RE: The redneck strike again.
May 23, 2014 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2014 at 9:39 pm by bennyboy.)
(May 23, 2014 at 12:20 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: What you brought up is subjective. Pain is something that just happens and do plants feel pain? (http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...chamovitz/) you be the judge here. There are trees that send a pheromone to other trees to warn of a predators or other dangers (http://www2.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF7/762.html). Just because plants are immobile does not make them less. This is the critical error that most vegans/vegetarians make. Their while premise is based on the inductive logic about stimuli and reactions from their environment from the position of the animal kingdom. This whole axiom is founded in a bias assumption that animals are the template which we measure all life.
This is goofy logic. We know for sure that animals suffer. Many of the animals we eat have a nervous system almost identical to our own, and we therefore have some insight into the nature of their suffering.
Maybe plants do experience suffering. Maybe a crystal suffers when it is broken. Maybe the Earth suffers when its orbit more closely approaches the sun. Maybe a hammer suffers every time it hits a nail. But none of this speculation is a good reason to ignore and deliberately sustain the suffering that we know exists, and which is for the most part inflicted on animals whose existence is unnecessary.
Now, if you can show me an animal that doesn't suffer, and doesn't eat much more food than it produces, then maybe we are looking at a new paradigm. Until then, please stop with the goofy logic.