[Lazamataz]

A vegetarian is someone who won't eat meat for ethical reasons. Then there are vegans. They not only think it is wrong to eat animals, they refuse to eat animal products, such as milk and eggs. Even though such foods do not involve killing animals, they do come from keeping cattle and chickens in captivity and exploiting them for human use. Then there are the fruitarians, who consider even vegans insufficiently moral. Vegans still eat plants, and plants are just as alive as animals. Fruitarians believe that the only ethical thing to eat is fruit, since the plants that produce fruit are not destroyed.

I won't be satisfied until they refuse to eat at all.

[SLB]

Fruitarians

I think the name says it all. Plain old "Fruity."

[boris]

"I won't be satisfied until they refuse to eat at all."

Someone told me that Ghandi's parents, members of a sect of Buddhism called "Jains", concluded that eating plants could not be ethical. Their aim to reduce 'suffering' was incompatible with consuming plants. So they both killed themselves by refusing to eat, literally starving to death for the benefit of celery.

I don't know if this is true. Maybe someone here knows.

It would seem that even Jains could eat, for example, fruit that has fallen from a tree by itself...or no, perhaps the seed could be considered "potential life" and hence one could not interfere with its germination. But what about carrion or, you know, dead fish that wash up on shore...?

I wonder how the Jains feel about abortion?

--Boris

[Terriergal]

I won't be satisfied until they refuse to eat at all.

Just tell them you believe oxygen molecules have rights too.