"Know" is a stretch. Plants respond to attack by releasing chemicals (e.g. nettles and grasses), curling or retracting their leaves (e.g. acacia), or by changing their morphology (e.g. holly); but they have no nervous system - let alone a brain - so it's not like you're killing an animal.

Lemmyworld admins be like

Carnivores eat animals that eat a lot more plants than humans could ever eat.

That's why I only eat baby animals. They only drink milk, which hurts no one.

Let's assume for a moment that somehow your salad was conscious. That's an even bigger reason not to eat an animal that has to be fed on plants for a long time.

Everybody needs to eat stuff. And if it is about reducing pain and having a better climate impact, you should plants all the way. A cow eats 50 times the amount of plants that it gives back in meat.

hey vegans, cool fact, plant based diets are vastly more efficient and effective at feeding people than meat based diets.

Meat consumes plants to exist, most of that energy is lost. Not so much with plants.

Just start telling people this shit lmao. Who cares about morality when you can pretend to be saving the environment instead.

There's a type of person that thinks Joe Rogan is clever because they agree with him.

"Plants rights activists" out in full force in this thread lol

There's no way this won't restart the same argument with someone, huh? Top-tier shitpost, well done.

That's why I only eat fungi. It'll be reciprocal eventually.

I mean if you stretch the definition enough even cells know they are being eaten. they usually respond by "shit this cant be good, I better press this big red button"

Yo fuck that propagandist piece of shit Joe Rogan. Keep him off of my feed.

There was a Hungarian cult that convinced others that people can survive by eating light. There were some deaths and was quickly shut down, but they exist forever in anorexia-related jokes.

Those poor cats. Vegans shouldn't be allowed to own meat.

Ew, Joe Rogan.

Do y'all not eat vegetables too?

Joe Rogan 🤮

Their fault for dressing so sexy

That's not how knowledge works.

Finally we have one thing to pin on like 3 weird vegans.