Can I have this thread moved to #Serious?

I'm not PETA.

Are you a loli as well?

More relevant.

Meat.

Well, you know, you can't really win on either front. Eating an animal and eating a plant are the same damn thing. Plants and animals are both living things, both of which have some aspect of feelings and intelligence.

Take your pick, eat what you choose, and be thankful that whatever it is you're eating is giving your body the neccessary energy to survive via the taking of said organisms life.

I never really got the whole high and mighty vegans thing to begin with. Just people being silly is all.

This raises a very good question... what would happen if plants became intelligent and struck back at us for raising them to be eaten?

This raises a very good question... what would happen if plants became intelligent and struck back at us for raising them to be eaten?

Remember that movie by M Night. shama lama ding dong? The Happening? Probably something like that. Plants actually do communicate amongst each other, and some even have actual defenses like this.

There was a case in africa some time ago, where some kind of herd based animal started dying off in droves, and nobody figured things out until much later. The animals were high in number and eating too many of the plants in the area, removing more leaves than the plants could survive without. The plants began to send out spores when their leaves were rustled that stuck to animals and traveled in the wind.

When the other trees picked this up, they began to produce toxins in their leaves, and when the herd animals ate too much of the leaves, the poison buildup killed them.

Research in the last few years has also shown that plants have an actual, physical memory for things. Sounds, touch, events, and so on.

Well shit.