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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 ... .
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Are seeds the only part of plants that are eaten by humans?
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However they don't have nerve system ...
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A belief that is now being challenged by some.
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... and don't "feel" the same way we do.
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As would also seem to be the case for the vast majority of animals.
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There is absolutely no difference in your feelings by being slaughtered and the same experience of e.g. cattle or a pig.
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A view that many hold to be anthropomorphic, one that does, in truth, assume facts not in evidence for other than a very small number of creatures.
This is not to say that animals should or need be treated in a manner wholly insensitive to their own sensibilities. And, having been raised in the traditions of both farming and hunting, I can, without fear of contradiction, state that animals, both domesticated and wild, can and are used as food in a manner such that their deaths are far more swift and painless than those experienced by the overwhelming majority of wild and feral creatures.
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Ethics is not limited to human beings only, unless you are anthropocentric or deeply (abrahamic) religious person.
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What in the Abrahamic religions serves to differentiate them form other beliefs with respect to the treatment of animals?