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Originally Posted by Vinterland 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 ......  | I'm reading abut it now...I don't see how it is logical to avoid eating living plants. Living organism, check; feels 'pain' as a defense mechanism, check; feels other emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, etc, negative. Finally, they do not think.
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |