I've noticed that many people on this forum are particularly concerned about pain being rendered upon any living creature which they deem has a nervous system capable of making them feel pain. IMO Inflicting unecessary pain on animals shows a disregard for life and ourselves. Factory farming is abhorrent, and its amazing anyone can work in that kind of environment and not start to feel a disregard for themselves and other life-froms.
But I'm not a vegan because I think eating organisms with nervous systems is wrong. If I lived 6,000 years ago when the environment was still pristine, and there were no factory farms, I would probably be eating at least a little meat. In the end, pain is only an evolutionary adaption that has been particularly essential to mobile organisms. All organisms are "designed" to perpetuate their genes. (that is they perpetuate their genes, because if they didn't, no organisms would exist). Plants in general are just as capable at perpetuating themselves as animals are. In my mind, nothing makes a cow more worthy than a cabbage. A cow necessarily feels pain to survive, a cabbage does not have that need, but in the end there is no difference. I am primarily a vegan because of the health and environmental benifits and because factory farming shows a disregard ourselves and other life-forms.
What is pain really? electro-chemical signaling that produces a reaction.
I hope most of you don't think a cow deserves better treatment than a cabbage because it is controled by this mechanism in order to ensure that it passes its genes on to the next generation.
What are the primary reasons you are a vegan?
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