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Originally Posted by deepsand
Are seeds the only part of plants that are eaten by humans?
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No, but some vegetarians in dealing with the assumption that plants do feel, propose or practice eating seeds only, thus still including all the fruit and most of other vegetables.
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As would also seem to be the case for the vast majority of animals.
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A view that many hold to be anthropomorphic, one that does, in truth, assume facts not in evidence for other than a very small number of creatures.
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This is not to say that animals should or need be treated in a manner wholly insensitive to their own sensibilities. And, having been raised in the traditions of both farming and hunting, I can, without fear of contradiction, state that animals, both domesticated and wild, can and are used as food in a manner such that their deaths are far more swift and painless than those experienced by the overwhelming majority of wild and feral creatures.
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So because their deaths are more 'human' when we kill them (btw not true), because they do it among themselves anyway, because there is no evidence of suffering for other than a very small number of creatures (and btw that very small number is huge majority in our industry) should be enough for an argument to excuse slaughtering as an industrial business?
The right question should be:
Do we really need to do it today?
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What in the Abrahamic religions serves to differentiate them form other beliefs with respect to the treatment of animals?
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The superiority given by God, which is very distinctive from most other (meat eating) religions when it comes to the relationship with animals.