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Originally Posted by deepsand
Killing fields? Do you not kill plants?
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True, plants do respond to some stimuli and according to researches they even feel pain in some way.
I have never found similar research about seed that plants voluntarily give away (including tomato
).
However they don't have nerve system and don't "feel" the same way we do. We can for now at least start, reduce the suffering and leave question about plants for the future.
Sense of something being "normal" because "everyone does it" is a very wrong one. E.g. not so long time ago even Aristotle claimed slavery was a natural law.
Humans can have empathy, so being able to conjure emotions of another fellow living beings with exactly the same basic instinctive feelings (fear, pain, love, happiness, despair...) combined with the current technology level, there should be no need anymore to produce yearly billions of terrified souls and unnecessary industrialized deaths.
There is absolutely no difference in your feelings by being slaughtered and the same experience of e.g. cattle or a
pig (this is the mildest video I could find).
The same for the conditions where for example you would be unable to move for days in unnatural positions, with broken hands, etc.
Ethics is not limited to human beings only, unless you are anthropocentric or deeply (abrahamic) religious person.