Not at all. In both cases it is the individual item - whether the fruit or the animal. When you eat a mango, you're eating a mango, not the mango tree or the species
What happens in nature, a lion hunting down a deer is vastly different from human beings cruelly killing animals for consumption. 99.99999% percent of meat eaters do not hunt their animals. They buy the fancy cuts. They manufacture the animals in cruel conditions. They feed them steroids and harmones that literally torture the animals from the inside, just to make the steak bigger or the chicken juicier.
Forget the vegetarianism arguments - look at the inconsistencies. In most parts of the world dogs are considered a pet, they are in some cases treated as members of the family - yet in China it is food!
Similar inconsistency about horses is well known too.
Tell me what the great difference is for a person who loves his horse or dog as a brother yet sits down to eat a steak?
I am not against meat eating for everyone by the way - it cannot be helped given where we as a species have come to become. But we can afford to do that in humane ways.
Peace Shogun Ninjuku
I see what you mean now. However, the argument is still limited. You now sound like a fruitarian and not a vegetarian. Nuts and Fruits can be eaten and their waste is what ensures further growth of the species. However, in the case of vegetables we actually eat them.
To me eating a mango and putting the seed in the ground to grow more mango trees is a touch excessive. If every mango is a potential tree then nature itself prevents ALL mangoes from becoming trees. The chances are of one may be two mangoe trees naturally growing from the mango seed (fruit) in the same vicinity of the parent tree. So all of those others seeds go to waste. Nature controls and curbs its own numbers ... that is all I am trying to say.
Humans are an integral part of that natural cycle.
As far as humane ways to grow and kill to eat animals you will not find better supporters than the educated Muslims on this front ... adding hormones, and ill-treatment of animals is against our beliefs.