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Best line in the whole post: "I now no longer lie to myself about the fact that life requires death."

I never understood the "Meat is murder" slogan. It's factual. They should have used "Meat is torture". I think it's more accurate with their line of thinking.



I wonder what they think about plant death. You do quite literally kill plants when you rip them out of the ground and take a bite out of them. Even if you only ate nuts or beans you are still killing off their unborn child plants.


There are very strong reasons for thinking that vertebrates feel pain in a way very similar to humans (see e.g. http://philosophyforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-fee...).

There is absolutely no evidence that plants feel anything.


Plants to scream when you kill them. We just can't normally hear it.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15320720.800-stressed-...




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