just a vegetable

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

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just a vegetable

When the human being is without the voluntary control of his smooth muscular system depending on devices and other people to continue with the minimum of his vital functions still functioning, in a state of semi-death we say he is in a vegetative state.

This adjective by itself reminds us of the degree of contempt, prejudice and discretion with which we degrade the importance of a certain phylum of life on earth and that until it is proved that there are other places in the universe that have any living species, plant life is the unique in the universe.

According to the taxonomy of living species there is a random order of classification based on phenotypic aspects, since with the discovery of DNA and RNA the differences between species and phyla and previously established orders were confused but never changed, and it surprises us that DNA of a banana is 90% similar to that of a human being, and that pig DNA is 99% similar to that of a human being.

This classification among the phyla and orders was only for the history of the first attempts to establish a systematic and methodology of understanding of life.

Everything converges to the conclusion that life is actually one, it doesn't matter if it's a sequoia that is a tree capable of living 3000 years and reaching 120 meters in height, or a bakery fly we are all part of a single matrix of life .

Veganism starts from a sensorialization of nature where a philosophy or semi-religion has defined for itself that there is a part of the species and orders that deserve to be idolized because they have a nervous system that allows them to interact directly with humans, these are usually animals that can move around. and communicate.

Great discrimination to assume that vegetables don't react when they are plucked, crushed, suffocated, torn apart, only animals feel pain and stress, pure ignorance of vegans.

There are no scientific studies in favor of any of the principles of veganism, it should just recognize itself as just one more religion, anyway.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político