Many vegans I have met in my life have cited morals as the main reason not to eat animals. "Animals live, they breathe, they are alive and we have no right to kill them for food."
Ever since hearing this I had to agree that it 's true. What does give us the right to kill animals in order to eat them?
As much as I could get with that line of reasoning, a rather inconvenient idea sprang up instantly nagging: "Well, plants aren't alive then? How can you justify killing living plants for food if the protection of life is so important to you?"
And while I never felt this argument should be used in order to load up on supermarket meat produce, I do feel there is something to that line of reasoning. Especially when we consider how very alive plants actually are...
Plants - like animals - come in all different shapes and sizes. Some produce poison when they feel they are being attacked, others have manifested ingenious defense mechanisms against pests, mechanisms to live in symbiosis with their environments, strategies to overcome periods of harsh conditions.
Plants in general are masters of adaptation, eerily similar to human beings who have - in their various cultures - succeeded in making the harshest environments their home. Not all humans can or should live everywhere but you will find them at the far ends of the Earth just like plants that who have managed to reach there, and grow.
But what if we go a step further? Can plants be creative?
MIDI Sprout is something every musician or plant enthusiast ought to have checked out once in their life. It's a machine - a translation if you will - that turns a plant's electric impulses into midi data, notes in a way, becoming available and audible for the human ear. As if that wasn't mindblowing enough this opens up a whole new array of possibilities and insights into the living nature of plants in general. It allows us to listen to them in a way we never have before, to even play with them like we would with another (human) musician.
It is an attempt at impoving communication between human beings and plants and can only mark the beginning of a deeper understanding for the mysterious world of flora. While human engineers have done their best here to write code that will bring these plant impulses into audible notes it is curious to imagine the possibilities and what things like MIDI sprout will do to the plant spirit that is suddenly and directly audible by human beings who have never listened.
If you want to find out more about MIDI Sprout you can check it out on the official website
Not saying you should stop eating plants now, just that we may want to find better criteria for our diet than "it's a living being" - it doesn't seem that simple anymore. I mean just consider how difficult it would make consumption if you didn't only raise the lady but also jammed with her...
In the Indigenous culture it's all about showing respect and honoring any animal that gives it's life to sustain ours. Nothing is wasted and animals are held in high regard. This is the same for nature, plants, all living and non-living things.
In this White culture these people treat animals like garage, caging them up, abusing them it's horrific and unethical. It's very upsetting.
I believe it comes down to your values and beliefs and your societal structure. This society is backward, ignorant, filthy and disgusting. So empty of meaning and so artificial, it can be very depressing.
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The honoring of my food is where I arrived quite naturally so. The ideal would be to not only grow and raise every being I eat but also to take its life in a meaningful and respectful way - have heard stories of cows readily sacrificing themselves to their farming parents when they felt it was their time to die, offering no resistance to be killed.
For all the care and consideration that is fortunately going towards the brutal and reckless slaughter of animals, I feel plants get little to no respect, sympathy nor veneration when being eaten. They are chugged down just as unconsciously like a gallon of water. It all needs to be respected and venerated, at least for me in my own life.
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You are very thoughtful and respectful. I agree with you and thanks so much for the insight about showing respect for plants. Respect is so important, as you are demonstrating.
Thanks for sharing the story about the cows, that is so incredible and touching-a real bright spot in my day.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and love here, I appreciate it a lot.
The goal is to establish a place somewhere where plants and animals will be raised exactly like this, with respect and care.
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Plants Are Conscious Beings; that is something I believe myself 100%. It's super interesting to learn that there is
Have you ever read a book called The Magic of Findhorn(that is a link to goodreads.com)? Which describes people communicating with plants through vibrational energy. I personally think that there are many forms of consciousness, more than the human mind can envision. I think that the prevalent western view on plant and animal consciousness comes from a dogmatic religious lean that pushed our society to see other living beings as resources.
The world opens up so much when you can see the varying consciousness in the environment around you. Wilderness areas and particularly the animals and plants I encounter in them are the places I find most fulfilling. Meditation comes naturally in those places for me, and I'm sure it's because of the purity of consciousness in those places, not watered down by the noise and concrete of the city.
Great post @paradigmprospect... I am going to research MIDI Sprout further :)
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Hey thanks for stopping by and sharing your feedback. I totally agree, the vibes around plants and nature in general can be outright healing when one is only used to city environments of the matrix
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bm4MngdiY6Y
Some more research on this topic.
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I can't speak to how conscious plants may be but I find that people rarely give other living things the credit they deserve. I have seen this with dogs over the years. We were told that dogs cannot understand representations of things but my dog barks at every cartoon animal that he sees and when that cartoon animal is a dog he reacts in the way that he does when he sees a real dog.
On a very closely related topic, there is an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast that may interest you. He has a mycologist named Paul Stamets on who, among other things, makes an interesting case for why fungus might be more "conscious" than we may think.
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