Saturday, July 26, 2008

What about the vegetables?

Now that modern science is starting to realize that plants may have feelings too, vegetarians are finding themselves in a quandry over what they can eat. Of course all meat products are out, but if a plant can feel you murdering it, what do they eat? To help any vegefriends out there, I've made a list of food everyone can eat with a clear conscious:

  • Water and ice
  • Salt
  • Dead leaves (edible leaves can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plants_with_edible_leaves)
  • Milk (But you have to ask the cow if she minds. Since holding milk can be painful to the cow, she should be okay with this.) Most dairy products should be fine too, but not anything made with active cultures (like yogurt) or yeast, since these are technically alive too.
  • Fruit and vegetables (You have to wait for these to fall from the tree/bush. Otherwise, it's murder. Also, you should wait until it's dark to pick them off the ground, otherwise the tree/bush may realize you're going to digest their children and hurt their feelings.)
  • Eggs (As long as their unfertelized, you should be okay.)
  • Honey (Just don't hurt the bees, and be sure to leave enough for them to eat. In fact, you may want to wait until the bees go out partying for the night so they don't get their feelings hurt when you steal all their hard work.)

Okay, I hope this helps our vege-friends, and if anyone out there can think of any other suggestions, please leave them below :)

5 comments:

Alison said...

Hehe. I liked this one . . . a lot. :D

Emily Anne said...

Don't eggs have feelings since they could be baby chickens? Just wondering. I am very glad I don't care if my food has feelings. God provided for us and I'm ok with taking advantage of that.

Matthew Ware said...

No, unfertilized eggs don't have feelings. They have to be fertilized, otherwise they're just yolk and whatever that white stuff is. It can't grow into a chick.

Rhia Jean said...

Does that mean also that they are opposing things made out of wood too? What about books? Paper is made out of wood. Wow. There's a whole other spectrum of it all if plants have feelings too. Hmmm...I guess the vegetarians could eat their fingernails. Those are already dead.

Matthew Ware said...

With paper, you probably should wait until the tree dies of natural causes. Again, drag the dead tree out at night so as not to disturb the living trees. We'll have fewer books, but there's a lot of stupid books out there.

You could probably figure out how to make paper from fingernail clippings. There's got to be a way. Or gas. You could probably turn fingernails into an energy source. Fingernol.