[ SECRET POST #3715 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3715 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

Strictly speaking, the purpose of a vegetable is to create more vegetables. A fruit may have seeds that can survive in an animal's gut and be excreted in some distant place, but I don't think cabbage, for instance, directly benefits from being edible except in the sense that humans plant it to eat it.

[mimi_sardinia]

Yeah, true, though I think, for me, this comes down to my thoughts on "Do plants feel?". I always wonder why people want to argue that plants have feelings, when not just humans but almost all the animals that exist in the world eat plants (even some carnivores will nibble on plants a bit - cats eat grass as a form of self-treatment).

And that "Do plants feel" often comes up in meat-eating debates. Even I, an unrepentant meat-eater, can acknowledge that animals definitely feel pain, and try to actively avoid death in a way that is recognisable to us.

[feotakahari]

I'm not sure I understand where you're coming from here. Whether or not plants feel pain is an objective fact. If plants were to feel pain, that would not be changed just because humans didn't know about it. Are you saying there's more happiness in not knowing, or do you mean something else?

To be clear, I don't think plants feel pain. I'm just trying to follow your logic.

[mimi_sardinia]

I think it's a lot easier on my mind to know that plants do not have minds, or feel pain.