ALL VEGETARIANS - do you eat clams or oysters?

How do i explain to my friends why i don't eat clams or oysters. Do they have a brain? Can they think? because if i say i don't eat them because they were once living, then ppl start asking me why i eat plants.

ALL VEGETARIANS - do you eat clams or oysters?
i eat them once or twice a year but i mostly eat crabs.
Reply:You don't eat clams because you're a vegetarian. Tell people it is your choice and that's all that matters.
Reply:Plants don't have the sensation of touch or pain, therefor most vegetarians, like myself , usually don't eat seafood. Plants are autotrophs, totally different structure from animals. By being a vegetarian, you vow not to eat living beings. Living being is pretty vague, but from my understanding it pertains to animals, so in my opinion I think it's bets not to eat oysters and clams they too have feelings and touch.
Reply:Im not a vegetarian cause I like animals.......................





Im a vegetarian cause I hate plants!!!!!!!
Reply:Hiya, they have a face a brain and a nervous system.Plants do not!! it sounds like your friends are trying to 'stir' the shitake!!!!!!!
Reply:I don't eat them and I'm a vegetarian. ♥
Reply:1. a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, fowl, or, in some cases, any food derived from animals, as eggs or cheese, but subsists on vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc





Easy peasy! Quote the dictionary!
Reply:No I dont eat clams or oysters or any seafood because its alive. Its no use getting into the "fish have feelings too" debate. There's other roads to go down, such as the overfarming of the ocean and the mercury content of seafood.
Reply:OK you eat plant because are naturally food for you and no i don't eat oyster or clam because you are not to eat it if you want but remember that they were living once, and plants can not have eggs are babes right, but clam and oyster can and so do we so tell your Friends that k
Reply:Do you like clams or oysters? have you ever eaten some? If you don't like them, just say "I don't like them". If you say you don't eat them because the were once living, well, then you should stop breathing, because every time you breathe your inmune system kills thousands of organisms... Or never bath again, you are killing germs!!... Don't eat anything... anything at all... Mr. Spock said it once: "In a strict scientific sense, Doctor, we all feed on death - even Vegetarians".
Reply:Vegetarians do not eat clams or oysters. If they don't know the difference between a mollusk and a plant, then you need smarter friends ... better yet, just tell them you're allergic!
Reply:save a cow, eat a vegetarian
Reply:I eat neither one of them. People always ask me why i don't eat clams or oysters and i just simple say because they are animals. Even though i eat plants, they are not animals so that is different.. i hope I could help you.
Reply:They are animals. Not plants. Just leave it at that.
Reply:No, I don't eat any dead members of the animal kingdom, brain or not. If I did, I wouldn't be vegetarian, by definition.
Reply:i dont eat eaither i just dont like them.If your a vegitarian it doesnt matter if you eat it.People are probably just weridos asking you why you eat plants you eat veggies because you think they taste good and that theres nothing wrong with them.You just would like salads and fruits better then a Hamburger or a grilled chicken sandwhich.Who cares if you eat pants i dont let it bother me.People say how can you be a vegetarain and i just say because i dont like to animals and i prefere fruits and vegetables better then hot dogs and hamburgers .So go ahead be vegetarian AND BE PROUD! cause there aint nothing wrong!!!
Reply:I think oysters do have brains.





They think "damn this grain of sand is scratchy. I better smooth it over into a pearl".
Reply:NO vegetarian eats seafood. Clams and oysters`are animals, not plants.
Reply:I say if it toke in one breath of oxygen to live. plants don't so your good.
Reply:People get freaky with me about the whole "well plants are living things too". Some people consider themselves veggie but eat types of seafood, I don't, others don't. It's a matter of personal choice really.





I usually go beyond the whole animal cruelty thing when I have to get down to defending myself. Brain or no brain, the ammount of fishing that goes on(for clams, oysters or other types of seafood) screws with our eco-system. You can do some reasearch on this is you feel the need to learn more. When we removes entities that are natually occuring in a specific place(clams in the ocean), we screw up a balance. Over farming crops isn't neccessarily the best. Everything comes in moderation. I don't really know whether the little guys have brains or feelings either, but I don't want to support an industry that blows our planet out of whack.
Reply:Tell them you don't eat them because they taste like fishy rubber bands(clams) or look too much like snot(oysters). Maybe you don't eat them because the can carry hepatitis? It's harder to argue with you if you just pass it off as "I don't like the taste."