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The plant matter of a fruit is still alive, though. At some point you're drawing an arbitrary line that separates the living things that are okay to eat from th
by fluoridation 3y ago
The plant matter of a fruit is still alive, though. At some point you're drawing an arbitrary line that separates the living things that are okay to eat from those that are not.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoThat depends on the definition of "alive". Fruits don't respire which a lot of definitions include. And yes, it's going to be an arbitrary line.
- fluoridation 3y agoPerhaps not the fruit as a whole, but the individual cells certainly do.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoGoing to the cellular complicates matters. That'd probably mean that you'd have to wait for fruit and veg to go mouldy before eating it and then do we consider fungus to be alive?
- fluoridation 3y agoLike I said, arbitrary lines. The only way to sidestep it completely would be if you could directly synthesize sugars, lipids, and proteins. Then you could sustain people killing-free.
- chr-s 3y agoIt's not whether they're alive but if they can suffer.