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As a vegan, the most annoying people are religious people (specially abrahamic believers) and their unbreakable logic: 'If God didn't want us to eat meat, why did he give them to us' Imo that reflects their attitude towards animals: they don't see them as a living beings, but rather as things to be used.
I think it's more to do with religious people coming from rural backgrounds.
Eating meat was a celebratory thing when I was still living in rural Turkey, so at first vegetarianism seemed like "a spoiled western thing"
In my mind it was grouped next to those ragebait videos of 14 year olds yelling at their mom for getting the wrong iphone model.
Animal cruelty argument didn't work great either because, "I only eat halal certified anyway."
Content warning : Religion. Don't tap if you don't want to learn what "halal food" is.
Note: It sounds decent, especially for early 7th century Arabia standards, but no multi-billion industry is following regulations that make them less profit to 100%.
What DID convince me near instantly was someone showing how the meat industry is all exploitative and corrupt.
They waste workers, water, and animal lives on purpose because it's more profitable than proper logistics. Fucking cruel looking into it, crazy they aren't being universally boycotted already.
In good faith I am asking why vegans don't consider vegetables to be living things.
They are living organism, but don't have a nervous system or barain like animals have and there is no evidence they have a conciosness like animals have.
They are living, not sentient tho.
you can't prove they are not sentient
Neither can you prove they are, while you can easily prove that animals are.
I'm not the one making an unprovable claim
Or that animals are
Do you have a pet or have ever been close to an animal? If so you'd know.
Here an example of some cows if you can see that and say animals are not sentient than I have nothing else to say to say to you as it would just be a waste of time.
You're right, I confused sentience for sapience, my bad! Of course that means plants are absolutely sentient, as we know for sure they can feel and hear. So we're back to the beginning question, why does veganism care about the sentience of Animalia but not the sentience of Plantae or Fungi?