Now you try it!

Try this little experiment to show that uncooked veggies are actually ALIVE!
Take two onions, and place one in the cupboard. Peal and chop the other onion and put it in a jar in the fridge.
Wait several weeks.
Now take out the two onions and compare them. The one in the cupboard looks, feels and smell just fine. The one in the fridge smells bad and is rotten.
A live onion has a set of passive and active defences against rot. By destroying these defences we opened the onion up to degradation.