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I only wish it were normal.
As awful as we treat animals, we humans treat plant life with even less care. Many of us have empathy for animals because they look like us, they have a face, they have voices.
Plants and fungii are in many ways alien to us, and since they don't have a nervous system or brain, the default is to believe that it's more ethically or morally okay to harm them than animals.
I am not so sure I agree. To be clear, I am pro-veganism although my personal path to veganism became more difficult due to cancer and increased protein requirements due to that. However, I still think it's questionable that we consider plant-life as somehow lesser-than, especially when the destruction of plant-life contributes to the destruction of many species that rely on said plant-life. We're quickly destroying the last vestiges of contiguous forests of any type on the planet. In the US we were lucky to avoid the sell-off of many public lands, but I'm sure they won't stop trying to make that happen. The Amazon rain forest dwindles by the day from illegal logging.
I don't know, I think about it a lot sometimes. I know I have no proof for it, but sometimes I worry the human definitions for things like cognition and consciousness may be far too narrow and defined by our own experience and those like us, and perhaps we are really missing the forest for the trees (pun intended).
I am no good with plants, I have a black thumb, not a green thumb, but I definitely prefer diverse native plants over monoculture of grass and imported plants that look pretty.
Look I haven't been sleeping well for several weeks now, I'm exhausted and sorry for this odd ramble.