Hey you courious creature! I've compilated some of the most common arguments/excuses that people who consume animal products use against the Vegan lifestyle and argumented them down. The responses are manly based on Gary Yourofsky's "The excuses" speech which I really recommend (I've linked the video down below). I am aware that there are many many many more non-sense statements against Veganism so if you are really bothered by one in particular ask it to me (click here) and I'll try to argument it down for you too. Enough of rambling already so let's get started:
Plants are
alive; you kill the plants when you eat them
Let’s start this issue telling
you that plants are not doted of a general nervous system such as animals do.
Plants do not have a bowel movement and DON’T SHIT. Also, a plant does not have
a mother; when was the last time you could differ the members of a “vegetal
family”? How about never? You really need to be crazy to think that the
broccoli dies when we collect it. Have you ever heard the broccoli scream for
its life? I’m sure not.
But,
anyways, even if plants could feel and they died when collecting them, Veganism
is still better because by eating animals you have to kill the plant first, in
order to feed the animal until it’s big enough and then you kill the animal. By
eating directly from plants you trigger less suffering to living beings, so
this puts Veganism still ahead.
Animals
are here for us to eat them
If you think that humans are
special you are missing a point. You don’t really think that the entire animal
kingdom worships us? Thinks we are special? Believes that we are the image of
God? We are a bunch of bullies, criminals and killers.
Their
bodies do not belong to us. Commodification is the crime as much as murder is.
We need
meat to get protein
Unless you plan on starving
yourself to death it is impossible to not get enough protein in a Vegan diet.
You couldn’t even do it if you tried because all plants have protein even fruit
has around 5% of protein, nuts and seeds and beans and lentils have plenty of
protein. And by the way, beans and lentils have 25% of protein. So the
misconception about eating meat to get the protein is nothing else than that: a
misconception!
Humane
killing
Let me tell you that straight:
there is no such thing as humane killing, or humane slaughter, or humane rape.
If I told you there is a place in Thailand where they humanly raped kids for
the child porn industry; you know, they have a big backyard to play every day
for six glorious hours in between the rapes, would you support it? I don’t
think so. Is that because rape is always evil no matter how it is being done?
There is no
right way to kill someone who doesn’t want to be killed.
God says
it’s okay
If your excuse is to say that
God put all animals in this planet to be our slaves you have a really twisted
conception of God. Because if you think that such things as slaughterhouses
(house-of-slaughter!!!!!) are approved in the eyes of the Great divine; so that
we can cut off the heads off his terrified animals. If you think that he
doesn’t mind that we steel newborn babies from their mothers, or cut their
horns and beaks and tales and teeth off while they’re fully conscious, then
what does de DEVIL do?????? What could a cow, a pig, a chicken or a turkey ever
do to deserve the wrath of Got himself?
We are
carnivores
Comparing
the human body to other’s carnivores and omnivores we can spot some huge
interesting differences to prove that we are by all means herbivores. For
instance, the length of intestines in humans and herbivores falls between 7 to
13 times the length of the torso section of the body while the length of
intestines in carnivores/omnivores is only 3 to 6 times. Also, the lower jaw
moves from side to side –and the food is grinded and chewed- in the mouths of herbivorous.
The jaws of animal meat eaters only move up and down, vertically and they don’t
chew, just rip an swallow. Also humans sweat through their pores to cool down
unlike dogs, cats or lions –who pant.
We have
canines
Hippos have the largest canines of
all animals and they’re 100% herbivores.
Veganism
is expensive
Since when
did bananas and apples and carrots and cucumbers and potatoes and broccoli and
tofu and barley become more expensive than meat, milk, cheese, eggs and honey?
There are some pricey vegan things out there, hell YES!, blueberries are 4€ a
package but you can get 4 bananas for 1€. Veganism is actually one of the
cheapest “diets” out there if you stick to the basics (i.e: lentils, rice,
potatoes, pasta, veggies,…….).
Watch Gary's speech here.
Much love,
Tània
