Vegan activists tend to throw out bate to draw in people to educate...
Sometimes they get a few nibbles...
These nibbles are reeled in and are often times excuses on why not to go vegan...
I'm here to reply to the excuses...
Welcome to VEGBATE
Intelligence: -Plants are very intelligent theres no doubt there. Plants are able to produce gases to warn other plants of danger or ripen fruits & vegetables, call in helpful insects, release caffeine so bees come back, tilting towards the sunlight to grow bigger, growing roots to reach water and stabilize themselves. BUT they are not capable of emotion or empathy like animals.
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Sentience: -Plants are not sentient; this means a plant does not contain a nervous system and therefore has no way of feeling pain.
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Talking: Plants release Ethylene gas when picked or injured, Ethylene is a natural gas released to ripen fruits or vegetables. In studies claiming plants can talk they take the Ethylene gas and capture it in a bell jar then pass it through tubes to a "complex device" that bombards molecules with specially calibrated laser. The lasers make the molecules vibrate and that vibration produces a sound wave which can be picked up over a microphone (http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/pages/PC2000F) . This is a plant talking. Note that any gas from anywhere can be captured to "talk" this dosen't mean the plant is crying out from pain (keep in mind they arnt sentient), as this happens even when the plant is left alone... it still ripens, it still releases Ethylene gas... it still "talks".
Why Do vegans eat plants and not animals? -Vegans eat plants and not animals because plants are not sentient, they cannot feel pain unlike animals when harvested. * plants also rely on the wind and other animals eating them to spread their seeds.
ASK YOURSELF: -If plants really could feel pain why isn't there any plant activists fighting for and protecting plants?
-why are house plants left behind in house fires but animals are rescued?
-What do you do everyday to cause the least amount of plant casualties as possible? If I were you and believed plants felt pain I would be following a plant based diet (vegan diet) because less plants are killed. The leading causes of rainforest destruction are livestock and feedcrops. = Lots of Trees and other plants being killed to make room for livestock and feed crops to feed the human population meat and dairy products. Worldwide, cows eat 135 billion pounds of food each day. Holy everyday... 135billion pounds of plants are being killed! And that's only to produce meat and dairy products!
Land required to feed 1 person for 1 year: Vegan: 1/6th acre Vegetarian: 3x as much as a vegan Meat Eater: 18x as much as a vegan
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Look at all the plant lives lost! And eating a plant based diet saves the most. Definitely something to consider. http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
