Message #17766

[mccoy]

Sprouts are very good, although one time I had the impression to eat children. Really, they were corn sprouts and I was uneasy eating the seedlings, maybe memories of some extreme jainist former incarnation.

The vegetable food we may eat without actually killing it would be little, probably. All fruit for sure. Maple syrup. The vegetables which grow up again after being cut (cutting would be equal to pruning).

Eating nuts, seeds and sprouts would mean to kill the potential plant, like eating an embryo. Unless the plant reincarnates in the seed only when there is water in it causing germination, then the killing would apply only to sprouts.

Its still a little explored aspect, not pleasant to vegetarians, which could be killers in their own right, even as the meat eaters.

Sorry for the OT.