[pvaldes]

And if I see direct evidence that you commited plant abuse to kill it, can I call the police also? I want also to manipulate the other people with my elastic god-rules, created for the ocassion, like vegans do.

Hey a dead cactus, in a minuscule pot... call the FBI!

[jlgreco]

There are animal abuse laws on the book right now. If there are plant abuse laws, then feel free to report plant abuse that you observe while trespassing.

For that matter, feel free to report plant abuse even if there are not laws against it, just don't expect anyone to care.

[pvaldes]

> just don't expect anyone to care.

And this the sad fact that I want to stress.

Most people see only an invented and small part of the reality. Plants are much more important to the humans that animals.

To classify a living organism as good because it has neurons and can emit noises (like a clam?) or bad because it has chloroplasts instead and can not move quickly (like a Mimosa?) is a real nonsense. Inherited stupidity.

Same as to protect common animals with four legs but to crush rare animals with six legs. Same as to call the police because we can not stand that somebody kills a chicken and feeling soo virtuous eating soy that was cultivated killing thousands of animals and plants. Same as to ignore that we, humans, are omnivores, and our gut is neither a moral nor amoral structure.

Plants provide the 99% of the energy that moves the chain food and that permits the human life on this planet. Plants provide water, and we, the people, are made of more than 60% of pure water. We should be grateful to those magnificient creatures... Yes, we can argue that plants can not cry... and what's the big fuss? We don't expect a lattice singing opera. We are just scratching the surface about the complex plant communication (chemical, electrical)... So we chomp, ignore, cut down and poison the plants, and protect the animals that are plant eaters until the exhaustion of the resources... yep, human moral.

[jlgreco]

I don't think that the classification being done is "good" or "bad". Rather we classify things as "okay to eat" and "not okay to eat". Vegetarians are not classifying animals as "good" and plants as "bad". Fruititarians are not classifying plants and animals as "good" but things that fall off plants as "bad". Everyone is doing the same classification: "am I okay with eating this, or am I not"; the only trick is that different people come up with different answers to that question.

To be clear, my classification is tuned very far to one extreme. That is to say, I would eat anything given the opportunity (in some cases necessity comes into play).