kore wrote
Reply to comment by ziq in What’s an unpopular opinion that you hold when it comes to anarchism or general leftist thought? by byro1234512345
Living beings aren't for your consumption
Interesting to me that you say "living beings" and not "animals" here. Was this intentional to include plants, fungi etc.? If so, how do you integrate this mindset into the will to live? I've struggled with it a lot recently, how do I treat plant foods in a non-commodified way. The best I've come up with so far is that it's mutual aid, we help propagate the plants in exchange for some of their bodies and/or yield.
256 wrote
The more animals you let kill, exploit and consume, the more plants are consumed.
Plants don't feel pain.
rattledlove1139 wrote
But that still is something under study if plants feel pain, i thought
Would not be something we understand with our flesh and blood and nervous systems different from plants, that's why still under study, but I don't think entirely impossible. Plants send distress signals and move and communicate too, also complex little beings.
I rather remember and be grateful for all beings that give up time energy or life to produce my food, human workers too, than worry about what life forms can or can't feel pain and try live with that. Because we don't know for certain, and some day could prove very very wrong.
Right now not much food comes without harm someone or something somewhere on the way... workers or plants or animals or land herself. It is very much worth and in need to change but not worth to hurt and berate yourself over if someday something you thought true turns out wrong
moonlune wrote
Plants don't feel pain any more than a computer feels pain.
Because we don't know for certain, and some day could prove very very wrong.
We do know for certain that animals do feel pain though.
rattledlove1139 wrote
Not saying not just my point is if someone is vegan specifically because animals feel pain but plants do not, some day understanding of that might change and then what? Eat nothing? even animal studies on pain and emotion still relatively new let alone plant life. Nothing against people choose to cut out any category product just i think reason should be more than about cutting out who can feel pain. Human workers feel pain too, and they're involved no matter what you eat
256 wrote
The more animals you let kill, exploit and consume, the more plants are consumed.
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