Re: Harvest time = dead bunnies! Oh my!

Posted by Suhail on 12-26-2007 in To be, or not to be... a vegetarian?!

I think part of understanding a vegetarian's beliefs coincides with your ability to understand them at all. There are many vegetarians and they all have different beliefs. In the case of vegetarians who are Jains (reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism) they generally believe in killing the least amount of organisms they can to sustain their own life. Many Jains where sheets over their mouths to avoid kill airborne organisms and sometimes sweep the ground they walk on to avoid stepping on any organisms as well. These are obviously, in some regard, extremist beliefs.

Sure, we have all stepped on an ant or killed a fly. Was I wrong to? Yes, I was--I am not afraid to admit it. Here in lies the question, do you not feel that you have no divine right or reasonable justification for killing another animal? Do you not think to yourself and admit, yes I am wrong for doing that?

I have no justification to say, yes killing a chicken was necessary to sustain my life. We're at the top of the food chain and we're capable of realizing, all of us, that there are other ways to sustain our life without the unnecessary killing of animals. Many of us are LIVING proof that you do not need to kill to sustain your own life. If you don't eat a chicken, the human race doesn't devolve in any way. The act is selfish. You omnivores in the world, provide me some real justification that what you do is necessary for your survival.