Jat: I read that plants are alive too? Some says this make vegetarians and vegans murderers too!
Yah: How can anyone talk about compassion towards the non-sentient when they don’t do something about their meat diet? Do sentient beings of flesh and blood don’t more readily deserve compassion? It’s unfair to justify meat-eating by calling vegetarians and vegans plant-killers.
Jat: Well, they claimed that plants are living things as well.
Yah: Yes they are, and as mentioned before (in a previous article: How To Give 51% More Hope To Hopenhagen), before we can find a better diet for humans, vegetarianism and veganism are still the best options now. If we cannot practise compassion towards living beings whom we can hear screaming before being slaughtered, why harp on the ‘pain’ of plants?