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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by wu-ikkyu on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:00PM (#17527172)
>not harming sentient creatures

Plants are sentient creatures

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by shadunkle on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:17PM (#17527918)
Our current scientific understanding in no way leads to such a conclusion.

However, even considering the hypothetical that plants are sentient, eating plants actually causes the least harm seeing as livestock are not very efficient converters of plants to meat.

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by wu-ikkyu on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:46PM (#17528686)
>Our current scientific understanding in no way leads to such a conclusion.

False:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology...

https://asknature.org/strategy/leaves-signal-presence-of-pre...

>eating plants actually causes the least harm seeing as livestock are not very efficient converters of plants to meat.

Let's continue this facile logic to it's conclusion: if animals are causing so much "harm", why shouldn't we kill them to prevent them from "harming" so much?

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