Vegetarian Dilemma

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The subject of vegetarianism usually centers on compassion for all the Earth’s creatures. This is noble and commendable. However, it is an illusion. While we concede that an animal is considered a higher form of life than a plant, we can’t negate the fact that a plant is a life form. This is the basis for the vegetarian dilemma.

Actually

Actually plants are more complex than we think. They like all living things want to survive and react to treats. It is known they respond to their environment. Playing music and talking to plants is not an uncommon practice.

Scientifically Speaking

“Plants are not static or silly,” said Monika Hilker of the Institute of Biology at the Free University of Berlin. “They respond to tactile cues, they recognize different wavelengths of light, they listen to chemical signals, they can even talk” through chemical signals. Touch, sight, hearing, speech. “These are sensory modalities and abilities we normally think of as only being in animals,” Dr. Hilker said.

Plants can’t run away from a threat but they can stand their ground. “They are very good at avoiding getting eaten,” said Linda Walling of the University of California, Riverside. “It’s an unusual situation where insects can overcome those defenses.”

“I’m amazed at how fast some of these things happen,” said Consuelo M. De Moraes of Pennsylvania State University. Dr. De Moraes and her colleagues did labeling experiments to clock a plant’s systemic response time and found that, in less than 20 minutes from the moment the caterpillar had begun feeding on its leaves, the plant had plucked carbon from the air and forged defensive compounds from scratch.

“Even if you have quite a bit of knowledge about plants,” Dr. De Moraes said, “it’s still surprising to see how sophisticated they can be.”

Fruitarians Argument

Fruitarians are known to take the high moral ground. There argument is when fruit is ripe it falls to the ground, without our help. This is for the most part true. Ripe fruit will leave the branches when fully done. Now the real argument is this healthy for long term sustenance for the human race?

In reality the vegetarian dilemma was not a part of the dialog of early man. You ate to survive, and survived on what was around.

Morally and Ethically

Our focus is to be stewards of the planet. Before we concede more, we must realize that what goes into soda pop, cookies, pastry, and processed food is where the argument should be. Pharmaceuticals are in our lakes, and drinking water. The more scientist invent the more we change the environment.

Grazing cows, deer, goats, and bison live off the pastures. Now if we want to be morally right we can consume the animals and leave the plants alone. Ethically living is to appreciate and not plunder the land. Cattle are not to be fed garbage so they become fatter faster.

The Wrong Argument

The argument that most of these groups ponder is neither going to solve or save the resources. The argument is usually among the groups that already believe in conservation. Fruitarians will try to up vegetarians who will then go on to up the people on paleo (cave man) diets. These are considered the diets of our distant ancestors, that roamed the earth eons ago.

Since most of us were not around to confirm this information, it would make sense to say that a whole food natural diet is fine. We always aspire to do the right thing and at the same time win the argument.

We are at a crossroad and semantics will not save the environment. We can’t dismiss the fact that we may never see eye to eye. What we need is to stop arguing among ourselves and engage in going forward together and find opportunities to steer the planet in the right direction. We can’t afford to be fighting while trying to survive on a planet in peril.

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