|  pinkfloyd85 | Jan 3, 2007 10:47am | | I find this a bit extreme, but I think I understand the motives behind this. Do you know any "active" fruitarians? Is it possible to live like that?(I asked myself such questions often prior to going veggie ;) I stopped eating meat because I didn't want to harm any more living creatures (and because I realised it was adisgusting thing to do)... but what about plants? They're also 'alive'... Have you got any thoughts on this? |
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|  perrin124 | Jan 3, 2007 12:11pm | | I've never (knowingly) met one in my life. I wonder if they get the same stupid "So what do you eat?" questions that people seem to delight in asking veggies. Plants live but don't seem to have what I'd call a nervous system or consciousness. At least that's what I tell myself when lawnmowing... |
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| | pinkfloyd85 | Jan 6, 2007 4:28pm | | Well they are said to posess their own auras, so their consciousness' might be a bit more subtle than those of the animals. Probably they do get these sort of questions even from veggies or vegans ;] It IS a bit extreme... |
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| | perrin124 | Jan 7, 2007 12:34am | There's a useful article here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarian [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarian]
Unfortunately it sounds like as with any belief system there is room for controversy, schisms and fighting. The 'fruitarians who eat dairy' idea reminds me of the 'vegetarians who eat fish' who confuse catering staff and make it so difficult for proper veggies in the "What's the vegetarian dish of the day?" situation. |
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| | pinkfloyd85 | Jan 12, 2007 9:43am | | Yeah, I get that very often. I have a friend who claims to be vegetarian, but eats fish anyway. I do not know why people do not consider things taht live in the sea as animals(?)! Whenever I tell'em I'm a veggie, sometime later there is a point in our conversation where they ask: "What? Fish as well???" Geeze that can be so frustrating at times... :P |
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| | crackmyfinger | Jan 14, 2007 2:18am | | Well for me it is not living things because technically everything is living the particles the bacteria every single thing in this world is it's how the world goes round, but if it does not have a nervous system or backbone and can not feel pain or express emotion not like reaction but emotion then its okay because like i said pretty much everything in the world is living what makes it wrong is when a living thing can litery feel and show emotion of that and only mammals can do that so far science has proven (humans and animals) |
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| | perrin124 | Jan 14, 2007 9:27am | 7. Living things include animals, plants, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria.
Animals include both vertebrates and invertebrates.
Vertebrates include mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
Mammals are species whose females have mammary glands which can produce milk.
Vegetarians don't eat animals but plants, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria are fair game. |
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| | crackmyfinger | Jan 14, 2007 1:43pm | | Yep |
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| | elmiralady | May 14, 2007 11:47am | | Have you hear about the book called "The Secret Life Of Plants"? Written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird? I haven't read it yet, but it is suppose to outline the fact that plants have feelings too! |
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