Gurney, you have obviously never lived on a farm or raised your own food to a substantial degree. I mean, you have to think that plants cannot even run and we rip them from the ground, or cut off their parts and then throw them into boiling water, etc. HOW BARBARIC IS THAT! And as to the question of seeds...we take the offspring of sunflowers and throw them into an oven and then consume them as a snack, never even having given them the chance to realize their potential to be just like Mom and Dad!