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>not harming sentient creatures Plants are sentient creatures

• shadunkle 8y ago
  Our current scientific understanding in no way leads to such a conclusion. However, even considering the hypothetical that plants are sentient, eating plants actually causes the least harm seeing as livestock are not very efficient converters of plants to meat.
  • wu-ikkyu 8y ago
    >Our current scientific understanding in no way leads to such a conclusion. False: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology... https://asknature.org/strategy/leaves-signal-presence-of-predators/#.W0lsWXNOk0M https://asknature.org/strategy/leaves-signal-presence-of-pre... >eating plants actually causes the least harm seeing as livestock are not very efficient converters of plants to meat. Let's continue this facile logic to it's conclusion: if animals are causing so much "harm", why shouldn't we kill them to prevent them from "harming" so much?