I found a potato yesterday?

Question

It was hiding right at the back of my cupboard. When I retrieved it I found that it had started to sprout. This vegetable was clearly a living thing, and although it did not outwardly display any signs of anxiety at being caught, what is to say that this living being was not quaking in his little boots. Would I be morally right or wrong to skin this little fella, chop him up and serve him up for dinner. It is obviously a living creature.
Are vegetarians actually worse than omnivores when it comes to cruelty to living things? After all they kill, skin and slice up all that they eat thus committing acts of cruelty directly to their food. At least when an omnivore buys a piece of meat it is already dead.
Incidently the potato is currently enjoying a stay of execution on my window sill pending a decision

Freddy Kruger, You accuse me personally of killing and skinning animals every day. Let me assure you I do not. I have never killed an animal (altho a cat came pretty close to my front tyres this morning) or skinned one.( I did gut a few squid a while back but its hardly every day)
I might do an Ashley and report you

Answer 1

Vegetable Violence is out of control. It was gross of you to even bring up such a disgusting subject.

Answer 2

The potato is safe to eat. Make sure there is no green areas on it. If there are just peel them until you get to the white. Yes it is living and can be planted and produces a very pretty plant. Keeping potatoes on a window still is not advisable as they need dark and cool places for storage...never in the refrigerator.

Answer 3

This little potato is obviously displaying a desire to reproduce.
I think you should take her out into the garden and plant her - just think of all the lovely little baby potatoes you might get.

In answer to the second part of your question, being a vegetarian does not make a person worse, or better, to anyone else.

Answer 4

Well someone skipped their biology class... quite often. Plants dont have nervs, genius. I enjoyed your story about a hiding potato though. But the fear you describe can actually be seen in animals, in real life, not just funny stories like this one. They really do bleed. And they really do anything to survive.

But of course you dont know this, you dont hunt, and you're not a farmer, you get your animal when its already been murdered, skinned and cooked. Im sure you tell yourself another of those funny stories when you eat a burger. I bet it keeps your soul at rest. But then again, here you are in V&V section. Hmm, what is your subconscious trying to tell you?

Answer 5

meat eaters cause the deaths of more plants than vegetarians - what do you think the animals eat? cows have 4 stomachs, thus eat a LOT of plants, people have 1 stomach, and eat only a quarter of what cows eat, so, after you have caused the deaths of all those plants, you then proceed to kill the animal too - so, whether for the plants or the animals (or both) vegetarian diets cause fewer deaths

Answer 6

Do not kill.Now it's got so far, plant it and let it make baby potatoes.You don't need a gargen. A bucket of soil or compost will do.
(Also if youv'e had it on the window sill it will start to go green. You have to store potatoes in the dark and green potatoes can be v. bad for you)

Answer 7

Some people believe that picking fruit and veg directly from the earth or from a living plant is wrong. They only eat food that has already fallen off the plant, so to speak.

http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian/what.html

If the fruit is already dead, presumably they have would have no qualms about skinning and slicing it.

As for your problem, I would agree with the others: plant it and eat its children.

Answer 8

I am currently holding, up a government building up causing mass disruption to bring attention of the world to your potato plight. How do you sleep at night, with such terrible crimes to potato's going on all the time and guess what it's world wide epidemic.

I am lighting a candle for your potato have you named it yet? Just for the song and potato AID

Answer 9

hum.. depending on where you live... it may not be too late to make a few more potatoes...

leave the eyes on it.. chop it into 3 sections and put it in some very rich soil...

you may get indian summer potatoes.. make sure you have them in a large pot.. or if where you live is warm all the time.. in the soil....

if not have it near the house... (get some soil from the local mom and pop or whatever you have... ) very vitamin rich soil and see what happens...

Answer 10

If you and that potato have connected in some way, save it and let it grow as a bonsai, they make really nice ones, however if you are terribly hungry, take that potato and skin it and fry it or boil it, don't go hungry!

Answer 11

I'll answer your question with another question, Whats the corkage fee at Mc Donalds?

I suggest you plant it, then take the kids and get some one else to do the dirty work. Let them fry!