And it's a well established fact that plants respond to light and
temperature. So they too appear have some sensory response akin to
pain. Why should we be concerned about fish but not plants.

We should be concerned about as much as we can. We still need to eat,
so we simply do the best we can and eat to the highest level of
compassion . Your comment on *akin to pain* is interesting, BUT..,
evolutionarily, it would not be worthwhile or advantageous in any way
for a plant to develop a "pain" sensor, since it cannot do anything to
run or defend itself. My *guess* is that anything that gives
discomfort akin to pain in plants is probably nonexistent. To say that
response to light is like pain is a stretch - it is more like saying we
humans prefer relative warmth to cold.

Have you ever considered how difficult it must be to live the life of
a
carrot? Living your early solitary life 6 inches beneath the ground
you are summarily yanked from the ground, your curly green hair is torn

off and you are thrown into a scrubber. As a carrot your ultimate fate

is to be either peeled, chewed, boiled or frozen. Not a pretty picture

for carrots is it...

Very sweet and quaint, but see above.

Pretty soon we won't be eating anything....

I will eat so that my life contributes the least to the pain and
suffering of others. Simple as that.

Bruce Jensen