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Are meat eaters killers?
Dolphins eat fish. Lions eat deer. Humans eat cows and chickens.
I am on the fence about this. When I do eat meat, I prefer, “Mystery Meat.”
“Mystery Meat” comes from a store. I will eat chicken. I have chickens that have names and I wouldn't harm, kill or eat them. I don’t want to see the feathers, faces, feet, or basically details. Maybe I am a killer. Hm.
To some vegetarians, probably.
Some people think is cruel to kill plants or pick berries to eat. The fact us, and other animals, plants do not have nociceptors, the specific types of receptors that are programmed to respond to pain.
They also, of course, don’t have brains, so they lack the machinery necessary to turn those stimuli into an actual experience. This is why plants are incapable of feeling pain.
We don’t have to Entirely Kill a Fully grown Plant or a Tree, Only a Portion or a Part of its Produce like Grains, Seeds, Cereals, Nuts, Inflorescence, Fruit, Unripened Fruits, Leaves, Barks of Trees, etc can be used as Food for Feeding Animals or Human beings.
To me, maybe we are splitting hairs.
If we Cut a Plant — We can see its Sap or Plasma oozing out like juice, but this…
