Tweets for Today

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• 11:01 "Life's a bitch cuz if it'd be a slut it would be too easy." #
• 12:40 is not wanting to go out in this mess. #
• 12:41 Snowpocalypse! #
• 12:54 @guykawasaki Thanks for the link to Greyscale Gorilla's best vintage game show themes adjix.com/cxqe—or not, as the case may be. #
• 16:14 @guykawasaki I'll take a medium. (Shirt, that is.) #
• 19:11 is an extra! Has no idea what film, though. #
• 19:14 @PonderingWillow I bet that quote came from a man, didn't it? #
• 19:40 @PonderingWillow God, that's great…soy makes you fabulous! It sure does! #
• 23:25 is an extra! Has no idea what film, though. #
• 23:29 @guykawasaki Ten Ways To Ruin A Job Interview? I don't even need to look; I've done them all! adjix.com/5g4f #
• 00:06 Is Honey Vegan? health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/3189 #

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Comments

[bec-87rb.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I suspect maple trees of being as sentient as bees.

I have to drill a hole in a maple tree to steal its food, but I can just lift out the rack from the comb to steal the honey. I can see worrying if one were buying mass-produced honey, but small-time beekeepers are like small time farmers - they trade the theft of the food for sheltering, protecting and some feeding of the bees. I have met beekeepers where it was pretty symbiotic; I guess sugerers might protect and farm their trees, but drilling a hole sounds pretty harsh by comparison.

What do you think? Think syrup is less harsh?

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

That's like arguing that drilling a hole through a doll's head is in effect "killing" the doll. Maple trees are living organisms, but are not considered to be "sentient," which bees are. Bees most definitely have a central nervous system, whereas it's debatable whether plants actually "feel" pain.

In fact, I know there have been plenty of studies that show plants "release a chemical agent when they are damaged in order to control cell growth and apparently the chemical agent emits a high pitched sound, which is how researchers determine the amount of the agent released." In my mind, that doesn't excuse anyone for slaughtering animals, which seems to be the aim of all these "plants feel pain" studies.