Of Course Plants Like to Live

The title of this article reminds me of the time someone told me in high school that broccoli screams as though that would somehow undermine my recent choice to become a vegetarian.  Of course, the whole "eat animals, save the plants" argument is ridiculous because eating meat causes the death of far more vegetation than a vegetarian diet would.  Not to mention the fact that a person can live without eating meat, but not without eating vegetables.

However, the lesson to take away here is that one cannot treat plants as though they are inanimate and without moral weight. I am not suggesting some sort of plant liberation movement, but rather that we should think twice before carving our names into living trees.