As we can. We understand how animals think, because evolutionarily they’re closer to us. We don’t really understand how plants “think” or “feel”, we just decide that because they don’t have what we have that makes it okay.
That understanding has its limits. We’re just cracking on the ways plants (and fungi) may communicate with one another via external chemical signalling. There are things beyond our current understanding, and how a plant “feels” is completely alien to us. Hell, the function of how people “feel” is still not fully understood.
My point is that it’s ultimately arbitrary. We feel pain, and we can imagine animals feeling pain in a similar way, because their neurological systems are similar. We assume plants don’t feel pain - and we can confidently say they don’t feel pain the same way we do, but we can’t say they don’t feel pain at all in a way we don’t yet understand.
Either way though, both plants and animals are living beings, and you are denying them the same opportunity to life by eating them.
Plants cannot think or feel as animals can. Arguing a tomato has the emotions and thought of a dog or pig is just silly.
Killing a pig versus a tomato is not the same thing dawg
As we can. We understand how animals think, because evolutionarily they’re closer to us. We don’t really understand how plants “think” or “feel”, we just decide that because they don’t have what we have that makes it okay.
Just making up whatever you want aren’t you?
“I’m not a plant therefore idk what their nonthinking minds are thinking”
Who is we in your statement? Pretty sure modern botany understands how plants work and interact.
That understanding has its limits. We’re just cracking on the ways plants (and fungi) may communicate with one another via external chemical signalling. There are things beyond our current understanding, and how a plant “feels” is completely alien to us. Hell, the function of how people “feel” is still not fully understood.
My point is that it’s ultimately arbitrary. We feel pain, and we can imagine animals feeling pain in a similar way, because their neurological systems are similar. We assume plants don’t feel pain - and we can confidently say they don’t feel pain the same way we do, but we can’t say they don’t feel pain at all in a way we don’t yet understand.
Either way though, both plants and animals are living beings, and you are denying them the same opportunity to life by eating them.