Cann!bal said:
To lack sentience is to lack reason and thinking, however, not feeling and desire. Plants desire sunlight and other commodities and they do indeed feel pain. To empathize is to feel their pain. Plants feel pain. They do not lack it. They may not reciprocate these concepts as we do, however, that does not mean therefore they may be treated unethically for they are insignificant and deserve no rights.
Without a nervous system or a brain, they cannot feel pain. They may respond to stimuli, but they are not physically
feeling pain.
'Plants—unlike animals—are insentient beings void of central nervous systems, lungs, hearts, kidneys, intestines, blood, ears and eyes. They do not defecate or urinate either. Nobody screams in horror when their neighbors are mowing the lawn (grass is a plant, too). But if neighbors were slicing pigs into pieces on the front lawn, there would be tears, physical interventions and the proper authorities would be summoned to stop the bloodshed. Plus, if people honestly believe it's wrong to eat plants, they could always choose the ultra-vegan lifestyle of fruitarianism (eating the fruits and nuts that fall from trees).'
'Scientifically speaking, a plant-based food is not a sentient being, does not have an innate, emotional inclination to avoid bodily harm or death (in the same way that animals do), does not have a nervous system, and, therefore, is not even designed to process the sensation of pain.'
It's impossible to reciprocate or understand feelings that are non-existent.
Anaheim said:
I don't think it is completely 100% healthy to be eating like that too without any meat.
Humans can easily survive and thrive without the consumption of meat.