The problem is not so much the worms themselves, disgusting as that is, as it is that if sanitation conditions at the plant that produced the candy allowed worms to be included, God knows what else might make it into the chocolate bars. If they're paying so little attention as to not ensure that the candy doesn't have bugs in it, it's a reasonable leap to assume they may also not be doing such a great job at preventing harmful bacteria from getting into it.
The artist formally known as macweirdo42, formally known as weirdguy (it's a long, uninteresting story).
It's against my moral beliefs to eat bugs.
And yet you have no qualms chowing down on plants. Plants have feelings, too, you know! *sigh* I just don't understand the logic of deciding that it is wrong to destroy some organisms to sustain one's life, but embracing the destruction of others for the same purpose.
The artist formally known as macweirdo42, formally known as weirdguy (it's a long, uninteresting story).
It makes sense when you don't have the mindset of "this thing is just like that thing!"
You see, a fig is not a cow. I can eat a fig and not eat a cow, and the world doesn't explode by my defying logic. Cows are not figs, therefore logic has not been defied.
Buffalo aren't cows, so logic hasn't been defiled by comparing things to cows. But when you compare living things to living things, well, ... then you're going into the realm of hopefully not consciousness, but the more expressive ability to respond to stimuli. Plants don't respond nearly as well as Cows do, so how do we know they're sentient and can feel pain or acknowledge their own pending demise by machete or teeth?
Yes, you could say plants and animals are both living things, but that falls under the flawed assertion that "this thing is just like that thing."
Now, there are some people, my beloved Jains, who do treat plants with a higher regard than most people do. They don't eat plant roots, as harvesting them means killing the plant. Because remember, you don't kill an entire tree just to harvest its fruit, right? There are plenty of plant-based foods that are harvested without destroying the entire plant.
would that not be a law suit?
If you are caught by the gorillas, you must remember one thing.
What's that?
Never to speak!
What the hell would I have to say to a gorilla?
Isn't picking fruit like plant abortion?Originally Posted by Shazza Dani
But a lot of plants actually want you to pick their fruit. Kinda disturbing, really, but the whole idea is that you eat the fruit, and then crap out the seeds somewhere else, using you as a way to transport the seeds and spread them around. When you think about it, the fact that fruits are sweet and delicious is basically an advertisement saying "Here, eat my babies!"
The artist formally known as macweirdo42, formally known as weirdguy (it's a long, uninteresting story).
No. Picking fruit is part of the plant's normal reproductive cycle. It's sorta like reaching the third trimester.
Pooping the seeds into the toilet where they can never germinate is the abortion part.
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