[raverbashing]

Newsflash: nothing in nature "produces" food specifically for another species/groups (with some exceptions)

The plant "doesn't want" to be eaten (except for fertilization purposes) any more than any animal who can become prey.

[ianai]

Actually many plants “manipulate” animals or insects to do their bidding through their produce. Many (all?) flowers exist to attract bees or birds to carry their pollen to other plants. Some even paste their pollen onto bees after trapping them into a sticky fluid. Fruit of course transmit seeds for plants. Those plants being cultivated in farms may not often have their seeds directly planted for the next generation, but their species is definitely assured to continue by their humans.

[Fnoord]

Agreed, but it still possible to have low impact on the pain of other organisms. Plants do not have a CNS like mammals do.

[Grustaf]

“Except for fertilization”

I would argue that to the extent plants want anything at all, it’s just that. Animals too, for that matter.