I suddenly recalled from weeks back, one of my colleague told me, "vegetarian diet is the healthiest diet of all". Well, I didn't see him being a vegetarian himself. Why is that? I don't know, I didn't bother to ask him as well. In fact, most people think that vegetarian is the healthiest diet of all. Honestly, I don't blame them for what they think. And today, I'm going to continue to write about the actual happenings and facts revolving vegetarian.
Agriculture, has wiped out everything in its path, including the humans. None of us can live without grasslands and rivers, oceans and forests. Money, especially money accumulated into wealth, may buffer us for a while. We are out of topsoil, out of water, out of species, and out of space in the atmosphere for the carbon we can't seem to stop burning.
What grows where you live? Means what can grow, what should grow, who should grow it? And for all of us, it means who is destroying the place you live? Corrupt or even totalitarian governments? A political dictator? A sociopathic economic system that turns corporate boards into legal persons with no responsibility to anything except shareholder profits?
Over one hundred countries depend on grain from Canada to USA, and that grains constitutes 60 percent of all exports. Listen guys, 60 freakin percent! And guess what? The food pyramid guide recommend all of us to eat 6-10 servings of grains daily? Is that a coincidence? Does any of u know which food industry plays a big role for the food pyramid chart?
Now, in this post, I would like to enlighten all of you, about plants, and what they can do, to 'protect' themselves from predators. For some readers, you may have already known what I'm about to reveal soon about plants, but for whoever think that plants are 'lifeless' and it is alright to eat them without commiting religious sin, please keep reading.
Plants, breathe in CO2, and during photosynthesis, they break apart the carbon and the oxygen, keeping the carbon to build and fuel their bodies and releasing the oxygen. Plants defend themselves and they protect each other. They communicate. They call out to other plant species, asking them to join in forming a resilient community. They respond, they talk, They have meaning and they make meaning. They are capable of courage and self awareness. Very hard to believe? Do your own research! Plants can't scream when you ripped them apart during farming, doesn't mean that it is lifeless. Keep reading folks. I'm not done revealing about plants yet.
Where we use locomotion. plants use chemicals. Thats the difference between humans and plants, and they produce hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of complex secondary compounds. Through complex feedback loops, plants constantly sense what is happening in the world around them, and in response, vary the numbers, combinations and amounts of the phytochemicals they make.
These chemicals are used for fighting off insects, fungi or bacteria. Bear in mind, plants cannot flee from predators, so they became experts in 'chemical warfare' instead. Each of the world's seven hundred plus species of figs, has its own specific fig wasp, wasps who hand pollinate that fig's seeds. And its not just insects who respond to these chemicals cues, most of these chemicals have no scent but are instead received by receptors called VNOs, which all vetebrates have. The only functions of VNOs is to attach to the minutes amounts of aromatic chemicals that plants and animals give off and transport them to the brain. VNOs are how bees are able to locate and then remember the exact location of all the flowering plants within approximately 60 miles radius!
Plants are in constant communication with each other. Each plant, plant neighbourhood, plant community, and ecosystem, has message flowing through it constantly, trillions and trillions of messages at the same time. Any place that roots touch other roots, or their shared mycelial network, they can also exchange chemistries and medicines. One plant will send out a chemical distress call, the others respond with precise antibiotics, antifungals, antimicrobials or even pesticides to help. Plant, will give out an alarm call when predator is near. For instance, lima beans will release chemicals that warn other lima beans that they are being attacked by spider mites. When something brushes part a plant in the woods, not only does the affected plant respond by stiffening as best it can, it also sends out a chemical warning that allows all the plants nearby to stiffen their branches in preparation.
Plants always produce more chemistries then they need for their own health. These chemicals are released into plant communities and ecosystems to maintain them. They literally control life on earth. Bear in mind, plants can grow thousands of years.
The question is, at what point are you, vegetarian or carnivore, willing to acknowledge that plants are sentient? When you find out that a tree will die on its own, but will survive many years if surrounded by its chosen community. Do you know that other plants will send an injured one carbon, phosphorus, sugar and more? How is this different from a whale carrying their sick loved ones to the surface? Why don't we want to include plants in the same circle with us?
