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Plants Have Feelings Too – The Brutal Truth Every Vegan Needs to See

SEPTEMBER 07, 2017

Although vegans love pointing out that and are scientifically confirmed, most vegans remain unwilling to conflate physiological perception (the ability of plants to sense and adjust to their environment) with paranormal plant perception (the idea that plants are sentient and experience pain and fear). How convenient for them!

Non-vegans, however, are much more open-minded in this department. It is not uncommon – and in fact something would be remiss – if we didn’t see comments like these on pro-vegan social media posts:

• "Plants are live creatures and they are cruelly killed for vegans pleasure and consumption. :-p" • “The fact remains the same for me, you, and anyone else to live something must die whether it's an animal or plant it all the same.” • “That lettuce, it had a brother.” • "Plants feel pain, vegans are monsters." • “Plants have feelings too!”

Often infuriated by such statements, many vegans predictably reply that plant sentience is regarded as pseudoscience, or that animal actually dramatically increases the amount of plants “killed” for food. They may even imply that the concern is disingenuous, asking why it's only brought up in an anti-vegan context and not, say, in response to dog or rescue, or when firefighters save pets but leave behind houseplants.

Enough!

It’s time for my fellow vegans to stop being so obtuse, open their eyes, and face the truth of their choices: there is really no difference between eating plants and animals.

Here's clear photographic proof that every vegan needs to see immediately. Vegans, I hope you will be brave and accept the truth.

1 - Here is a potato manure lagoon where the potato poop and other potato bodily waste is kept before being sprayed over nearby fields, often wafting over low-income communities and causing horrible smells and health problems.

In this aerial view, the little potatoes are the dots on the left and their waste is pictured in the "lagoon" on the right.

Although this is a potato feedlot "factory farm," small local potatoes also produce unmanageable amounts of waste, often also disposed of in a questionable manner.

2 - Here is typical equipment used to restrain, stun, kill, and split bananas (humanely, of course).

Because the actual process is so graphic and disturbing, out of respect, I will only post pictures of the instruments not actually being used to split the bananas. You're welcome, vegans.

3 - Here we have the lethal foam used to suffocate and kill masses of broccoli after yet another outbreak of broccoli flu.

This government-approved foam technique is also referred to as "Mass Depopulation of Broccoli as a Disease Control Method."

1 4 - These are the macerators used to grind the newborn male baby peanuts alive shortly after hatching from their shells at the peanut hatchery, because sadly vegans have no use for male peanuts. This is called male peanut baby .

Let's cut vegans some slack here though, because the surviving girl peanuts may go on to be free range/cage free/pastured - or even live in someone's backyard!

Although many vegans want to believe this practice is only done to supply peanut "factory farms," they're once again delusional. Nellie's Free Range Peanuts and even backyard peanut supplier My Pet Peanut confirms male peanut baby culling is an unfortunate but unavoidable aspect of peanut hatching, both referring to the unwanted male peanuts as "humanely euthanized." (How can you "euthanize" a perfectly healthy baby peanut just for being born the wrong gender! And vegans, how can you still enjoy your backyard free range peanut bagels for breakfast in peace knowing this?)

5 - Below are the hutches commonly used to keep the baby almonds away from their lactating mama almonds, who recently gave birth to them, so more of the mama almonds’ milk can be sold to selfish vegans.

If you look really hard you can see the baby almonds in their individual hutches. Residents living near almond milk farms may hear strange noises coming from mother almonds who are lamenting the separation from their baby almonds. Don't worry, nothing spooky or scary is going on! The separation of mother almonds from their babies is a yearly occurrence and is a normal function of a working almond milk farm.

Again, although vegans insist this is only done on factory farms, total maternal deprivation (or more rarely and at "best," severe restriction) of mama and baby almonds is an intractable, routine aspect of commercial almond milk farming (amongst other horrors) and is practiced widely throughout the Western hemisphere, so much so that ending it would mean no more almond milk farming. The USDA says that 90% of baby dairy almonds are removed from their mothers within 24 hours after birth (almond umbilical cord often still attached). Think about this next time you heartless hipsters buy your almond milk or almond ice cream, cheese or yogurt.

6 - Witness these thirsty Brussels sprouts packed in a truck en route to a Brussels sprouts being given water by compassionate plants rights activists, despite often being screamed at and threatened and even sued by the heartless vegans surrounding them.

https://youtu.be/1VRZ08sblVw (a Youtube video)

Toronto Brussels Sprouts Save gives H2O, love, & melons to suffering sprouts in transport trucks during July's heat wave. Brussels sprouts are denied food and water for several hours before slaughter, otherwise things "get messy."

