Paul spake thusly:

>
> When non-vegetarians demand that vegetarians act
> consistently toward nonhuman forms of life, the usual
> line of defense is to show that an outward practical
> consistency between the various cases is inappropriate.
> The appeal is usually to animal consciousness. Plants,
> after all, do not feel pleasure, pain, terror, and so on.

What a narrow, short sighted point of view.
Plants are even MORE helpless than animals since
they cannot flee and you ASSUME as a gratuitous
assertion that plants to not feel pain, pleasure or terror.

I can see a flowering plant reaching a silent orgasm as
the bee rustles around its sensitive sex organs.

The carrots SCREAM as you pull them from the
ground...its been electrically measured.

I see plants moaning in agony during the drought
as they wilt and die.

I decry and denounce your unfeeling treatment
of our green brothers.

Instead, you should value all life and seek not
to practice this horrible discrimination.

Instead, we should eat, but be reverant towards
all plants and animals we consume.

--
Sanford M. Manley
Fer cripes sake, the government will pay for viagra, but then
you have to crawl inside one of them Whack-a-Mole
games for the real action.
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