Life is good, eat it up (moral, moral)

[Willamena]

This is my take on the veggie-morality debate.

All life feeds on life; life-forms destroying and consuming other life-forms to grow and survive. Some make no distinction between eating a chicken and eating a fruit - both are life killed to support life. Why do vegetarians hold flesh life morally elevated above vegetable life?

[Booko]

I'm not a vegetarian and I don't play one on TV, but I do view animal life as having a higher consciousness than plant life, so I can see where vegetarians for moral reasons are coming from.

[Willamena]

Originally Posted by Booko

I'm not a vegetarian and I don't play one on TV, but I do view animal life as having a higher consciousness than plant life, so I can see where vegetarians for moral reasons are coming from.

Is "higher" consciousness not an arbitrary distinction?

[Terrywoodenpic]

Originally Posted by Willamena

Is "higher" consciousness not an arbitrary distinction?

I am sure that is so.

God established the flora and fauna of this world in such a way as to become a closed food chain. It is not helping this system by becoming vegetarian.

There are good reasons not to unnecessarily destroy life, particularly in a cruel way.
Eating some meat is natural for omnivores like us, but should not, and need not be disproportionate.

[Aqualung]

Originally Posted by Willamena

Is "higher" consciousness not an arbitrary distinction?

All distinctions are at some level arbitrary, yet people must create distinctions to even be able to function at all.

[Don Penguinoini]

Plant dont have brains, so they dont feel emotions, they dont have a soul, its ok to eat them. But animals have all this...

[Terrywoodenpic]

Originally Posted by penguino

Plant dont have brains, so they dont feel emotions, they dont have a soul, its ok to eat them. But animals have all this...

What is wrong with life with souls being eaten.
It is a processes set up by God.
When a wild beast eats or kills a man is that in any way wrong or a sin.

[Don Penguinoini]

If you cant give life you have no right to take it.

[Don Penguinoini]

Originally Posted by Terrywoodenpic

What is wrong with life with souls being eaten.
It is a processes set up by God.
When a wild beast eats or kills a man is that in any way wrong or a sin.

No its not wrong, because animals cant eat grains, they need meat, you dont need meat, i dont, you dont. This process has not been intended by god, its our own process.

[Willamena]