Why is it that animal seemed having more rights than plants?

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Ok, animals have rights but what about plant rights, why is it ok to kill and eat plants, use their corpses as building materials, confine them to pots, burn them just for heat.
 
cho_pilo said:
Ok, animals have rights but what about plant rights, why is it ok to kill and eat plants, use their corpses as building materials, confine them to pots, burn them just for heat.
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Would you rather starve, be naked, not have a roof over your head?

Plants were given to man and beast as food and for other uses… Noah was told to build an Arc; if not for gopher wood what would he have used? I guess he could have used rocks and mortar, but then to save the plants God may have told him to put in two of each plant thus making for a very, very heavy Arc.

Animals were added to the human menu as food after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden.
 
cho_pilo said:
Ok, animals have rights but what about plant rights, why is it ok to kill and eat plants, use their corpses as building materials, confine them to pots, burn them just for heat.
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Because they have been bad, bad little plants, and they must be punished! Punished, I say!:mad:
 
cho_pilo said:
Ok, animals have rights but what about plant rights, why is it ok to kill and eat plants, use their corpses as building materials, confine them to pots, burn them just for heat.
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You’re right!

I’ve been torturing those poor innocent carrots in the garden. Rearing them just so I could eat them.

I’ll never touch vegetables again if you can suggest to me a proper alternative 🙂
 
I don’t think my houseplants want to leave me…maybe they have Stockholm syndrome, though.

Every summer, I take them outside, free them from their pots, give them a glorious shower while they lay on the lawn, and tell them they are free. However, they just lie there, not moving away. In fact, once it is clear they are NOT running away from me, I once again bind them up in pots (even giving them FRESH SOIL:eek:), and not only do they re-enter my home, they actually seem to FLOURISH, thanking me for keeping them prisoner! Can you imagine?!?🤷

The Willow tree outside is trying to commit suicide, though. It keeps throwing its branches down on the ground, and it even has a split in its trunk. I believe I can hear it whispering for a strong wind to blow it over…
 
cho_pilo said:
Ok, animals have rights but what about plant rights, why is it ok to kill and eat plants, use their corpses as building materials, confine them to pots, burn them just for heat.
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Unfortunately God has not given our bodies the ability to live on just air and non-living material.

May I ask, what do you eat?
 
Because bunnies and spotted owls are cute, and corn and carrots are not.

Though my house plant should apply for protection…it gets so crazy around here that I forget to water it on a regular basis. It survives on shear force of it’s own will, not hrough my effort.
 
Because our naturalbodies require sustenance from a living source. Our human soma cannot condense its flesh from nitrogen in the air.

If the day ever comes that science can produce food from bacteria, then we would not need to eat plants or animals. We’d still be killing the bacteria, though.

Also, we need shelter and heat, at least in the northern hemisphere, because our bodies have no fur or hibernation ability. We could build adobe pueblos or earthships, however, if human life does not harvest timber, nature will thin the forest anyhow through blights, huge fires, or both.

Plants are morally easier to use for food than animals b/c they have no brain or nerve endings to feel pain, and no eyes with which to trigger the human sense of “cuteness”.:)🙂

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Why is no one concerned about the poor, innocent bacterial lives that are lost each time a Clorox disinfecting wipe is swiped across a surface? Those poor bacteria, just minding their little one-celled lives, trying to raise their multi-millions of children…oh, sure once in a while, a human might get sick and even die…but is that any reason to murder MILLIONS of bacteria on a daily basis? Can you imagine the horror those poor bacteria suffer?:eek:
In defense of poor bacteria everywhere, I suggest we go on a “no cleaning” campaign just to save bacterial lives everywhere!
 
Catholic90 said:
Why is no one concerned about the poor, innocent bacterial lives that are lost each time a Clorox disinfecting wipe is swiped across a surface? Those poor bacteria, just minding their little one-celled lives, trying to raise their multi-millions of children…oh, sure once in a while, a human might get sick and even die…but is that any reason to murder MILLIONS of bacteria on a daily basis? Can you imagine the horror those poor bacteria suffer?:eek:
In defense of poor bacteria everywhere, I suggest we go on a “no cleaning” campaign just to save bacterial lives everywhere!
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No antibiotics either…🙂
 
Catholic90 said:
Why is no one concerned about the poor, innocent bacterial lives that are lost each time a Clorox disinfecting wipe is swiped across a surface? Those poor bacteria, just minding their little one-celled lives, trying to raise their multi-millions of children…oh, sure once in a while, a human might get sick and even die…but is that any reason to murder MILLIONS of bacteria on a daily basis? Can you imagine the horror those poor bacteria suffer?:eek:
In defense of poor bacteria everywhere, I suggest we go on a “no cleaning” campaign just to save bacterial lives everywhere!
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:eek: I shall never clean my room again!

