Why It’s Impossible to Actually Be a Vegetarian

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8 points·bartkappenburg··6 comments

Oh my. This article is just a bunch of rethorical fallacies and flawed arguments.

"For example, many vegetarians cite the sentience of animals as a reason to abstain from eating them. But there’s good reason to believe that plants are sentient, too. In other words, they’re acutely aware of and responsive to their surroundings, and they respond, in kind, to both pleasant and unpleasant experiences."

Whenever you read something like this in a piece about vegetarianism/veganism, run as fast as you can. Your own QI is at risk from the exposure to such bullshit.

I disagree. I don't know if you read the studies cited, but there is good reason to believe that plants are sentient as animals are. Besides the fact that they are aware and responsive to their surroundings.

They also make friends have self-awareness and can feel pain.

I think it is a mistake to just discard the entire article based on the misconception that he is making a flawed argument, specially if he is citing resources to back up his claims.

While I agree with you that this article is utter rubbish, no-one should be in doubt that we must devour other lifeforms in order to live - vegetarian or not. We're just making choices on what life we are willing to kill.

We're all monsters really.

I had the same feeling when I read the article...

By the same argument, it's impossible to avoid drinking dinosaur urine, and for that matter, meat is also vegetable.

Redefine anything enough and you can win any argument.

Especially if you redefine "win".

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