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[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Growing things are alive, that's how they grow.

If it makes you feel better, many plants want their seeds to be eaten so they can be spread. Tomatoes are just a package around the seeds, the green stems are the plants 'body'. It's more like eating semen than eating a person.

[–] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You could have just said that straight away. Not an issue for anyone on lemmy if you are into eating semen, you didn't need say trees are racist

[–] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

I was using our social construct of race as a (bad) metaphore for species selection when deciding how much to support other trees. But now a second person is digging at it, thats a sign for me to discard that descriptor in future conversations. And only plant semen for me please.