Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Yup (Score 1) 543  by Riddler
Sensei (#46445653) Attached to: Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty
It's a frequent "let's play absurd" argument from meat eaters
that plants have a central nervous system, too, and suffer and
that they are being nice to plants by not eating meat.  I have
NEVER heard this said outside of joking. If someone has actually
tried to seriously argue a plant CNS with you, kick them in a
soft spot - for me.  However, plants != meat. You come close to
realizing this but quickly step away from the edge. Meat is
"inefficient" because it is a degree removed from the original
energy source. That is, the sun jaunts on down and gets captured
by a plant to be used as energy to convert local material into
being more plants. We can now eat that plant OR we can feed that
plant to an animal which will then use the energy and materials
to make more animal. The extra step is subject is lossiness,
just as you would expect.  But we don't do this lossy conversion
just becaus