Jubal_Harshaw
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- Mar 29, 2006
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I've been told by some people I should eat plants & vegetables & the like, and lay off eating meat because it's cruel to animals.
So I thought about it, & I said y'know I don't think that's really so. Do you know what they do to plants on those farms?
Take wheat. There's enormous fields all crowded full of wheat as tight as you can pack it in. Is it cared for? Hell no. It's left out in the baking sun day after day trusting to luck if it'll get some water from rain, and do you know what they do to that wheat? They castrate it! That's right. Not only wheat, but all kinds of seed. The sellers make sure you'll have to buy more seed from them next time because the seed's been fooled with. What the plant makes won't give another crop worth diddly, so it has no purpose but to be harvested & eaten.
And do you know how they do that? One day a great machine just rolls up and starts into the wheat cutting its heads off, and it's done in the open alongside the other wheat the machine hasn't got to yet. Did you know plants know what's happening to other plants? Oh yes they do!
And you know what they do with that wheat don't you? It's gound up, zzzhhhttt like that into a powder, mixed up and baked in an oven to make bread. And that's not cruel?
And the plant can't do anything about it. At least an animal maybe can make a break for it, or bite you or something. The plant's just got to take it lying down, so to speak. So next time you fang a slice of bread or stab your fork into that pumpkin, think of the horrible force-fed raising on manure, brutal harvesting and heartless processing the poor plant has endured, and see if you can find it in your heart to eat it!
So I thought about it, & I said y'know I don't think that's really so. Do you know what they do to plants on those farms?
Take wheat. There's enormous fields all crowded full of wheat as tight as you can pack it in. Is it cared for? Hell no. It's left out in the baking sun day after day trusting to luck if it'll get some water from rain, and do you know what they do to that wheat? They castrate it! That's right. Not only wheat, but all kinds of seed. The sellers make sure you'll have to buy more seed from them next time because the seed's been fooled with. What the plant makes won't give another crop worth diddly, so it has no purpose but to be harvested & eaten.
And do you know how they do that? One day a great machine just rolls up and starts into the wheat cutting its heads off, and it's done in the open alongside the other wheat the machine hasn't got to yet. Did you know plants know what's happening to other plants? Oh yes they do!
And you know what they do with that wheat don't you? It's gound up, zzzhhhttt like that into a powder, mixed up and baked in an oven to make bread. And that's not cruel?
And the plant can't do anything about it. At least an animal maybe can make a break for it, or bite you or something. The plant's just got to take it lying down, so to speak. So next time you fang a slice of bread or stab your fork into that pumpkin, think of the horrible force-fed raising on manure, brutal harvesting and heartless processing the poor plant has endured, and see if you can find it in your heart to eat it!
