matt@oscvax.UUCP (Matthew Bates) (08/08/84)
on the subject of "killing plants" : most plant food is a fruit in the sense that the plant doesn't die when the fruit is picked in fact picking the fruit does it a service by spreading the seeds around when you throw the core away so apples, peppers, squashes, nuts, grains and beans etc. are all fruits sortof you could even argue along the same lines for milk, eggs and honey but then again the dairy industry feeds the meat industry (i can give more details on this if anyone's interested) you could also argue that root vegetables "could" be picked after the frost and the plants soul has passed on to the big organic garden in the sky but that's obviously not how it's normally done the hard one's to explain away are things like lettuce etc. where the plant is beheaded - well if you had your own garden you "could" pick a few leaves for dinner and leave the rest, in fact a lot of plants grow better if you do so who cares, eh? i do in answer to the nutritional question: no there will be no nutritional deficiency in eating as the genesis quote says (seed-bearing plants......) for a healthy person, of course if your body is all f__ked up from many years of meat and junk food then be careful if you are worried about protein then get into grain/bean complimenting as outlined in Frances Moore Lappe's book "Diet for a Small Planet" as for vitamin B12 - it's in "tempeh" (a delicious fermented soyfood) and in most nutritional yeasts