Yesterday, 06:09 PM
I believe in a plant based diet for moral and other reasons. However many modern vegans are not eating an ideal diet.
Plants use toxins to help defend themselves. They usually concentrate on vital parts and do not put them in parts such as fruit. The fruits are meant to be eaten in that it benefits the plant to spread the seeds. So they make the fruits good and free from plant toxins and anti-nutrients as a general rule.
However some berries are poisonous. Why? The reason is that the prefered seed transporter for those plants are small birds. So to prevent animals and humans stripping the plant, poisons are put into the berries that animals and humans cannot tolerate but the birds can. This then phelps protect the birds from starving in the winter.
Nuts are produced in large numbers. It is meant that animals and humans will eat many of them but some will be cached and otherwise moved away from the tree ie another way of spreading the trees using animals and humans.
Mushrooms are the fruiting body of an underground fungus. Eating the mushrooms does not kill the organism itself. However of course some mushrooms are poisonous so great caution is needed. More research is needed on how the spores spread in different kinds of mushrooms.
Leaves might be next on the spectrum of compassion in that they can be eaten without destroying the plant.
Other parts of plants such as the roots might lill the plant altogether and so may contain toxins.
Seeds are meant to pass through the digestic tract not eaten in themselves usually. This indicates that the plant will invest in plant toxins and anti-nutrients to discourage animals and humans from eating them. This is then a fresh way to look at seed oils. Maybe they are not ideal. It suggests to replace seed oils with olive oil or other similar alternatives.
Overall compassion rules out meat in the human diet. That is clear except in emergencies when it is more debatable. We should also apply compassion to plants also. This suggests that unnecessary things such as widespread lawn mowing, plant shaping for ornamental reasons eg topiary and bonsai trees should be avoided. With diet it indicates that a version of fruitarianism is the best although research and caution are needed.
What are your thoughts on this?
Plants use toxins to help defend themselves. They usually concentrate on vital parts and do not put them in parts such as fruit. The fruits are meant to be eaten in that it benefits the plant to spread the seeds. So they make the fruits good and free from plant toxins and anti-nutrients as a general rule.
However some berries are poisonous. Why? The reason is that the prefered seed transporter for those plants are small birds. So to prevent animals and humans stripping the plant, poisons are put into the berries that animals and humans cannot tolerate but the birds can. This then phelps protect the birds from starving in the winter.
Nuts are produced in large numbers. It is meant that animals and humans will eat many of them but some will be cached and otherwise moved away from the tree ie another way of spreading the trees using animals and humans.
Mushrooms are the fruiting body of an underground fungus. Eating the mushrooms does not kill the organism itself. However of course some mushrooms are poisonous so great caution is needed. More research is needed on how the spores spread in different kinds of mushrooms.
Leaves might be next on the spectrum of compassion in that they can be eaten without destroying the plant.
Other parts of plants such as the roots might lill the plant altogether and so may contain toxins.
Seeds are meant to pass through the digestic tract not eaten in themselves usually. This indicates that the plant will invest in plant toxins and anti-nutrients to discourage animals and humans from eating them. This is then a fresh way to look at seed oils. Maybe they are not ideal. It suggests to replace seed oils with olive oil or other similar alternatives.
Overall compassion rules out meat in the human diet. That is clear except in emergencies when it is more debatable. We should also apply compassion to plants also. This suggests that unnecessary things such as widespread lawn mowing, plant shaping for ornamental reasons eg topiary and bonsai trees should be avoided. With diet it indicates that a version of fruitarianism is the best although research and caution are needed.
What are your thoughts on this?
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