Did you know plants can learn from experience?

[Coordinate_Apotheosis]

Oh I'm not confronting or challenging those points, I agree with them more than a percentile can do justice.  Your logic makes sound sense to me considering you can remove a tree limb and reattach it to another.  You can't do that with an animal.  I just wanted to point out that plants do feel pain in some ways, but I think this is akin to the pain humans feel when exercising, is it a harsh and severe pain, or is it just 'doing the round of being delicious nutritious and healthy' (...like a...physically...fit person??? -cough-)

I also think preparing foods 'kills' them in a sense that raw broccoli isn't as energetically potent as cooked broccoli, so the process of preparing the vegetables and fruits I think can be more painful to them than the actual consumption of them.  Overall I just want my food to know I consume it as a necessity, and the sweet coincidence of their deliciousness does not mean I am okay with my inflicting suffering upon them.  It's sadly an inevitable consequence of needing to consume nutrients to survive to continue my lessons here on Earth.  And...Yet...The hallowed experience of connecting to my food in thought, and thanking it, and feeling sorrow for it's pain, sort of helps envelop me in my want to be spiritual.  I'll often finish a meal feeling like I'm in a dream when I properly thank my meal.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who avoids walking on grass because I don't want to hurt it.  I honestly thought I was the only one who did that.  I have to stop thinking that lol