> Since everything living can feel pain for a generous definition of the term and since you kill plants and indirectly insects even on a plant based diet, there

> Since everything living can feel pain for a generous definition of the term and since you kill plants and indirectly insects even on a plant based diet, there is little difference There certainly is if you take quantity into account. To quote the page linked to by unfairly-downvoted sibling comment: > Regardless, each pound of animal flesh requires between four and thirteen pounds of plant matter to produce, depending upon species and conditions. Given that amount of plant death, a belief in the sentience of plants makes a strong pro-vegan argument.