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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Vegan Bullshit Bingo #22

  Plants have feelings too

  No, they do not. There is no serious study to suggest that they do. Plants do not have a brain or central nervous system. At most, they respond to stimuli. If you really care that much about the welfare of plants, you should go vegan, since many more plants “die” for animal feeding.
  Do you feel bad while mowing your lawn? And would you rather rescue a potted plant than a dog from a burning house? Is docking pig tails the same as branch trimming to you? Question upon question…

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  • hans@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    to the extent that they don’t understand that they themselves might die, plants don’t want too be eaten any more than they want to keep living. the same is true for animals

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What part of “Tough shit, I am hungry” made you think I care about the desires of the plant?

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plants communicate.

    Those tears you shed when cutting onions is because of a defence mechanism of the onion, the scent you smell when cutting grass is another.

    We also know that fungi and trees communicate with eachother as well. They even help eachother gain nutrients.

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    • Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, agreed. Life wants to live. Pain and fear is something animals feel so they can get away from potential harm. If you’re immobile like a plant, it doesn’t make sense to feel pain. Plus you don’t have a brain nor a central nervous system. 70% of global crops are fed to animals. Stop eating animals and grow forests there, to make our planet healthier.

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      • x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

        More greenwashing

        I’m surprised how much lemmy lets vegans get away with the greenwashing stuff

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      • hans@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        70% of global crops are fed to animals.

        no, they’re not. why would you lie about something so easy to find the truth?

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• theolodis@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wanna guess how many plants are wasted to feed animals, only for humans to eat them?

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  • x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Wanna know how many of those plants are waste product only and plants only suitable for animal consumption

    Do you see a human eating hay

    Cut the greenwashing crap

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  • hans@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    none. not really. if we are using it, it’s not wasted, and much of what we feed livestock is plants or parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    fun fact: we kill between 1 and 3 TRILLION animals a year for food and textiles.

    Wait, that’s not a fun fact!

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    • hans@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      we? I don’t. stop it.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not all animals are the same. Killing an endangered dolphin weighs much different to eating a mussel.

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      • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        So you’d recommend only eating animals until they are endangered and then eating other animals until they are no longer? Is that what you want to express?

        Or are you arguing that some animals are more sentient than others (e.g. mammals vs mussels), and we should switch to eating snails and mussels only, because of that?

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s it? I was hoping to see at least 10 trillion animals killed this year…

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  • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten.

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    • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      To be completely fair, some plants actually produce fruits with the intent of them being eaten, because that’s their way of Zoochorie/Hemerochorie

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  • Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plants that humans wouldnt be able to digest efficiently anyway, unlesss you are talking about the more bourgeois meats

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    • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Like soy and corn, which famously can’t be digested by humans.

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      • hans@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        people don’t want to eat field corn, but the soy that is given to livestock is mostly the waste product from pressing soybeans for oil

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• markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some do, actually. Most plants that taste good basically rely on being eaten as part of their reproductive cycle.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In particular cultivars. So do pigs.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mostly berries sure but we eat a lot more plants than that.

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck plants! I’ll eat 'em all!

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• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I could photosynthesize and fix my own atmospheric nitrogen, I happily would.

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