Going with these truths:
All life forms are equal.
We are given free will and allowed to make our own choices.
Being that vegetables are a life form; therefore, would have free will. Is it possible that as we make our choice to eat healthy, that the vegetable we need agrees to become part of our diet?
2007-02-11 06:47:26 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-02-11 06:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Animals and fruits (and some vegetables) have a symbiotic relationship.
Edible fruits are designed to be eaten, it is part of the way a plant spreads its seeds and succeeds.
The variety of fruits is to attract specific animals.
Humans cultivate fruits which to a plant is a form of success. No one species is designed to be overly predominant, though. Over planting of only one type of vegetable depletes the soil and makes way for diseases that wipe out entire fields.
The Irish potato famine is the most well known even like this. Only one type of potato was being grown so when one plant got sick, they all got sick and none of them survived.
Nowadays many farmers use varieties of the same fruit or vegetable so that if one type of plant gets sick, the rest of the crop is fine.
Who knows what will happen with all these new lab grown plants though. They are unable to reproduce on their own and must be created artificially.
Do the plants realize that they are no longer succeeding? Will there be a rebellion of some sort?!
2007-02-11 07:00:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That makes no sense. Vegetables are a life source, but they are not at our level. If i follow what your saying, if i eat a steak, it mean the cow "agrees" to be slaughtered and chopped up into pieces so that i can throw a steak on the grill. I doubt the plant would want to end its own life just to sustain yours. The lettuce and soy beans don't really care for your life. In their "eyes" your a predator. Thats why i never understood Vegans. If your a vegan because you think its better for health thats bs because fish and chicken are very healthy. If your doing it because you don't want to eat living things, thats also bs, becuase plants are also living things. But your kinda wrong on the ALL LIFE FORMS ARE EQUAL, you can only take that so far. The life of a person is more valuable then the life of fly. But it would depend, i think a life of a fly is more valuable then the life of child molesters, so.
2007-02-11 07:01:06 · answer #3 · answered by HOVO 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a darwinian world of thought, the vegetables neither choose us nor we choose them. Organisms choose each other by a form of natural selection. If suddenly you realize that apples (no matter how much you may like them) causes severe body aches, then people stop eating apples, stop growing apples and there is no use for the "apple". The apple will cease to exist. On a similar note, if humans find themselves incapable of survival or unworthy of life, we will evolve to a different being and we will cease to exist as our offspring take over.
2007-02-11 07:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by thamizhan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it is a cucumber, absoultely. Cucumers are technically fruits and all fruits are part of various plants' evolutionary strategies. In the wild, all the seeds that survive the ingestition process are deposited in a big clump of fertilizer. So if the vegetable you are talking about has seeds, then what you are saying is technically correct. The only thing is that plants do not have will but they have evolved with specific reproductive strategies.
2007-02-11 06:57:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First, not all life forms were given free will, only humans. Animals go on instinct, not by choosing their actions.
Second, if vegetables could choose I doubt they would want to be killed and eaten. I really don't think they chose us. On the other hand, if they can think and feel, maybe that's why so many people choose junk food over vegetables.
2007-02-11 06:55:11 · answer #6 · answered by Virginia S 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Interesting...welcome back...
ok, if vegetables had a conscious mind and free will, their 'thinking' and their choices would be different. Their experience of 'self' and the context of their existence, would seem alien. They could not choose to buy a pen and paper, nor could they choose to write a poem about itself. However, I do believe it will 'gain' something by becoming a part of you, so maybe it chooses to the extent it is able.
2007-02-11 06:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
Plants do everything in their power to either exploit the fact that they are going to be eaten weather they want to be or not or go out of their way to be unpalatable, even poisonous.
Besides at the very least you need a brain stem not a plant stem to make a choice.
2007-02-18 05:39:20 · answer #8 · answered by darkeststar 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please explain how it's a truth that any living creature has a free-will. Until you can establish that, your question is meaningless. I can just as easily say that my "truth" is that all life forms are not equal, my "truth" is that only chipmunks have free will, so therefore all humans must buy Chipmunks Christmas and other music. That's my "truth"--ridiculous, in't it? So how do you establish your "truths"?
2007-02-11 06:59:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You said "we are given free will" you did not say "all life forms are given free will". So no.
2007-02-11 07:02:46 · answer #10 · answered by murnip 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well friend if you feel like a vegetable then maybe you are one.
and i would not tell anyone of this as they will put you in the funnie house with the rest of the vegies.......
2007-02-11 06:51:52 · answer #11 · answered by red 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