[noondip]

You are ignorant or dishonest if you think "killing" a plant and animal is in any way equatable.

Edit: Even supposing plants have the ability to suffer and experience pain in the same way non-human animals do, you should be immediately compelled to stop their abuse, for the raising of livestock "injures" and "kills" many, many more plants than if you had just eaten them for sustenance directly.

Have a look at this brief article, which explains and dispells your confused assumption quite well - http://pixellant.com/adaptt/insipid-killing-plants-argument/

Of course, I don't think you're serious; I think you are taking refuge in the plant-killing argument because no other rationalizations are available. That is sad.

[kefka]

Why is it so hard to acknowledge that plants:

     1. Feel
     2. Learn
     3. Respond to pain
     4. Not respond to pain if under anaesthesia
     5. Chemically whimper if they are sick
     6. Communicate

... That there might be something deeper? Where is your sense of scientific inquiry that the previously held beliefs are potentially wrong?

Would you want to be able to open up a line of communication if it were indeed possible?