Posted by Primer Gray (208.255.196.22) on January 30, 2003 at 17:44:59:
In Reply to: Re: To any vegans posted by Mikko (193.234.247.51) on January 30, 2003 at 10:55:34:
> > > --Aren't plants living things?
> > I respect plants in that they give me life and nourishment and all that. I couldn't live without eating plants, but I can without animals. When I grow my gardens in the spring I have a lot of respect for the plants growing there. I don't step on them, I give them water and inspect them daily for signs of deterioration and etc etc.
> > The difference is that eating a plant isn't cruel, when killing something that feels pain is.
> 1) Modern slaughtering methods are painless at the actual moment of death.
> 2) Plants do feel pain.
Hmm, that's an interesting concept...I mean...farms that raise food, harvest it quickly and mercilessly. Of course they don't expect it...how would one counsel cows or wheat about the harvesting that is to befall them? Plants, grown in their pins...packed in so tightly that they can't even sway in the breeze...unable to run from the combine....