In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

There is only one thing I'd like to point out, it has been measured and documented that plants 'stress' when the intention is held to damage them (or other life).

In summary, Dr Cleve Baxter, a CIA polygraph expert, one day he decided to connect the system to a plant. He noticed an output of a shifting wave pattern (he was expecting it to be continuous/steady), and investigated further. He discovered the plants were responding to the thoughts of people and animals nearby. He proved, quite conclusively, that holding an intention of burning one of the leaves caused the plants recoded output to spike and stress out on a large scale.

Burning a leaf is obviously an act of violence to the plant.

The real question is: Would a plant register the same sort of distress when lovingly tended by a gardener, then harvested and eaten by that gardener?

Just doing the test by having a human eat a plant won't suffice, because the intention would still be to just study the plant. The only true test would be if the person conducting the test truly were eating the plant for sustenance. I doubt if such a test has been done, and I question whether it even could be done.

At any rate, the argument that plants feel pain too, does not support the argument of eating animals. Quite the opposite: that's all the more reason to not eat animals, since many more plants are killed, for the purpose of feeding animals. It is far more efficient to eat the plants than to eat animals who ate plants. Far fewer plants are harmed, by humans adopting a plant-based diet. The meat industry kills vast numbers of plants, to support the animals.