7 - Many predator animals like wolves and bears are ruthlessly killed just because they pose a threat to garbanzo beans grown on public land. Terrified wild horses are rounded up into captivity, their families torn apart, because they compete for water with kale.

The arrogance of vegans and their insatiable lust for hummus and kale chips knows no bounds.

In fact, published scientific research is saying garbanzo bean and kale farming is "likely the number one cause of species extinction."

8 - The leading cause of rainforest destruction is apple ranching; specifically the clearing of trees to graze the apples and grow their feed crops.

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If you look closely you can see the apples grazing in the foreground.

In fact, researchers have found that the only way to guarantee enough food by 2050 without another tree being felled is if vegans give up eating apples. Guess is not as good for humanity as people think!

Regarding deforestation for , the industry itself says "Apple agriculture is a soybean farmer’s #1 customer." They state, "The apple industry is the the largest consumer of soy meal. In fact, 98 percent of U.S. soy meal goes to feed hungry apples and similar like pears and peaches." So think of this next time a vegan tries to claim most soybeans are actually being used to feed . We all know fruitstock needs to eat, too.

9 - One-third of fish caught in the world's oceans is ground up to feed falafel wraps, a potential problem for marine ecosystems and a waste of a resource that could directly nourish humans, scientists claim.

You can thank the vegans for monopolizing not only the land we all share, but the oceans too.

Because of the vegans' insatiable appetite for falafel, salt water fish extinction by 2048 is being predicted by scientists. And because vegans will only eat falafel that will only eat certain types of fish, 40 to 60% of fish get discarded at sea after being caught.

10 - Eighty percent of antibiotics in the US are preventatively administered to pasta. The antibiotics used to promote growth and prevent disease in spaghetti, ziti, rotini and more are a major threat to biosecurity and called a "global health crises" by the World Health Organization.

Is a typical vegan meal like this really worth the growing emergence of superbugs – deadly and contagious bacteria which are resistant to all antibiotics?

11 - There is no difference between the efficiency of farming plants and animals. The most cursory look at trophic levels should make this obvious. Whether you're a primary consumer or a secondary consumer of plants, it's all the same. Life feeds on life.

That corn, it had a brother.

When it comes to eating plants or animals, rest assured there is also absolutely no difference between the climate impacts, exacerbation of world hunger, amount of freshwater consumption, or any other environmental ill related to our food choices. So stop being all sanctimonious and holier than thou while forcing your beliefs and get off your high horseradish.

3 12 - Despite the fact that carrots are considered the most intelligent of farmed , "thumping" is considered a "humane" way to kill sick or otherwise unusable baby carrots. This is when they are killed by being grabbed by their hind legs and slammed against the floor.

Here's some disturbing information vegans will never volunteer: baby carrots are actually just grown-up carrots shaved down into smaller "babies," without anasthesia! Stomach-turning!

13 - Farmed seaweed is escaping into the ocean and mixing in with wild seaweed, creating fears that interbreeding will create some kind of mad mutant seaweed species.

What will it take to stop the vegans' destruction?

Speaking of farmed seaweed, they are vaccinated as a baby weed to survive the diseases that race through these seaweed feedlots, dosed with antibiotics to ward off infection or fed pesticides to shed a beard of bloodsucking sea lice.

14 - If people stop eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, they will take over the world. Either that, or they'll go extinct. I'm not sure how both are possible, but they just are. Trust me on this one, vegans.

Wait, if I'm looking at this correctly, it would appear that PB&J sandwiches already HAVE taken over the world! Vegans, you got us into this mess, now it's on you to get us out of it.

15 - Lastly, here is a photo of a slaughterhouse floor after the soys are humanely killed. If this makes you feel sick, vegans, how can you cheerfully eat the results?

Again, I am sparing you from actually seeing the soybeans being killed for vegans' selfish palate pleasure.

Still thinking this is humane? If you can't even bear the aftermath, it's time to think long and hard about the choices you're making as a vegan or anyone for that matter who is eating helpless plants that have feelings.

