Do you believe that growing a Bonsai is cruel...

[xlii]

Do you believe that neutering a dog or cat is cruel?

Are droughts cruel to trees? Are floods? How about forest fires? Is it redwoods that need forest fires for their seed pods to open?

What a silly post... has the bonsai ever complained about being a bonsai?

 

[R94N]

No, I don't think it's cruel. I actually quite like the look of Bonsai trees, although I've' never grown it myself.

Those 'bonsai kittens' look horrible. I hope they're just a wind-up.

 

[jav6454]

It's a tree...

 

[Queso]

Mowing lawns is cruel!

Look at the potential it had!

It could have crossed the Atlantic? 😱 😀

 

[Messy]

As cruel as owning a pet rock.

Hahahaha ****ing brilliant, made me cough cola through my nose.

😀

 

[flopticalcube]

Mowing lawns is cruel!

Look at the potential it had!

I actually prefer the uncut lawn. Looks the way nature intended rather than trying to make it look like a green carpet.

 

[Messy]

Prefer the green carpet.

 

[Jaffa Cake]

Those 'bonsai kittens' look horrible. I hope they're just a wind-up.

Yes. Yes, they are.

 

[-aggie-]

Mowing lawns is cruel!

Look at the potential it had!

We need a new organization: PETT or PETV.

Eating tomatoes is cruel. This must stop!!!

 

[Firestar]

Bonsai trees? Not cruel at all.

Bonsai kittens, however?

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Arguably a bit cruel. They make great gifts though, what with Christmas coming up...

That's terrible.... 😱🙄

Do you believe that neutering a dog or cat is cruel?

More or less. Better than their population increasing and then having some put down, or homeless. 🙁

Mowing lawns is cruel!

Look at the potential it had!

😱

 

[lewis82]

I don't see how it oculd be cruel. Plants don't have nerves😉

 

[R94N]

I actually prefer the uncut lawn. Looks the way nature intended rather than trying to make it look like a green carpet.

It's also better for the local wildlife as well 🙂

Yes. Yes, they are.

Good! 😉

 

[steve2112]

It's a tree...

It's a tree, get an axe.

A very small axe.

 

[iJohnHenry]

It's a tree, get an axe.

A very small axe.

True.

Really, how much pulp would that baby yield??

As for absorbing carbon dioxide and generating oxygen?? Forgitaboutit!!

 

[eawmp1]

After I mow my lawn the tiny screams of the thousands of cut blades haunts my dreams.

Waloshin, what color is the sky in your world? And who is your dealer (and is he accepting new customers)?

 

[Don't panic]

just plant a bunch of them to make a bonsai savannah for the mini-giraffe to live in.
done. everyone is happy

 

[iJohnHenry]

just plant a bunch of them to make a bonsai savannah for the mini-giraffe to live in.
done. everyone is happy

Now your talking!!!!!!!

I will support any flora torture that will allow mini-giraffe to flourish.

What a cutie. 😀

 

[Aeolius]

Is growing a vegetable garden cruel?

Granted, some may argue that boiling lobsters and then eating them is cruel, but my tummy says it's fine.

 

[Firestar]

just plant a bunch of them to make a bonsai savannah for the mini-giraffe to live in.
done. everyone is happy

They are. 🙂

I will support any flora torture that will allow mini-giraffe to flourish.

What a cutie. 😀

Me too! 😀

 

[kainjow]

I don't, but these people probably do.

 

[lbro]

I don't, but these people probably do.

Is this for real? Talk about going over the top! 😱

 

[Beric]

Ever grown a carrot in your garden? You drop a seed in the ground; it grows up. Then you rip it out of the ground, removing it forever from the only home it's known all its life. You take it inside, and bathe it in freezing cold water. Then you chop it into tiny bits, alive, and drop it into some stew, cooking its chopped up flesh. You then eat the stew, enjoying consuming the cooked flesh of that freshly-murdered carrot every second (my mom makes great stew, BTW).

Ever thought of it from the carrot's perspective? 😕

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

Not sure where the OP was going with this...

But my take is that it gives many of us the opportunities to see trees and forests that we might have never seen.

Seen some bonsai collections that have allowed me to travel the world without leaving the US...

 

[yayitsezekiel]

it's a tree

are you going to go bandage up trees that are cut down?
🙄

 

[dukebound85]

wow that is cool. I am so getting one. looks really neat....never thought you could have a mini tree!