Fruitarianism...only eating fruit, seeds and things from plants that don't hurt plants? i thought plants don't!
Answers: feel pain? if they don't feel pain, then what's wrong with eating the plant, instead of just the seeds or fruit?? vegetarians and fruitarians (i've never heard of that before doing research on vegetarians), please answer and tell me what you think about eating/injuring plants?? i'm confused!
to eat potato you need to kill potato.
to eat a carrot you need to kill a carrot.
Those (those who eat only fruits and leaves fallen from the trees due ethical reasons) are people with extremely high level of compassion. They do not value their own life higher than life of any other living being (other people, animals, bugs, plants..). It is state of consciousness, which cannot be imitated, but it is something you will naturally do, when you feel it.
They cannot stand any suffering of any other living being (and plants ARE living beings), so how they can act in different way? how can they go and kill another being for their own sustain?
We do not know if plants "feel" or not. Surely they do not feel as we do, or as animals do. Plants have their own systems. How can we understand? We cannot even understand what other human being feels.
But.
There is nothing wrong in eating anything you want. You just need to listen to your own consciousness. And to follow it. Do not ignore it. If you feel that to eat animals, who are killed for pleasure of people (to whom it is not even necessity...), is wrong then give it up.
Do not be confused by different theories. Do as you feel.
thats jainist thinking...they don't pick the mango off the tree because it will hurt it... they wait for it to fall to the ground then eat it... so if you were doing this in canada in the winter and waiting for the fruit to fall off the trees ...you would starve to death...
Yeah, that sounds confusing to me too. Pretty strange, but so is nature at times.
well plants cant feel pain. They have no central nervous system, so I dont think about injuring plants
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I have known a few vegans who cant stand the thought of ending ANY life to sustain theirs. Its odd, because, as much as some people get upset at the idea, life really does sustain itself on death. Herbivores kill the plants they eat, carnivores kill the herbivores they eat, scavengers don't care who killed who as long as there are dead bodies to eat, and the plants will eventually reabsorb the nutrients of all of the above mentioned.
Its one big circle of life, and we should not be so arrogant as to think we can be removed from it.
myspider is correct. Plus, if you ate nothing but fruit you would crap yourself to death!
Five a day is enough. Eat meat.
Anyone who believes that plants are capable of feeling pain is in desperate need of an education.
I'm not a fruitarian, but from what I understand, it's not as much about hurting the plant as it is about killing the plant outright. If you dig up the roots of a plant (e.g. carrots, turnips, beets) to eat, you've effectually ended its life since plants with taproots can't really live without them. If you take an apple or pear off a tree, or preferably take one that has already fallen naturally, the tree will not die. So basically, a fruitarian lives in such a way that no living thing has to die in order for them to eat.
While I think this is beautifully compassionate, I also think it a little impractical for most people, myself included. Frankly, I'd be concerned about getting all my nutrients. Plus, it's hard enough being vegan in a non-vegan world, I can't imagine how much harder fruitarianism would make things. But, to each their own.