Sneaky meat rice!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

But in this one, I want to question why we refer to more familar, more anthropomorphic life as "higher" forms of life.

I'm not as spiritual as you are, not by a long shot. But I've heard of experiments with trees that seemed to prove that they were even sentient. One experiment involved a man chopping down a tree in the forest. The trees in the area were fixed with equipment that measured...something. I cannot remember the word. Dude, maybe it was electrodes. My goodness, this paragraph is making me feel stupid. Sorry. Anyway, they were taking some sort of reading from the trees. When the guy returned with the axe, the trees went wonky, crazy, the readins were all over the place. The trees seemed to be aware that the man with the axe had returned, and they might be next...

I do think that all life responds to nurturing and that plants are alive. I realize that human beings must take life in order to survive, so many living things on this planet are natural born sacrifices to their human counterparts. Blah-blah-and so on.

I don't want to snuggle up with a head of brocolli, though. My not eating meat has everything to do with how heartbroken I get when Wilbur and Fern are separated. I wouldn't feel that way if her father had taken away her pet asparagus. Heh.