A question for the fruitarians?!
A question for the fruitarians?
I understand that the idea behind being a fruitarian is that plants are capable of feeling pain and are living creatures that should be respected.
Assuming plant so have feelings and can feel pain (something I personally doubt) isn’t what you are doing worse. Although you are not killing the plant you are tearing a part of it off of the plant.
Wouldn’t this be the same as severing a leg from an animal, but keeping the animal alive. This was actually a common practice before refrigeration to eat part of the animal and then kill it a few days later. Even the most heartless omnivore no longer engages in that practice today.
By the same token, if plants have feelings isn’t it better to kill it all at once instead of have it suffer as you rip parts of it from the plant.
(Yeah, I know trolls will answer abound, but hopefully I can get one or two real answers also) Additional Details
2 days ago
Redshirt - thanks, I did not realize that they waited for the fruit to fall off the plant. I guess that would be a lot like eating meat, but only if the animal died of natural causes.
Answers: 2 days ago
Redshirt - thanks, I did not realize that they waited for the fruit to fall off the plant. I guess that would be a lot like eating meat, but only if the animal died of natural causes. This vaguely sounds like a real question, so I'll humor you. Many fruitarians do not eat the product until it has already fallen from the plant. Simple as that. Some do eat plucked fruit, but I don't understand the logic in this. It's like being fruitarian-lite. A plant is not a creature. A creature is an animal. Taking fruit from a plant is not harming a plant...the fruit would just rot on the plant if not picked. It's often better to pick so the plant can produce more fruit.
We all know that plants cannot feel pain anyway. My Dad always said (when I was 14 and a vegetarian) "how do you know plants don't hurt when you harvest them? What if they feel pain just like animals?" Of course he always said it with a smile but it made me think "why should people think they know it all? is not all put here for mans pleasure?"
That is why we eat cows (ect.) they are here to be eaten, as plants are. There's me with the troll thing again. Boy, you're soft.
I don't believe the plants "feel" pain so it's not an issue really.
Fruitarians must gather all of their own fruit themselves then to be sure it's already fallen from the tree/plant. That would be rather difficult don't you think?
Redshirt----from reading your posts, I have no doubt you are an expert on fruits.