Perhaps you have a burning question relating to veganism?
Plants have an awareness and more evidence is coming to light each year that suggests plants feel distress or some kind of pain. Why do vegans find it acceptable to kill and eat plants and not animals? Isn't killing other animals as natural as a wolf killing a deer?
Yes, animals kill other animals - that's a fact of life on earth. Yet most humans alive today do not need to kill other animals to survive and thrive. Humans do not need animal foods to be healthy, yet we cannot live without eating plants. If I gave you a sledge hammer and a choice between smashing the head of a dog or the head of a cabbage, which would you choose? and why? Animals have a central nervous system whereas plants do not. Plants may go through some distress, but it has never been proven that they feel pain or emotion. If I cut a limb off my apple tree, the tree grows a new limb. If I cut a leg off a dog, it is crippled for life. Also, many plants want to be eaten (such as fruits) it is how they disperse their seed and keep their species going. Kenneth Damro
What's wrong with free range, organic meat, dairy and eggs? If the animals are happy and living a good life isn't that what's important?
Whether animals are considered free range or not, they are still commodities used by humans and are killed in the prime of their lives. When we use animals as commodities, we "use" them as we see fit usually for profit. If an animal doesn't produce a product as humans see fit, they are "culled" and killed since it is usually not economically feasible to keep non productive animals. Would you do this to your dog or cat? Also, many free range animals, are still living in very tight quarters that are often filthy, over crowded and unhealthy. Whether cattle are free range or not, farmers need to cut and make hay in the summer for winter feed. Cutting hay usually kills many wild animals such as snakes, rabbits, mice, grassland bird nests, deer fawns, etc. and leaves the landscape unsuitable for wildlife afterward. Animal agriculture is very land and resource intensive and it is published and well accepted that a meat eater uses approximately 22 times the land that a vegan uses for food. In addition, many farmers - especially chicken and egg operations need to perpetually trap wildlife in order to keep their animals safe from predators. Whether domestic animals are free range or not, the fact remains that the females are exploited as reproductive machines, and the males are killed as a by product of the industry. Kenneth Damro
If everyone quit eating and using farm animals wouldn't those animals go extinct?
All of our domesticated animals are bred from wild species. There was a time when all of these wild animals evolved through natural selection to be the best they could be in their environment. Humans have taken them and bred them to be of more use to us and in that process the animals have lost many of their wild traits and most could not survive on their own now. So yes, over time, if people stopped breeding domestic animals, they would die out and we'd be left with their wild ancestors which have survived in the wild for millennia. Kenneth Damro
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