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If you are genuinely interested in the vegan position, I'd happily answer (or you could have used a search engine and gotten millions of answers). Something tells me you're not being genuine in your motivation.
In short: there is no sentience and thus, no capacity for suffering inside plants as far as we know based on scientific consensus. Animals do have this. Hence why I care about taking a knife to an animals throat and slicing it, and not about chopping a carrot.
Even if you believe for whatever bum fuck spiritualist reason that plants can suffer, you can minimize plant usage by going vegan. Keeping all those farm animals alive requires (plantbased) feed, so cutting out the middle man reduces the number of plants wasted.
this can't be proven
Should we, according to you, grant the same amount of ethical consideration to a tomato as to a cat/pig/bird/etc? Do you actually believe there is a sentient being in a plant, or a rock for that matter?
Our best scientific understanding is that a CNS is essential for sentience, and there is no serious evidence support plant sentience. You can play the philospher and argue this, but then technically you can't prove human sentience outside your own (if that). Should we go kill humans?
Anyway. I see you're not serious in this conversation and are just trolling. Have a good one.
i never said that. what i said is that you can't prove there isn't.