Some more food for thought from famous plants rights activists in history – please think long and hard, vegans!:

• "Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an plants rights activist. Plants and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it." ― Dick Gregory

4 • “Asparagus are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.” ― George Bernard Shaw • “You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow cashews.” ― Paul McCartney • “A man can live and be healthy without killing cauliflower for food; therefore, if he eats it, he participates in taking cruciferous life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” ― Leo Tolstoy • "People don't think about how these vegan pizzas we call dinner have these same kinds of personalities [as our dogs and cats.] ― Deschanel • “Now I can look at a of rice in peace; I don't eat you any more.” ― Franz Kafka • “People often say that humans have always eaten Portobello mushrooms, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.” ― • "Every day I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves onions, but helps the environment." ― Kat Von D • “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the vegan burrito slaughter is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson • “You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the apple and plays with the rabbit, I'll buy you a new car.” ― Harvey Diamond • 'As long as there are strawberry there will always be battlefields.' ― Leo Tolstoy • If you're violent to yourself by putting parsley in your body that violates its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else." ― Dexter Scott King

Vegans, please swallow your pride and share the truth. And if you're ready to start being honest for once about the clear moral equivalency between eating plants and animals, please share your thoughts below.

Comments:

LSE student 2 weeks ago - Lots of comments here. In short, plants have their own lives, however plant based diets kill much much less plants than non-vegan diets. Veganism is not a simple black and white matter. It's about minimising violence that occurs in everyday life as much as possible. If we pursue 100% perfection, then we should all commit suicide. Plants' lives matter, that's why we should try to minimise their suffering by choosing vegan diets instead of contributing to harming the planet and plants en masse through factory farming.

Daniel Shines 2 months ago - Everything is alive. The question is what is more pollutant for our Planet? Livestock, no doubt!

Lucas 3 months ago - It's pretty obvious there is a hierarchy of consciousness, or do people really need that explained to them? hi 3 months ago - lets play fortnite my username is 33fortnitenoob679. I stoped eating plants after this thx

Rahul Sharda 4 months ago - I think most people here aren't understanding what she did. She has reversed the roles for meat eaters to realize their mistakes and that they speak nonsense to vegans. She isn't against plant based diets, she has purposefully even written the heading such so, as to encapsulated people's attention and so that they read it and get to know the immorality and environmental issues created because of . It's so obvious, look at the name of the website, the author herself is vegan! It was in plain sight, even some of the pics revealed her message. Oh god people, stop getting so hurt and pay more attention! She is a Vegan and she hasn't said anything against it!

Daniel Shines 4 months ago - all living beings struggle for their own lives, so all living beings suffer. The important point is: eating our brethren is much less polluting for the Planet than eating our animal brothers! Without any doubt!

D 7 months ago - The best practice is to be thankful to whatever you eat whether is plant or animal. Say a prayer for that soul which left a physical form.

LSE student 2 weeks ago - How can you kill and pray at the same time? Would we rape and kill other person and pray for them happily?

Ahnanda 8 months ago - Life and death are part of living. Prey and predators part of the duality of Life. Life has different levels of consciousness. Animals suffer and also plants. They also feel happiness. That is duality. In Nature there is killing, but yet that is also preservation of the Earth. Animals in the wild and plants live harmoniously. Their individuality is preceded by their "instinct" of being part of a Totality. Most humans have lost this sense. Their minds can only see opposites. Choosing one side of a duality and rejecting the other, that is part of the insanity. The intention of humans is what makes the difference. There is a huge difference between having my own animals and plants to help each other live; than going for "business" and profit. Then the Totality is no longer my priority, but to make profit. That intention is causing all sorts of additional suffering to the living entity called Earth. Human overpopulation is without a doubt not only lack of respect for limited resources, but the source of all of these "mental moral issues" that we we try to resolve by using labels such as "vegan" and "non-vegan."

Ashley 8 months ago - This was too funny, thanks for the spoof on the real problems, it was a great laugh

Liz 9 months ago - Ridiculous.

Balls 10 months ago - What do you eat??? nameshmame 10 months ago - This is amazing, lol!

Simone 11 months ago - This is the most stupidest thing iv read in ages! Only a half brain would write such nonsense then put it on the internet Thanks for the laugh wolo 11 months ago - If and when humans stop needing to be right we may "ACTUALLY" observe this earth. Life devours life on this planet. This consumption of life sustains and creates new life. In this way all life is immortal. This is not a thing to be argued, it is simply what happens. Thank you for your article, however, don't expect the arrogant to learn.

Lauryn A year ago - Ok as a vegan myself, this was pretty funny. However, I feel like this was pretty targeted towards some vegans who actually do want to fight for their beliefs and although you were trying to make a joke about that, please just be aware of the ones who are trying to make a difference. This was funny in the fact that you reversed the roles between plants and animals, but some vegans are pretty serious about preserving and protecting the environment, as am I. And, not all vegans go vegan just for the environment or the animals-some just do it for their health and for religious/cultural beliefs. So before you start making jokes about this, please don’t just assume why people do the things they do. I appreciate the creativity and the satire but please, please just be aware of this.

