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Originally Posted by Argento
I've got a question here which I've never gotten an answer to, and/or I haven't asked it...... However what's the difference between killing a animal and killing a plant? They're both alive right? They both react to, say, cut limbs. They both live on water, and both try to stay alive and survive. Plants have developed defense mechanisims for animals that might eat them, like wise animals have claws or other natural defenses at their dissposal.
Now maybe there's some basic biological meaning here that I'm missing which disgtingishes the two completely from each other, but if not how come nobody cares at all about eating plants, but some get a huge boner against eating animals?
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From Notting Hill:
Keziah: No thanks, I'm a fruitarian.
Max: I didn't realize that.
William: And, ahm: what exactly is a fruitarian?
Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feeling so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush - that are, in fact, dead already.
William: Right. Right. Interesting stuff. So, these carrots...
Keziah: Have been murdered, yes.
William: Murdered? Poor carrots. How beastly!
From The Simpsons:
"I'm a level four vegan: I won't eat anything that casts a shadow."
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Originally Posted by Brave Ulysses
Sorry but your post and especially the quote included in it make you just seem like a jackass.
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I can live with that
I buy free range and cage free and what-have-you when I can afford it. I would like to be able to support those movements/efforts more than I do, but that stuff is expensive and I am poor. My denying myself some of my favorite food is not going to make a difference, so I just can't get myself to worry too much about it. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to meet my wife for lunch at the deli.