Evidently , empathy might not be the most appropriate ground for an ethics of vegetal life .

显然，对于植物生命的伦理观，同理心也许不是最适合的根据。

Inquiring into justifications for consuming vegetal beings thus reconceived , we reach one of the final frontiers of dietary ethics .

深入探究因此被重新审视的为吃植物所做出的辩解，我们将获得饮食伦理中的最尖端前沿理论之一。

Vegetal carbon , by contrast , is released into the atmosphere whenever woods are engulfed by fire , pests or tree-uprooting winds .

相比之下，木头经过火烧、虫害和被风连根拔起后，当然还有人类活动，其中的植物碳会再次进入大气。

The taste has to be exceptionally sweet but just slightly vegetal , so you know it came from the earth and not the candy counter .

那味道必须异乎寻常的甜，但你还是清楚它源自植物，是生于土壤，而不是出自于糖果店柜台。