The purpose of this sharing is not to discourage you from eating vegetables or plants.
It is a reminder that all living beings and living things do feel, in their own ways.
The article: https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-really-do-scream-out-loud-we-just-never-heard-it-until-now
We already know that all animals feel pain, and previously, we could have thought that plants don’t because we think they have no pain receptors, not like the ones we know. But this does not mean they don’t “feel” in their own ways.
They do.
An excerpt:
It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a plant, it screams.
Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream. Rather, they emit popping or clicking noises in ultrasonic frequencies outside the range of human hearing that increase when the plant becomes stressed. This, according to scientists, could be one of the ways in which plants communicate their distress to the world around them.
I read Roald Dahl’s story (“The Sound Machine”) when I was a child. I remember that story only too well and felt quite miserable and sad after that!
I also remember reading that plants will give out scents to ask critters to help them and to warn other plants of the impending danger of being harmed/cut. Hence, the scent of “freshly-cut” grass is a call for help and a warning to other grasses.
So the purpose of this sharing is to remind all of us to respect Nature as far as we can.
As omnivores, we humans have to eat in order to live. That is the reality of life.
But we can observe Meatless Mondays (or more days of the week, if we can). We can observe Hara Hachi Bu, the Okinawan eating principle where you only eat until you are 80% full.
Or we can adopt Michael Pollan’s 7-worded eating principle: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
By the way, I read an article by an Okinawan nutritionist where she says she eats 5 types of foods daily for optimum health: purple sweet potatoes, daikon radishes, miso soup, seaweed and salmon. That’s four non-meat and one fish.
Less meat in our diet, for compassionate reasons.