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Why is killing plants okay but not animals?
Vegans justify killing plants by the fact that plants likely don’t feel pain like animals do. Plants respond to their environment but lack nerves and brains. There would be no evolutionary benefit for plants to feel pain, as they can’t move. Also, vegans kill fewer plants than meat-eaters in practice.
What happens to animals if we all go vegan?
In all cases, if the world were to go vegan overnight or very quickly, the animals who cannot be returned to the wild will be slaughtered, abandoned, or taken care of in sanctuaries. Most likely, the world will go vegan gradually, and the animals in captivity will be gradually phased out.
Are vegans killing the environment?
Vegan and vegetarian diets are not damaging the environment in and of themselves; the problem is with the underlying agricultural practices that are responsible for producing most of the fruits and vegetables consumed around the world.
Do vegans just eat plants?
Vegans eat exclusively plant-based food. In other words, they do not eat animals or animal-based products. But there is much more to a vegan way of life than diet. Whether it’s caring for animals, the environment, or one’s own health, there is a multitude of reasons to choose a vegan lifestyle.
Do vegans kill animals when they eat plant food?
The Vegan Mythbusting series uses science to debunk propaganda against veganism. As a vegan, I’ve often heard the refrain that animals are killed when plant food is harvested – effectively, animal consumers indicate that vegans eat food whose production involves wholesale slaughter of small wildlife that lives on farms.
Why don’t vegans eat meat or meat products?
They don’t eat root vegetables to avoid killing life. But most vegans simply don’t eat meat or use animal biproducts. ‘Vegetable cultivation occupies much smaller areas, reducing the [environmental footprint], and has a much lower cumulative energy demand (CED) than with animal meat products.
What does it mean to be vegan?
A vegan abstains from using animals. Vegans don’t eat meat or animal secretions, and many eschew leather, silk, and all other products derived from animals because they believe life is sacred. Jains, whose guiding light is the sanctity of all life, are perhaps the purest vegans.
How much more land does meat production use than vegan food?
On average, meat production uses 16 times more land than producing vegan food of equivalent nutrition. There goes the math. But all this arguing over harvester machines overlooks an important fact: most of the world’s food production does not even use machines.