Very interesting and informative read. Doesn't change my perspective though. Even if it's true that plants are sentient, how is that a justification to eat animals?
Whatever plants sense, I'm convinced that they don't feel pain, at least not in the same way animals do. And the intelligence they display seeks to be more like adaptation by evolution than anything else. One of the things plants have evolved to do is make animals eat them. They have made their seed pods sweet, juicy and delicious so we eat their seeds and spread them about in our auto-fertilizer packs (ie: poop). Pretty smart, eh? But more "evolutionary smart" than anything else. There are actually "fruitarians" who only eat (you guessed it) the fruit of plants. I can see their point... Cheers, frank On October 31, 2015 12:20:31 AM EDT, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: >Perhaps this will change your perspective? > >http://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/aug/04/plants-intelligent-sentient-book-brilliant-green-internet > >Alan C > >-----Original Message----- >From: knarf >Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 6:14 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >Subject: Re: PESO: Poke > >According to a Young Cattleman on an agriculture propaganda site: > >"Corn is the predominant grain used because it is a great source of >starch >(carbohydrates) utilized for energy. Other grains used include oats, >barley, >sorghum, distillers (brewers) grains, and by-products of numerous grain >and >fiber milling processes. These are referred to as the concentrate >portion >of the ration. > >Corn or wheat silage is a very common feed ration ingredient to be >used. It >can account for the forage and concentrate portion of the diet. Silage >is >the entire plant (seed and stalk), harvested in an earlier stage with >higher >moisture, then stored in an anaerobic environment (without oxygen) >where >fermentation occurs and breaks down the plant cell walls." > >That's for beef cattle, anyway. > >And even if there were soy, it's hardly natural for ruminant. > >Cheers, > >frank > >On October 30, 2015 3:10:27 PM EDT, "P.J. Alling" ><[email protected]> wrote: > >>Soybeans is a large part of animal feed, corn hardly has enough >>nourishment. One of the problems of the native American cultures was >>lack of large domesticable animals, and suitable easily domesticable >>grasses. No culture that had a choice would have chosen Corn, and the >>only tractable large ruminant in the Americas was, well there wasn't >>one. -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
