[lbo-talk] Become a vegetarian or rot in hell!!! ;-)

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Nov 3 13:56:18 PST 2006


Miles wrote:


> --And every act that animals carry out that you can point to to show that
> they "suffer" can be applied to many nonanimal
> species too. For instance, plants can move away for cold and dark;
> paramecium try to escape a unicellular organism trying to eat it. There
> is no compelling evidence that supports the claim "we know animals suffer
> and plants do not."

This is incredibly silly. There are not only similarities of response, but also similarities of apparent cause; Ravi's already alluded to the neurological evidence.

-- Luke



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