[split] "Some people eat animals, some don't."

[Jade]

Well, no one seems to care so much about the sufferings of plants even so I don't see us moving away from consuming other life forms any time soon.

Of course, I think eating plants is just as disturbing as eating animals. Fruit is the way to go.

You go on a fruit-only diet?

But then again what are the purpose of fruits in themselves toward themselves? If it is to spread their own lifeform through the seeds, eating them is still a denial of that.

But yeah, ultimately plants/animals both are growth and destruction of lifeforms for our own purposes.

Seeds travel mostly undigested through our systems and therefore the frugivore is a vehicle for the parent tree to get its spawn further away than directly under the canopy of the parent.

There are many plants that are not fruits that do not need to be destroyed/killed to be harvested/consumed. This cannot be said for any animal. Even milk and eggs require death or just absence of life to be consumed in our culture for the most part.

Speaking of frugivores, our closest genetic relatives (chimps, bonobos, apes) are considered frugivorous and less than 5% of their diet is meat. That 1% difference in the human genome must be a sequence that makes meat eating a requisite.