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That's good to know. I was thinking of root vegetables at the time I wrote this. I suppose I should rephrase my question as: should we avoid eating plants that we need to kill in order to consume?

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existential1 wrote

For the "new" question...I would still not consider an issue. Mostly for the same reason that i think veganism has contextual limits as well (even though I'm vegan). Some root vegetables, like potatoes, are prolific spreaders. If you happen to have them growing in an open area, they can quite easily start to disrupt other systems you have going. So as a base case, I don't think it's an issue in certain contexts.

That being said, I really don't have an issue with eating root vegetables at all. You can grow more than you could ever plant with the seeds of a few plants (one plant for prolific seeders), and some things don't last through the seasons anyway. Also, though I have very strong opinions about grafting trees, I don't in general view the caloric consumption of vegetables to be all that controversial.

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