Sentient Plants

you know i read my frenz blog about animal rights and vegetarianism and how animals are made to suffer to feed us.... well then how bout plants? they are living breathing (or rather give out breath) organisms... they have "sex" in a way and produce offspring.. they feel also.. in way that they respond to environmental changes just like us... just that they can't speak doesn't mean they do not feel.. hey i'm a horticulturist for crying out loud.. i love these green fellas...

plants have evolved a way of getting energy by just standing there and absorbing rays of the sun.. and water and various chemicals.. how cost effective.. while we have to poop out stuff taht we cannot digest... also it is said that in really old trees there are spirits living inside... dryad they are called guardians of the forest, the living essence of the forest...

and the ents of LOTR... aren't they just kool? living walking guardians of the forest... ok i'm beggining to sound like Poison Ivy...

anyways wat i'm trying to say is that we take plants for granted... of course we feel for our fellow red blooded cousins but thats the cycle of life... also don't take plants for granted... they are the reason we are still here... ok? here's a song from Arrogant Worms... some food for thought...


Listen up brothers and sisters, come hear my desperate tale
I speak of our friends of nature, trapped in the dirt like a jail
Vegetables live in oppresion, served on our tables each night
The killing of veggies is madness, I say we take up the fight
Salads are only for murderers, cole slaw's a fascist regime
Don't think that they don't have feelings, just cuz a radish can'tscream

CHORUS
I've heard the screams of the vegetables (scream scream scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (Having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)
Carrot Juice constitutes murder (and that's a real crime)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables grow)
It's time to stop all this gardening (it's as dirty as hell)
Let's call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade...)

I saw a man eating celery, so I beta him black and blue
If he ever touches a sprout again, I'll bite him clean in two
I'm a political prisoner trapped in a windowless cage
Cuz I stopped the slughter of turnips by killing three men in a rage
I told the judge when he sentenced me, this is my finest hour
I'd kill those farmers again just to save one more cauliflower

CHORUS

How low as people do we dare to stoop
Making young broccoli's bleed in the soup
Untie your beans, uncage your tomatoes, let potted plants free
Don't mash that potatoe I've heard the screams of the vegetables (scream screamscream)
Watching their skins being peeled (fates in the stir fry are sealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (you fat gourmet slob)
How do you think that feels (leave them out in the fields)
Carrot Juice constitutes murder (V8's genocide)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (yes your compost's a grave)
It's time to stop all this gardening (take up macrame)
Let's call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade...)
Power to the peas Give peas a chance
All we are saying is give peas a chance