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Old 01-16-2008, 12:21 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Vinterland View Post
Irrelevant; vegetables do not think or feel emotions that we animals do.
To all intents and purposes I agree with you.
I'm not all that familiar with this but Jainism seems goes one step further..

there is, incidently, evidence when plant life is attacked by a predator it will release chemical "messages" to neighbouring related plants...... so we are still in an grey area

I don't mean to cramp your Calorie (kilojoule) input ......
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