(November 26, 2017 at 11:13 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: They're eating only plants, but aren't plants living things too? Is there any proof that plants don't have feelings or thoughts?Plants don't have a nervous system.
(November 26, 2017 at 11:13 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: Even if all humas stopped eating meat, there will still be other carnivore and omnivore animals, so the killing of animals will never stop.
Oh but it will stop considering the rate of the destruction of wildlife - especially now with Trump in charge. But you do understand there are lots of reasons of not eating meat? Although when it comes to compassion I remember reading in Asimov's autobiography "In Memory Not Yet Green" how during WW2 he was on a vacation in the country side (Asimov was working in US during ww2) and there he promised himself he'll never eat meat after he witnessed a mother cow crying while her calf was being dragged to slaughter, but then in next sentence he noted that he is a hypocrite because at the very moment he returned to the city he started eating meat. Only to kind of regret it years later in his "I. Asimov", which he wrote shortly before his death, where he wrote how he had this serious heart condition and all because he ate greasy and salty food. Now if he stick to his earlier promise he might have lived longer.
But also if one is a meat eater do you eat meat at every meal and every day? Do meat eaters have any constraints like not eating at Mcdonalds or any other junk food?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
