| etking said: As recent research more and more suggests that plants may have vision and consciousness, there are no arguments for being vegan. If you do not want to harm another form of life you are allowed to eat artificial food only. |
That's actually the strongest reason to be vegan of them all. The animals you eat consume hundreds of times more plants than you would if you swapped those animal products out of your diet for plant-based foods. I actually have found the research you're referring to as not persuasive: my take on it is that some plants are able to be reactive to their environment, not that they are conscious in any way. But if I say that recognizing that if they were conscious that it would actually strengthen my overall argument. A cow may eat 500 times as much food as you get out of eating the cow, which sounds like a disaster for those concerned about the poor plants. The argument that plants feel pain is often held up as an anti-vegan argument, but it's actually the most pro-vegan argument of them all.
