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People for the Unethical Treatment of Plants
Monday, January 25, 2010
Some extracts from a recent NYT article:
...[B]efore we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot.
The more that scientists learn about the complexity of plants — their keen sensitivity to the environment, the speed with which they react to changes in the environment, and the extraordinary number of tricks that plants will rally to fight off attackers and solicit help from afar — the more impressed researchers become, and the less easily we can dismiss plants as so much fiberfill backdrop, passive sunlight collectors on which deer, antelope and vegans can conveniently graze.
Plants:
-“forage” for resources like light and soil nutrients and “anticipate” rough spots and opportunities
-respond to touch, sight, hearing, speech, recognize different wavelengths of light, listen to chemical signals and "talk” through chemical signals.
-Cry for help. Some of the compounds that plants generate in response to insect mastication — their feedback, you might say — are volatile chemicals that serve as cries for help.
PETAWATCH ethical dietary tip for PETA supporters: try dead twigs and sticks.
11 comments:
First we have to accept that animals feel pain - ok.
But who is "Unethical Plant Treatment"?
How awfully funny, the potatoes we peel, screaming with tears in their eyes "don't eat me"?
Every living thing has the desire to live. You dont find anything in nature that strives to die.
Does that mean we eat nothing?
Now I have the chance to talk to my cereal bar? Plants maybe react on light or principally on their environment, probably the vibration of a voice because of it's frequency, but not more!
Funny how all the pro-vegans are called 'Anonymous'.
pass the potato a tissue ;)
"Funny how all the pro-vegans are called 'Anonymous'."
Yeah, Get with it Admin aren't you supposed to be deleting all Anonymous posts, and if they are creating the screen name "Anonymous" isn't not allowing the Anonymous function pointless
"Anonymous(es)": Your comment has been deleted as per our new comments policy. A usename is now a requirement.Please choose one to repost.
Yes thank you Truth for your policing of the policy. We have oscillated with it in the past but now all comments require the use of a username. Its not that hard folks: just make one up.
My post has been removed and I'm not a vegan! You work with prejudices.
"My post has been removed and I'm not a vegan! You work with prejudices."
No-its just our new policy!
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