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From: jr@lf-server-2.bbn.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Imported woman's Fox Fur Coats
Message-ID: <300@lf-jr.BBN.COM>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 10:56:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 10:56:48 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 12:16:01 EST
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How come no one is speaking up for vegetables here?  Haven't you ever
heard one scream when it is murdered?  Just because our ears are tuned
to the frequencies used by animals doesn't mean we shouldn't be
sensitive to the turnip's feelings!  Hell, plants apparently feel
pain when bacteria are killed near them (source?  The Secret Life of
Plants).  Plants give you all your oxygen, provided they are alive.
The world would quickly become a greenhouse without them.

Clearly we should be shooting lower on the food chain.  Swear off
animals and plants - eat yeast and plankton.  Maybe those tube worms
at the Galapagos vents are onto something tasty.

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will
respond to you.  (sources upon request, but you really shouldn't need
to ask).

Seems the only life forms that seem worthy of slaughter these days are
homo sapiens.  Is cannibalism the logical successor to vegetarianism?

Burp.

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