But what about those poor trolls who are forced to move on whenever they come to our forum? Surely we should let them live on our forum and tend to their needs, we should stop the cull of the trolls and allow them to forever confuse our brains by their often abstract, predictable or aggressive questioning! 🤷

To that effect, I suggest from now on that we form a society named Rick Rolls, whose job it is to herd such trolls into a safe area in which they can be cared for. 👍
 
LDNCatholic said:
You’re right!

I’ve been torturing those poor innocent carrots in the garden. Rearing them just so I could eat them.

I’ll never touch vegetables again if you can suggest to me a proper alternative 🙂
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Personally I was thinking of becoming vegetarian because of my intense hatred of plants. Think about it, when was the last time a plant did* you* any favors just cuz they were so fond of you? They’re selfish-never going out of their way for anyone. I think you were on the right track before.
 
Alix1912 said:
Because bunnies and spotted owls are cute, and corn and carrots are not. …
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Yep. Broccoli just cannot compete with a baby harp seal on the cuteness scale.
Alix1912 said:
…Though my house plant should apply for protection…it gets so crazy around here that I forget to water it on a regular basis. It survives on shear force of it’s own will, not hrough my effort.
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I have a plant like that. I have a black thumb, so I am not sure how it has survived this long. My little guy gave it to me when he was in preschool and he is now 8 and I am amazed that the plant is still alive. I generally only remember to water it when I notice it looks wilted and pathetic, but when I have watered it, it has rebounded just fine over the years. Tough little plant.
 
This thread reminded me of these videos that I find amusing and haven’t watched for a little while. Today is a day to watch them again, I suppose. Earth day is coming soon too, so maybe I’ll just watch one today and the other one then. 🙂

Hippies Crying Over Dead Trees
youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI

Emotional Hippies - Crying Over Dead Trees parody
youtube.com/watch?v=MmQLccLYOYY
 
cho_pilo said:
Ok, animals have rights but what about plant rights, why is it ok to kill and eat plants, use their corpses as building materials, confine them to pots, burn them just for heat.
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Cho:

Animals do NOT have rights. They CANNOT reciprocate by according rights back to humans. However, they are much more like us than are plants. (In fact, I’ll bet they yelped whenever Descartes was dissecting then alive.) It is a responsibility of man to treat animals humanely. We have a moral duty to commiserate with animals since we share the somatic of pain with them. Animals have, therefore, a very close affinity to us, in that regard.

Plants do not have nervous systems. There is no moral requirement to be humane to plants. That said, Scientologists believe that all creatures are somatic. Every cell is a physical housing for a thetan. Eating plants liberates millions of thetans so that they can go out and look for another body to inhabit. Thus, we do well to eat plants. and, perhaps, we would do well to eat animals, too. Well, insects anyway. Remember, eating insects is eating whole food, which is much healthier than eating parts of things. Of course, if the things you are eating are intelligent, you might not want to eat them all at once either.

God bless,
jd :o
 
SwizzleStick said:
Yep. Broccoli just cannot compete with a baby harp seal on the cuteness scale.

I have a plant like that. I have a black thumb, so I am not sure how it has survived this long. My little guy gave it to me when he was in preschool and he is now 8 and I am amazed that the plant is still alive. I generally only remember to water it when I notice it looks wilted and pathetic, but when I have watered it, it has rebounded just fine over the years. Tough little plant.
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SS:

That’s just plain torture. :cool:

God bless ,
jd
 
JDaniel said:
SS:

That’s just plain torture. :cool:

God bless ,
jd
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I feel kinda guilty about it, especially since the poor plant regularly produces a lovely pink flower. :o

It is a shame that I only remember to water it when it is rather droopy. But, I am not a plant person, so I only occasionally remember it or even notice it–with the exception of when it blooms–until it looks a bit sad.
 
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