They don’t have a brain really and kinda just float there. Do they even feel pain?

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      We may be able to tell if they are stressed, which could be related to pain, depending on your viewpoint.

      Here is a recent study of audible reactions plant can have to stress: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3

      Do plants react to stress and harmful situations like infestation? Absolutely. Do they actually feel pain as we understand it? Probably not since they lack a nervous system.

      This boils down to the question: What is pain?

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        If you want to minimize plant death, going vegan is still the right move.

        Most of the crops we grow go to feeding animals that people eat.

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          I don’t really care about minimizing plant death. I’m not Vegan or Vegetarian, nor will I be in the future. I just made a joke.

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              Thank you for the definition. I think it is wrong. But i appreciate it nonetheless.

              My reasoning is that, while it may have started as a theistic word, it isn’t anymore. When someone says it i don’t think “a creation of God” i just think of like, an animal. Definitions change over time.

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        They told me Lemmy would be more leftist, why am I still seeing 0 IQ vegan jokes

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              The former, by definition, because the vast majority of society does the latter. Extremists always try to reframe themselves as the moderate ones and say mainstream society are the extremists instead, so I’m not surprised you’re saying this.