Originally Posted by Spartiate
Is it just me that finds eating dead stuff less weird than eating living stuff . If only celery could yell...
Edit: Sorry, I just realized that this comment was in response to the raw food diet. Feel free to ignore.
I don't think you're serious, but just for clarification, three points I'd like to make:
1. If you cut celery off, or you make a salad, I don't think there's much photosynthesis going on anymore.
2. Why do people act like there is no difference between alive with brain, fully developed nervous system
and fully developed conscious abilities (animals dream for example) and plants that are alive as well, but
lacking some of these distinguishing features.
3. Most importantly, if you were to say that vegetarians are unethical, because they eat tons of plants that
are alive as well (if only they could scream) your argument would backfire, since through a plant-based
diet you'd actually be ending up "killing a lot less of them". Letting more plants live is one of the reasons
I'm doing this (aka rainforest and waste of precious food)
I know you weren't totally serious with you remark, but people tried to argue me on that before.
"Yeah? Plants are living things, too, you know" Yea I know, plants are good people.
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