Vegetable Rights!

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Lee FitzSimmons†

Temporal Novice
Vegetables are living things. Do they not deserve the same rights that we as rational and intellectual creatures give to all living things.

Not only should we not eat animals and refrain from ravaging the forests, we should not eat vegetables, for they are living creatures and deserve the right to life just as much.

Join me in a new organization called PETV or people for the ethical treatment of vegetables and stop this senseless slaughter immeadiately!
 
So you have commanded me to consume excrement as a non-winner, or someone who is "winning-challenged?"

I am sorry but I cannot fulfill that request.

Think about every time that a helpless carrot is mercilessly plucked out by its root only to be savagely eaten by someone who claims to honor and cherish all life.

Think about every time that an innocent radish is pulled up from its sacred home in the earth, only to be devoured by a "humanitarian."

My god, where does the senseless massacre stop?
 
Tongue planted firmly in that cheek? :D

Bet those humanitarians talk to their herbs before they yank off morsels for their pasta. They miss the silent primordial scream....so munching greens is okey dokey if you can't hear 'em.

Hey, does dirt scream? Been caught spooning some of that in my mouth. :P
 
Yes, Carol, we must all unite to protect the right of all living things, not just our favorite ones.

The trees have been deemed as sanctuaries of life in the ecosystem, and vegetables are plants that live and breathe and feel just as the trees do. We, therefore, cannot go about devouring them whenever our savage hearts desire, but should instead control our instincts with compassion.
 
Lee, I agree. Just because vegetables and plants don't make a noise doesn't mean they like being pulled up from the ground and eaten either.

But, I'm just curious cause I don't think this has been addressed yet...if we are not to eat animals or plants, what is left? What do we eat? I am open to any possiblity...

But I also must say that I don't see anything wrong if someone wants to eat meat or vegetables, so long as we treat these animals and plants with respect while they're still alive...it's the circle of life...all creatures need to eat to survive as a species...but as I said before I am open to hearing about an alternative.

Thanks :)
 
Jerrica, the only viable option left is "passive nutrition", where nothing is consumed at all. Of course, this leads inevitably to death, but as caring, compassionate and civilized beings, there is no other way.

Water and dirt are right out! Think of all the microbial life contained within the two whose precious lives might be jeopardized if we consume them.

Breathing is also highly suspect, but cannot be advoided as easily as eating.
 
Mass human extinction of the pillow-in-your-face variety might take care of the breathing problem. They are made with feathers ergo an environmental statement. Of course there would be no one around to appreciate such measures except those eider ducks.
 
I feel it is the ultimate respect to the life in vegetables and meat animals that we are both good stewards to them and allow them to provide us the life giving nutritional value which is part of thier purpose here.

Dissallowing them the ability to serve by starving ourselves or eating synthetic protiens etc ... if done by too many of us 'starves' the plants and animals of a certain quality of life and is unhonorable. Of course, we can and often do consume them in excess or even waste them ... we must find and stick to a healthy balance.

Does each living entity have a right not to be eaten?
What makes you think such a right exists?

Did god reach down his finger and write "Thou shalt not eat any living entities!" right after his words about murder?
 
Randy, you are right!

God did command us not to murder.

The last time I checked the dictionary, murder was defined as the killing of any living thing.

Meat is murder!

Salad is murder!
 
Thanks Dave :)

I'm sorry, I thought Lee was joking at first but then I wasn't sure...but I didn't mean for my questions to sound so serious. Sorry everyone if ruined the joke lol
 
That is okay, Jerrica.

You ask me what I live on, and I will tell you unabashedly this-

Love.

Ah, breathe in its intoxicating fumes as it rises on ether.

Taste its scintillating aroma as it permeates the swirling breeze.

Love is all you need...

I'm sorry, but I must go now because the men in white uniforms that work in the instituti.... I'm sorry, in the apartments where I live are coming to put me in a strait-jack... I'm sorry, are coming to give me a new outfit.

Gotta go. AUUGGGHHH!!!!!
 
I ask my veggies for permission first, then i yank'em. I explain that i'll die without them and it's up to them. I'm all for plant rights, they live longer than most living things.
 
This threads thesis (IMO)

Vegetables are living things. Do they not deserve the same rights that we as rational and intellectual creatures give to all living things.
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My problem with that:

The rights that all living things have, are they such that we, as rational and intellectual creatures, can give them and take them away at will? The second sentence above seems to imply this.

If they have no other source than us, why should we consistently honor them or worry about honoring them?

If Hillary Clinton gives carrots the right not to be raised in captivity and sold in supermarkets around the nation -- must I honor the right she gave those carrots?

Who can give or recind rights? (Please don't say 'policemen' :) )

If an entity has some certain inalienable rights that I must honor, it is only through the same set of fundamental laws that govern what is 'right' or 'wrong' that they have such rights. Hence the phrase "God-given right ..." comming from those who believe that an entity called God is in charge of such things. So, to know what rights an entity has, one must be familiar with the rule book, so to speak.

Unfortunately, it seems, an unabridged copy of said rule book is not currently available.

IMO and to the best of my knowledge, carrots and cows and such do not have any 'inalienable' or 'God-given' rights which would be infringed upon by us consuming them in our attempts at survival and well-being.

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It is the crass liberalism and 'loose-constructionism' towards the rights of entities that disturbs me here.

But, since this is all a big joke ... I don't know why I let it grab me like this.
 
No, Athena, thank you. My head is right where it ought to be. It has a sense of humor. It also knows that if one dishes it out she ought to be able to take it. Please lighten up, Athena. No one is poking fun at you, but at the idea that we are left little in the way to eat, drink and be merry. Doom and gloom, phooey on 'em.

More respectfully yours as I didn't suggest where you keep your head,
Carol
 
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