Asked by fromstarstostarfish
Firstly, I don’t know how anyone can take the whole plant argument seriously. I feel that only 8 year olds would try to argue that plants should deserve rights like sentient beings should. It’s like when I was little and I picked a leave off a tree at school and the teacher told me not to because when you pick leaves off trees you can hear them scream. I believed it because I was 8 but then I grew up. Plants cannot feel pain, they don’t have a brain, nor do they have a heart or any organs. They are not sentient.
Your second point, it’s not just the fact of wether or not animals are mistreated before they are killed. Veganism is the belief that we should not mistreat animals, eat them, enslave them or exploit them. I living sentient being should be able to live and live a free life. Just because the animal is “free range” or fed grass doesn’t make it ok that they are still being killed.
Third. Yes aboriginal people ate meat. That argument can be thrown out the window because it does not apply to us, we are not aboriginal people. Would you think it’s fine for someone to take your life and eat you just as long as they said thanks when they are feeding on your corps? I don’t think so.
And fourth, not all vegans eat soy because some people are allergic to it along with other vegans who have other food allergies that still continue to keep the vegan diet. As your claim that a lot of the other foods in our diet are some how unhealthy I have never seen a vegan have health problems for eating nuts, grains, peas, corn ect. In fact it is the opposite, more people have problems from eating meat products. Hell I go weeks living off beans and rice and I’m completely fine. Anyway veganism has nothing to do with eating healthy it’s 100% about the animals.
