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People need to accept Cookie Monster and become chocotarians. Sesame Street is the truth; other educational TV programs are wrong.
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Interesting. Similar thoughts were coursing through my mind last evening during these comments.
Why are cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys, rabbits and other animals that we eat considered protected by some when plants that are no less alive don't seem to have any defenders?
PETA doesn't care. Vegans definitely do not care. Rabbits don't care.
Too philosophical for this thread, but interesting none-the-less.
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Some plants have defenders within Hinduism. The Tulsi plant, for instance, is deeply revered and cared for by Vaishnavas or followers of Vishnu.
@Dan From Smithville, I should have mentioned in my previous post that adherents of the Jain religion are taught not to consume root vegetables. This is because their view that killing a plant in order to eat it is violent.
Thanks for the new information. I hadn't thought of spiritual significance or the practical application of it towards plants.
Is the defense to the point that the plants aren't harvested and used or is it more of reverence and care?
I don't know very much about it, really. All I know (so far) is that many Vaishnavas revere her (the plant).
So, there is some defense of plants against herbivory among people.
Now you know. Not too many people know about this because the Jain religion is mostly confined to India.
It might be worth a thread. I'm not sure. I have a mixed record for maintenance of threads I create and don't want to just make another that trickles off with few if any fundamental points addressed.
I don't want to belabor it here either, but still and interesting idea.
I am only familiar with the awareness that it exists and nothing really beyond that.
That, sadly, is a condition personally applicable for a lot of things.
So much to know. So little time.
That is the same situation that I am in with respect to passels and passels of things.
I often try to comfort myself that much is trivial and there is no value for knowing and no harm for not knowing.
Then I remind myself that it is often some trivial thing that is a key element if only I had known or had the knowledge to recognize it.
And I'm right back to my previous position lamenting knowledge and time to learn it.
Back in the day, only the most powerful warriors could take on a plant and win. Plants weren't always these nice green things that grow out of the ground. They were once an evil that had to be tamed.
I am Groot!Back in the day, only the most powerful warriors could take on a plant and win. Plants weren't always these nice green things that grow out of the ground. They were once an evil that had to be tamed.
I've found an introductory article on Wikipedia linked to a further article on the plant's important in Hinduism.
Ocimum tenuiflorum - Wikipedia
Both are very interesting.
More of 'the more you know'.