Try to explain that vegetation produces crops (i.e. fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes) which will rot or otherwise go unused if not imminently consumed and this involves no loss of life whereas the consumption of animals involves the premature termination of their lives.
As a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection report states, "Even without people, the state's volatile combination of climate, terrain and vegetation produces one of the most combustible natural fire environments on earth".
The soft or weak rocks unprotected by vegetation produce a fine texture, whereas massive and resistant rocks cause coarse texture.
(Decomposing vegetation produces methane, which is released slowly by bubbling up in the reservoir, or quickly when water is run through the turbines and released downstream).
The major agricultural crops and vegetations produced in the area are maize, barely, wheat, sorghum, cabbage, bean, pea, salad, lentil, pepper, garlic, onion, tomato, potato and carrot.
In a previous study examining the effects of pCF10 carriage and Asc10 expression on experimental endocarditis in rabbits [16], we found that the bacterial load in endocarditis vegetations produced by a strain with an in-frame deletion of prgB was about 10000-fold lower than produced by the strain carrying the wild-type allele.
Although acapsular strains provoke endocarditis at lower inocula than encapsulated isolates [ 46], S. aureus recovered from vegetations produce large quantities of capsular polysaccharides [ 12], consistent with our observation that the cap5 genes were upregulated in established vegetations.
On the island of Sardinia the destruction of the carob forests and on the Apulian Plain the decay of olive trees and shore vegetation have produced steppes of tough plants such as the various sorts of feather grass.
On many lower mountain slopes, cutting, grazing, and burning the original vegetation have produced an often dense cover of maquis, or scrub growth, characterized by various associations of wild olive, mastic tree, kermes oak (Quercus coccinea), arbutus, heather, myrtle, artemisia, cytisus (Medicago arborea), broom, and rosemary.
