Are you sure that plants don't go through pain? How do you feel about the small animals that cows eat when they graze? I'm sure those little birds and insects feel some pain when the cows chew them up.
No I am not sure that plants don't go through pain. I am however quite sure that animals experience pain, and so I don't want my food system dependent on that. I am pretty unconcerned with wild animals eating other wild animals however, as that seems to be the way of the Earth. I am only concerned with humans confining animals and growing them for commercial consumption, as it is clear to me that we are capable of thriving without such cruelty.
Big props to any cow that eats a bird though.
I lived on a dairy farm for many years and never saw a cow eat a bird.
Someone on Twitter told me “you obviously don’t care about the fawn that will lose a leg from the harvester” as if vegetable farmers are out there mowing down deer every chance they get. People come up with weird reasons why “actually the vegans are the monsters”. And this is just me talking about being vegan, I do not criticize people for eating meat.