You can, if you want, minimize the amount of animals your presence in this world brings to an early death. But you cannot reduce it to zero no even near zero. Probably hundreds of small animals (most insects but surely many other small animals) die each day because things you do.

The line on how much do you want to minimize might be on one place for you, and that's ok. But you have to respect other people lines as well.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This...plants feel pain. Mushrooms may actually be sentient. Everyone draws their own lines, it doesn't make them better or worse.

[–] o1011o@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that animals feel pain and are sentient like us, and despite the pop science articles to the contrary there is no scientific evidence that plants feel pain or have sentience at all. Plants respond to stimulus in very complicated ways, that's what we have evidence for. Don't pretend the two are equivalent. Stop getting your ideas from sensationalist pop science garbage and read the actual studies.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

So your line is at "feels pain on a level identifiable to something in the animal kingdom"

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