 

haaa haaa that's great mr migu! lol

 

i hate when people say that--plants dont have a brain or nervous system--they cant feel!!

 

Based on what? Do you just indiscriminantly hate things with no justification? :$

By the way, a second defense to people like you is that most plants don't die when they are harvested for food. You don't have to kill an apple tree to take the apples.

 

LOL, depressing yet funny.....

also, where is the logic in plants have feelings so we shouldnt eat them? so are they saying we should just let apples fall and let lettuce die come winter time instead of harvesting them? and we dont keep our vegetables all caged up in small pots either and they actually have room and freedom to grow, lol...

 

my bf many years ago when he was a corpse muncher, his favourite line was 'but plants have feelings too', he is now vegetarian and vegan at home, he comes to AR protests also. But he used to drive me mad with that stupid crap.

 

Lonely i was saying i hate when people say "plants are living beings too and they can feel"

 

I never heard that one, but I don't eat plants anyway (fruits only for 3 years!). So just send these jerks my way. Aside from that, I think you could just tell them that no one's diet is perfect, but we should all be trying to improve ourselves when we can. If you have a lot of patience with these people, maybe they'll figure it out also. I guess we were all once corpse munchers (luv that name, clawsy) and we wised up. But man, some of the ignorant things I used to say... someone should've beat the crap out of me.

 

Apples fall from trees, Cows fall when you slit their throught. Sorry to be so grim.

 

The earth feeds us thus vegetables and fruit are made to be eatin, Animals even eat veges. Chop the head of brockly and another one grows, chop the head of a chichken and it runs around till it dies.

 

True, but here's a thought for you: Being at the top of the food chain doesn't mean we MUST eat everything below us. It's like having the discipline to drive a fast car slowly.

I decided I wouldn't eat anything that lives. I could be wrong, but I don't think fruits are alive. The diet works for me, and I've got great abs because of it! The only problem is that I don't get too many dinner dates.