democracia vegetal

alfred north whitehead, em modes of thought, escreve (the free press, (1968) 2013, p.24):

“In the case of vegetables, we find bodily organizations which decisively lack any one centre of experience with a higher complexity either of expressions received or of inborn data. A vegetable is a democracy; an animal is dominated by one, or more centres of experience.”

a maneira com a qual um vegetal é comida é diferente da maneira pela qual um animal o é. o próprio oferecer-se como comida difere.

(trecho de the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, série de tv de 1981, BBC londres)