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Re:Researchers successfully potty-train cows by __MatrixMan__ on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:41PM (#28519964)
The example that I had in mind with the original comment was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Lifecycle

I'll grant that no plants come to mind that have a niche that requires them to be wholly eaten, but I still think that deciding whether to eat a plant requires totally different logic than deciding whether to eat an animal.

So what's your position? Are you here to suggest that "we shouldn't eat animals" is absurd by equating it to "we shouldn't eat plants?"

Or are you a vegan looking to take it a step further by not eating plants that have to die in order for you to eat them? Because I'd like to hear more about somebody who sincerely held that belief.

Re:Researchers successfully potty-train cows by soperj on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:35PM (#28529889)
You mean Fruitarians? They certainly exist. I do enjoy how you seem to think that it's inconceivable. HN Favourite Steve Jobs was once a Fruitarian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism

I just don't understand how you can have a moral outrage to killing one thing but not another. People seem to do a little dance about plants being not as alive as animals to justify it, but it doesn't make sense to me.