Serious question for vegetarians.

Question

If there was an announcement tomorrow that scientists had discovered that plants are self aware and feel pain what would you do?

Answer 1

organically medicate myself

Answer 2

I'd wonder what antivegetarian organization had paid for that study.

Answer 3

I would still eat plants.  Number one, I have to eat.  Nature designed me that way; if I could photosynthesize, I would, but I can't so I have to eat.  Number two, eating plants directly results in the destruction of fewer plants than feeding plants to animals and then eating animals.  Number three, eating a plant-based diet is far more environmentally sustainable and is healthier.  It would still be the least impactful diet I could choose.

Answer 4

This is stupid. Animals are self aware and meat eaters don't give a second thought about eating them!

Answer 5

This is a hypothetical question, and it's based on a false premise. Plants don't feel pain so how can it be told otherwise? There can't be a future revelation about plants feeling pain because they just...don't.

Besides, what else would there be to eat? Rocks?

Answer 6

i know that there wouldn't be such an announcement, so I don't have to worry about it...wait, I'm not a vegetarian (yet).

Answer 7

I guess I'd die, thank the lord for meat..but plants are self aware..aren't they...

Answer 8

I would start to wonder if the world is really round.

Answer 9

lulz.

This reminds me of the happening.

the plants are alive and killing us.

hahaa

Answer 10

As it turns out, even if a person's primary goal in life is to minimize the number of plants which are killed, he or she should still become a vegetarian.

This is because plants have to be fed to the livestock, and meat production is extremely inefficient.  Only a small fraction of the food that is eaten by animals is converted into meat for human consumption. So, by eating meat, not only do we cause animal death and suffering.... we also end up killing many more plants than we would if we ate a vegetarian diet.

Answer 11

i'd would definitely still eat planets. you see the reason why i don't eat meat is because it isn't just killed for us to eat. it is tortured and treated horrible its whole life. like a lot of people say eating meat is a natural circle of life. but is it natural for all animals to be abused and murdered for us to eat? people don't kill animals for us to eat them. they kill them to make money. all animals are to people is a prophet. so to answer your question yes i would still eat vegetables. because they aren't abused and locked up like animals are.

Answer 12

Id probably starve.

Answer 13

i would wonder if anything it true

Answer 14

i would only eat plants that have already fallen off the tree

that's right, i don't believe that any living thing that CAN feel pain SHOULD feel pain

Answer 15

They would probably feel very foolish and then cry themselves to sleep

Answer 16

i'd stop eating plants. if they are self aware and feel pain theyre life is just as important as mine, and who am i to say that my life is more imporatant than anyone elses?

Answer 17

"mockingbird" and "kentucky friend cruelty" said all that i was meaning to say.

read their answers....then know that you've been schooled.

Answer 18

I'd become an oxygenarian.