[NSFW] 5 Smart[ass] Answers to 5 Dumb[ass] Questions About Veganism

Originally Posted by Indian Summer

Eh ... Our work web filter has no sense of humour apparently:

And:

I'm not too worried since this happens at least once a week, and I've been in the same job for 5 years without any complaints against me, but it would be nice if links such as this one were posted with a NSFW warning. Just saying. (I'll probably add one to the thread title now.)

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Billy May 17, 2011 at 10:05 pm #
On the sentient plant argument, I've been an organic gardener since I was 4 years old. My parents didn't call it organic back then but my dad made compost and we picked the bugs off the plants instead of using DDT. I go way back. When you pick a leaf of lettuce what happens? It grows back. When you lop a leg off a lamb what happens? It suffers immeasurable pain, struggles and bleats to save itself, bleeds to death and dies.

The fruit and veggies we eat are membranes protecting seeds. They are designed to come off a tomato plant or apple tree. We pull carrots at their ripest. What happens if you leave them an extra week or two? They're dead. Every plant part I've consumed has been happy to give it up. No animal I've ever seen in any slaughter vid has marched cheerfully toward getting their tracheas ripped out, pelts melted off with hot oil, heads nail-hammered, throats slit to get strung up, half-conscious, and butchered alive.

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