The scientific reasons to choose between having plants as food or eating animals by killing them.

When people have different views on vegetarianism, the discussion on food turns into an argument. For many people, eating animals seem unethical while having plants as food is appropriate. While, many of the meat eaters believe that eating plants is as similar as consuming animals because they consider plants a living organism. But it’s not the same thing. Here I would focus on some scientific facts which would make u choose between meat and vegeterian food.

To start with, plants do react towards the environmental factors. There are many examples for this. Therefore, a question arises that while eating them, do they suffer pain? Actually humans and animals both have nervous system that make them capable of feeling pain, happiness, excitement, sadness and many more and thus they also embrace emotions and intelligence. While plants don’t consist nervous system, hence they feel no pain due to lack of sentiments and intellect. Although they react to different stimuli due to environmental changes or any insect damage, we can not consider it pain. Moreover, plants do not have nociceptors which are responsible for pain. Hence, plant have an inability to suffer when we eat them.

Eating fruits and vegetables does not mean we are killing plants. In fact, plants have an intention that we consume their fruits. Sounds inappropriate, but it’s TRUE. The reason behind is, fruit comprise of seeds and those seeds have efficiency to produce into a new plant. As plants can’t move and go after their seeds, it becomes our responsibility to germinate them properly. Furthermore, picking vegetables from plants, only strengthens them and does not cause harm as the plant continues its life cycle and eventually dies when the lifespan is over. In case of grains, they are only harvested when they reach maturity.

The scientific thinking behind avoiding animal eating is, while slaughtering animals they give response against our act which causes release of certain chemicals inside their body, as a result of fright and flight response. There are number of chemicals changes associated with slaughtering. When we have their body as food, those chemicals run into our bloodstream resulting into same kind of emotional response in our body. The explanation behind this would be that the body’s mechanism is almost similar of ours and animals. Hence there are chances that we may suffer from fear, tension and may also cause many kinds of disease. In addition, human body have an efficiency to digest plants, while digesting meat would be a difficult task so we have to cook them first. It also effects our ecosystem in many ways because every living being plays an important role for a good balance on earth.

Although there are numerous benefits of animal meat, but research has proven that plants contain all vitamins and nutrients that the human body needs to thrive. Thus, why to kill animals when we have an alternative for keeping ourself nourished and healthy. But again it’s a personal choice. Be wise and make a good choice.