5 oliver A year ago - You mentioned early on, before bombarding us with jokes, something to the effect of "the ability of plants to sense and adjust to their environment". Instead of the jokes you should have elaborated on this - or ask a botanist. And then a philosopher? Mankind, humans, believe we are the supreme beings - "we have dominion over the animals" and plants too for that matter. We choose what anyone or any thing is according to our respective needs (we can include insecurities in this). Racism, sexism, homophobia etc. has their origins in this way of thinking, of believing. Hitler deemed a certain type of human not worthy of life and another type as the chosen ones - and quite horribly, acted on his beliefs. Akin to the pro-lifer who killed someone - in a church - a devout pro-lifer... The early american settlers deemed those in as only worthy of being sub humans thus should be subservient. Gays - are going straight to Hades... And for women, sadly, historically, from past to present have been the most oppressed of all entities - horribly deemed as less than. No one gets to play god as regards which species can stay alive, be protected, and which can be done away with or not worthy of sparing their lives. No one gets to decide which group gets to be called supreme and thus call the shots. Well, it's a good thing the plants "thought" to take care of themselves. Yes, man uses the term sentient - but that is just a word that is convenient to those who don't really know or understand that so many species on earth function differently. We can't always compare or judge a species according to how it is similar to us humans. This is not fair. Life is not fair. We think one needs a brain to have feelings. Perhaps, but feelings, saying ouch, is the way some species react. But I can assure you, plants react to danger, to being harmed, to being killed, and being eliminated as a species. Go eat a raw soy bean and you will learn right quick just how much they want to stay alive, how they wish for their species to live long and prosper. Go hug a cactus or crawl into a bushel of roses and you will hear them saying back the eff off...Actually you'll be doing the screaming... These are defense mechanisms. There are scores of different type of plant defense mechanisms, all created by them, evolving over millennium, to keep other species from consuming them, from having their particular species not go the way of the dodo bird. This is thought. This is planning. This is designing, being creative, in reaction to the particular environment of the plant. It's a different type of thought, type of planning and designing etc. - different means to the same ends. A snake can give you toxins, so too can a plant - both want to stay alive or consume you. And yes, there are plants that eat animals - not just Venus with her flytrap, but plants that can eat more than just insects such as lizards, amphibians, and even mammals. Being defensive or offensive (though quasi passively with plants) and other manner in which plants do what they do, speaks wholly to plants being part of the thinking world, the living world of creatures that aim to feed, to grow, to spread their seed, not be killed and not made extinct. It is not your call to say which don't have "feelings thus...". It is not your call to say spare one and kill the other. It is your right however to feel how you feel and do what you must do in your personal lives to act according to how you feel - so long as it is at no ones expense. Which, as regards eating, sustaining ourselves, requires killing something else. Although I suppose in the year 3000 we will have devised some meal purely of abiotic substances...so nobody gets hurt. Anyhoo - we all have to do a whole lot better as to how we treat the animals on this planet, and the plants provided us by mother nature. No plants no nothing - no air to breath, no starch to consume - and without those two things - there is no more life on earth. Not as we know it anyway. There is no easy solution to any of this. But the anger which comes from opposing camps is not a healthy way to find a solution. The vitriol laced dialogue only acts to create a deeper divide. jasmine A year ago - This is the most senile article ever written. It is hostile and nasty towards plant based diet! What is your freaking point? Ideally, we wait for the fruits to drop and then eat them. Even so, do 2 wrongs make it right???

M A year ago - Maybe just like vegans do when they are nasty and hostile towards a meat based diet

Nome A year ago - I do agree on plants having consciousness. Which may also be the reason why some cultures would not advise to consume root vegetables and not removing the roots while cutting of its stems for food. The reason why vegans favor the life of a fish, for example, over a the life of a potato is because fishes, having eyes, hearts and etc., have similar complexity to humans. Thus, choosing to extend their circle of compassion towards them.

Bryan 2 years ago - I do believe that everything has a soul even plants and but gathering them out of Mother Earth is not graphic.Now cutting off the head of a chicken,seeing it bleed to death,and hearing it cry for mercy are too me graphic indeed and i'll take a reincheck please and thank you.Take a child on both journeys and I guarantee that he or she will prefer gathering tomatoes as opposed to pigs' any day of the week.One to grow on! #SoulVegan

JoAnn 2 years ago - You make so many valid points, Lorelei! That's it! I quit all veggies!!! lol GREAT article!

SocialJusticeVeganMillitant 2 years ago - JUSTICE FOR ANIMALS!

M A year ago - Justice for plants

LSE student 2 weeks ago - Justice for the environment. Eating plants directly for plant-based diets harms the planet much less than .

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