alt Hacker NewsI don't know about you, but I already feel enough guilt about how we eat animals. I even feel bad about throwing away a stuffed animal. We don't need some journo shoving another knife through our collective hearts about eating vegetables.
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block_dagger • 12/08/2024
Are you saying ignorance is better than knowledge? As for the guilt about eating animals, you have a personal choice to make based on your values at every meal. Aside: I don't see how a stuffed animal is related to the suffering of real animals in factory farms; perhaps you are confusing disparate ideas there.
9dev • 12/08/2024
There’s a really simple way to rid you of the first kind of guilt, though…
I don’t think we should anthropomorphize plants to the point where we feel guilty about eating them, but I do think society as a whole is missing a kind of fundamental respect for nature and discounts the complexity and interestingness of plant life.
In a world where conserving nature is simultaneously increasingly difficult and increasingly important, I don’t mind a bit of artistic license when it comes to descriptions of plant life if it leads to more awareness and more people thinking twice about plants and how we treat natural ecosystems.
Obviously there’s a balance to be struck though.