A personal choice or a principle of justice

Everyone does what he wants ... or maybe not
Vegetarianism Justice

Often it comes to vegetarianism as a personal choice that we choose or not. Is it fair this review, let’s see.

In principle, within the variety of foods out there, everyone can eat whatever he wants. And in general, you can do whatever you want. But this freedom has, for all the people responsible for their actions, a limit.

That limit is the dignity of others. I can act as I always pleases not cause any unfair damage. I can throw all the stones to the air anytime and anywhere, if I find that funny. But if I purposely threw a stone at his head, I'm already acting outside the limits set by the respect you deserve.

Plants and vegetarians: Did you also suffer plants?

The central nervous system
Plants do not have central nervous system, or anything similar to a brain. When we prick a finger with a thorn, that information is communicated by the nervous system to the brain, where the sensation of pain is generated. Therefore, only beings with a central nervous system can suffer and feel pleasure. A plant does not have anything like that allows suffering.
Plants also feel.
The fundamental difference is that psychologically a plant does not have a mental perception of his life. The animals are aware of being alive. Our life experience, hurt and suffering if we enjoy our existence. We flee from unpleasant feelings and avoid death.

A plant does not perceive their own existence. We can say metaphorically that no one in the stem of a plant, so we cannot harm anyone by cutting a leaf. To put it another way the plants are not subject of a life.

Why plants lack nervous system?

The reason is that their evolutionary survival strategy is different from most animals. The ability to feel pain is selected by evolution for animals can escape from possible dangers feature. If approaching fire fingers feel the pain that tells us that if the hand aside quickly suffer severe burns.

Types of Vegetarians

There are many trends in vegetarianism. The motivations that lead us to be vegetarians are varied and therefore there are many types.

Types of vegetarians

What they have in common all vegetarian diets is their rejection of the meat of the animals, whether these birds, mammals and fish. Thus, although some people who call themselves vegetarians eat fish, indeed they would not be, it can at best be called semi vegetarians.

Traditionally it sets for vegetarians the following classification depending on what products of animal origin referred to abstain for one way or another

Vegans
They are vegetarians who abstain from all animal products, including milk, eggs or honey. The main motivation of vegans is respect for other animals. Therefore, to the extent that animal products involve the exploitation of animals, Veganism is proposed as an attitude that promotes the release of other animals of this oppression. See what is veganism?

Do you eating fish? No Thanks

Fish are animals that die in greater numbers by the action of humans. And our consumption is the leading cause of death and suffering.

Choking on a fish

You may not have much empathy for the fate of a fish and we feel closer to mammals such as a cow or a dog, whose resemblance to us is greater.

However, we can understand that to fish their lives are important and that their sufferings are as undesirable to them as ours are to us. Despite its appearance, there is no reason not to respect them.

Fish have a complex nervous system, like other animals feels pain and enjoy life.

Unlike other animals, fish cannot scream when they suffer, but they are fully aware of what happened pain and suffering.

The fish usually die painfully decompression when they are pulled to the surface by fishing nets. Many others die from asphyxiation when taken out of water. The crushing or freezing in cold storage are other common causes of death of the fish.