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In reply to the discussion: Memo to PETA: Go F *** Yourselves for traumatizing children. [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)The fact that you don't empathize with plants does not mean they do not suffer nor respond to trauma.
If you're eating raw plants, they are desperately responding to being shredded and ground by your teeth. A massive number of chemical reactions and hormones are being thrown out by the plant as they try to avoid being killed by your chewing. The bits that remain alive then get to enjoy being dumped into your stomach acid and slowly dissolved.
If you're eating cooked plants, well they were still quite alive when you threw them in the oven or on the stove. Again, they desperately reacted to the massive trauma until they were killed by the heat.
Anyone who says they're a vegetarian so that their food does not suffer is someone who doesn't know much about plants.