Itโs actually not even good for them. Itโs entirely for the presentation to the humans that buy them. It makes them spoil quicker and is also just a waste of water.
On the upside: They feel pretty good as a human on a hot day.
I donโt either, but I am in California and I donโt know if itโs because they also learned it makes shit spoil quicker (literally I learned this from working at a grocery store that had them), or if itโs a legal thing to conserve water.
They also installed sprinkler system for tourists at some tourist attractions in the very hot summer of 2015. Except they also did this at the Auschwitz camp. It was quite the uproar.
People were upset they added misters to Auswitz for the museum tourists? Itโs not like they were spraying them with lethal poison like they used to at that location. Sounds like a moment where it only was weird because people made it weird.
One Jewish visitor said that she had lost many relatives to the Holocaust at Auschwitz and that the water misters looked like the showers are family had had to endure before going to the gas chamber. Many Israeli visitors who have experienced the water misters have criticised them as distasteful.
I hate this thing. Love our local market, but they use these and itโs so annoying to have soggy everything.
It probably feels a lot more like this
Contrary to what you may believe, you donโt have to envy these vegetables and can indeed take a shower yourself.
Peppers and cucumbers are the traumatic forced abortions of the plant world. Broccoli and cauliflower are the amputated sex organs of the plants that were cut from their bodies. Celery, brussel sprouts, and artichokes are severed limbs of plants. This is a literal mass grave of dead and dying vegetation, an alter to the horrific mutilation and abuse perpetrated on an entire kingdom of life by humans. A final act of humiliation before we condemn them to the hell of cooking and consumption. I doubt the spray mist provides much comfort.
Scientists have determined that rocks have souls. This revelation came on the heels of the discovery last month that souls definitely exist.
The only ethical move is to starve.
On a more serious note, plants communicate with each other through the plant version of pheromones, and some utilize an underground internet / postal service of sorts made of fungi mycelium called a mycelial network. They can even use this network to pass nutrients to plants that are in need.
Awesome! Iโma start a death metal band and put celery and brussel sprouts on the album covers.
- Track 1: โI will Eat your Artichoke!โ
- Track 2: โYour Chopped Broccoli Falling on the Floorโ
- Track 3: โSliced Cucumberโ
- etc
Not metal, but hereโs some Vegetable Soul: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IKQjHwVc8b0
There is a religion called Jainism that actually tries to avoid harming even tiny organisms and plants. As such they avoid eating things like root vegetables that require the entire plant to be killed in order to harvest them.
Interestingly they are not necessarily against drinking milk, as milking an animal is viewed similarly to harvesting a fruit. Though its my understanding that they may still object to industrial milk production.
In traditional agriculture, you just feed, house and care for an animal, and when its young stops drinking milk, you keep milking the mother so it doesnโt stop making milk.
I canโt see any suffering in that.
Industrialized milk production is a complete perversion of that. Itโs what happens when you take a symbiotic relationship and add Capitalism.
we had these 20 years ago in my country. but these got removed because they create bacteria and lower shelf life by a lot. nothing good about them at all. just extra cost and work.
Was wondering why we donโt have this in Europe, and the answer is once again, common fucking sense.
They are still around here where I live but they are kinda needed since its dry here (under 20% mostly). Without them the produce desicates. But in moist places? Why?
