In regards to eating meat

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I disagree. Individuation seems to be the only logical reason why animals would have pain receptors and plants don't.

Can you offer an alternative explanation?

Survival.

So at what point does that appendage of an entity become a separate entity?

When it is able to support itself, I guess.

It seems to me that this focus on plants is evading the real issue.

In a thread that's in large part about vegetarianism and veganism, it's only natural to put some focus on plants. The argument has been put forward that livestock animals are individuated but plants grown as produce are not. In order to explore that argument, paying attention to how second-density entities, including plants, become individuated is to be expected.

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Both plants AND animals which rely on bisexual reproduction have activated yellow ray energy centers, placing them in the same category of spiritual awareness. Not being able to relate to the plant's awareness is not a reason to find them more suitable for consumption in my eyes.

Nicely put.