Most trees produce terpenes that kill the budworms, but a few tress don't. These tress are not sick or defective. I can go on and on with all these facts about plants, but the thing is, vegetarian ethic is still ultimately a variation on the mechanistic model. These plants, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, it doesn't matter, they make life, and they are life. But the vegetarian ethic declares them, and thus the world entire, DEAD matter.
What grows where you live? Means what can grow, what should grow, who should grow it? And for all of us, it means who is destroying the place you live? Corrupt or even totalitarian governments? A political dictator? A sociopathic economic system that turns corporate boards into legal persons with no responsibility to anything except shareholder profits?
Over one hundred countries depend on grain from Canada to USA, and that grains constitutes 60 percent of all exports. Listen guys, 60 freakin percent! And guess what? The food pyramid guide recommend all of us to eat 6-10 servings of grains daily? Is that a coincidence? Does any of u know which food industry plays a big role for the food pyramid chart?
Now, in this post, I would like to enlighten all of you, about plants, and what they can do, to 'protect' themselves from predators. For some readers, you may have already known what I'm about to reveal soon about plants, but for whoever think that plants are 'lifeless' and it is alright to eat them without commiting religious sin, please keep reading.
Plants, breathe in CO2, and during photosynthesis, they break apart the carbon and the oxygen, keeping the carbon to build and fuel their bodies and releasing the oxygen. Plants defend themselves and they protect each other. They communicate. They call out to other plant species, asking them to join in forming a resilient community. They respond, they talk, They have meaning and they make meaning. They are capable of courage and self awareness. Very hard to believe? Do your own research! Plants can't scream when you ripped them apart during farming, doesn't mean that it is lifeless. Keep reading folks. I'm not done revealing about plants yet.
Where we use locomotion. plants use chemicals. Thats the difference between humans and plants, and they produce hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of complex secondary compounds. Through complex feedback loops, plants constantly sense what is happening in the world around them, and in response, vary the numbers, combinations and amounts of the phytochemicals they make.
These chemicals are used for fighting off insects, fungi or bacteria. Bear in mind, plants cannot flee from predators, so they became experts in 'chemical warfare' instead. Each of the world's seven hundred plus species of figs, has its own specific fig wasp, wasps who hand pollinate that fig's seeds. And its not just insects who respond to these chemicals cues, most of these chemicals have no scent but are instead received by receptors called VNOs, which all vetebrates have. The only functions of VNOs is to attach to the minutes amounts of aromatic chemicals that plants and animals give off and transport them to the brain. VNOs are how bees are able to locate and then remember the exact location of all the flowering plants within approximately 60 miles radius!
Plants are in constant communication with each other. Each plant, plant neighbourhood, plant community, and ecosystem, has message flowing through it constantly, trillions and trillions of messages at the same time. Any place that roots touch other roots, or their shared mycelial network, they can also exchange chemistries and medicines. One plant will send out a chemical distress call, the others respond with precise antibiotics, antifungals, antimicrobials or even pesticides to help. Plant, will give out an alarm call when predator is near. For instance, lima beans will release chemicals that warn other lima beans that they are being attacked by spider mites. When something brushes part a plant in the woods, not only does the affected plant respond by stiffening as best it can, it also sends out a chemical warning that allows all the plants nearby to stiffen their branches in preparation.
Plants always produce more chemistries then they need for their own health. These chemicals are released into plant communities and ecosystems to maintain them. They literally control life on earth. Bear in mind, plants can grow thousands of years.
The question is, at what point are you, vegetarian or carnivore, willing to acknowledge that plants are sentient? When you find out that a tree will die on its own, but will survive many years if surrounded by its chosen community. Do you know that other plants will send an injured one carbon, phosphorus, sugar and more? How is this different from a whale carrying their sick loved ones to the surface? Why don't we want to include plants in the same circle with us?
Most trees produce terpenes that kill the budworms, but a few tress don't. These tress are not sick or defective. I can go on and on with all these facts about plants, but the thing is, vegetarian ethic is still ultimately a variation on the mechanistic model. These plants, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, it doesn't matter, they make life, and they are life. But the vegetarian ethic declares them, and thus the world entire, DEAD matter.
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