I am writing after a looooooooonnnggg time.. But I feel nice about starting again with something I strongly feel about..
I am writing about one of the most argued subjects and my thoughts on that.. Vegetarianism!! I am a staunch vegetarian myself.. But I am not completely against people eating Non-Veg food.. What I am really against is the cruelty on them and also their argument that plants are also living beings..
First, let me talk about the cruelty animals are facing these days!
Why I really bother about killing animals is that people have started to breed them in inhuman ways to satisfy the growing demand for meat (Other than for the pleasure of hunting). When people had to breed them naturally and eat them, there were restricting factors like money, availability etc. Now, companies after companies are breeding birds and animals in a place where they can barely move, which I do not feel as anything less than the Nazi concentration camps from the animals point of view.
I have posted many videos in my blog in the article about "Animal Like or ..." Those videos show a sample of these concentration camps.
Second, their famous argument that Vegetarians kill too..
People who use this as a response knew well themselves that they are using this only as a defense.
One famous person, named Dr. Zakir Naik, went one step over board by comparing plants mentally underdeveloped humans and animals to people with full biological development. I felt pity for him.
My only reply to these arguments were that the plants have a choice of not growing and wasting away if the conditions are not suitable unlike the poor animals in the concentration camps and those killed in Kosheries and such places. Also, if one can compare plants and animal with humans as Dr. Naik did, may be cannibalism is acceptable too.. A cannibal likes a human's meat and so be it.. Let him eat.. Let him breed and eat!!
Since I am not a biological expert myself, I didn't know to express myself as clearly as the response below:
Someone questioned Sir JC Bose, about our use of plants for human food. "The cause of humanitarianism," he wrote, "can only be advanced by change of spirit, and not by making fun of people who feel compassion for the suffering of animals, greatly accentuated by terror when they are being done to death. Obviously, plants do not suffer from this terror, their nervous structure, where present, being far more rudimentary." No statement could be more authoritative or more conclusive.
In other words, as my friend explained, "To imply that vegetarians maintain a one-dimensional ethical stance unconcerned with the death of plants is the wrong springboard.the mind and intellect of a plant is rudimentary as compared to that of an animal.the comprehension of pain is almost non-existent. Pain is demonstrated by averse reactions to negative stimuli that are non-purposeful or even maladaptive."
What we are asking is:
1) Please do not demean vegetarians pity for animals by accusing them of killing plants. Even if so, we are one step better that non-veg people as they kill Plants and Animals.
2) We are not against people eating non-veg food. Once I met a prof. from Univ. of Tennessee who said "My wife and I have taken it as a policy to eat only farm raised animals and also of them also, we do not eat baby meat". This is what a human being is supposed to think and feel like. At least I feel so!
Hope this time, with the help of Sir. JC Bose and the Prof. I have made my stance and some of the other vegetarians stand more clear!
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
