The pro-meat, anti-tomato lobby
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Ethical vegetarians are often asked, “Do plants feel pain?” As has been noted before, since most plant food is fed to livestock, the No 1 destroyer of plants is the meat industry.
But putting that argument aside, if plants deserve the same moral consideration as animals, why are there no organisations called People for the Ethical Treatment of Tomatoes or Save the Carrots?
One time at an animal rights demonstration I saw a woman holding a sign reading, “Animals are people too.” Could you imagine someone at an anti-animal rights demonstration with a sign reading, “Potatoes are people too”?
If this is the best argument meat-eaters can come up with, then maybe they should consider the possibility that their position is not easy to defend.
Eric Bahrt
