On cooking and chasing...
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Josella: Plants must feel sorry for animals.
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Bill: Why?
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| The Bridge of Screams |
Josella: Animals have to keep moving looking for food. Plants can just stay in one place and make their own food.
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Bill: But maybe animals feel sorry for plants. Animals eat plants. They can’t run away. Someone once asked me, “Can’t you hear a lettuce scream when you slice it up?”
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Josella: I heard that question way back in the 1960s.
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Bill: So do animals feel sorry for plants?
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Josella: Extreme vegans, like at Level 5, might.
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Bill: Extreme vegan? What is a level 5 vegan?
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Josella: Someone who never eats anything that casts a shadow.
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Voice-over
Plants are sessile, they don’t move. Animals are motile, they move. But if the objective is to propagate the species, both are successful. Plants spread their seeds by wind, and by animals. As a life form plants are mobile. They don’t care about the individual as long as the species flourishes. Animals invest more personal drama and mobility in reproducing. They resist perishing, as if their personal survival is linked to the perpetuation of the species.
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