[Argento]

I've got a question here which I've never gotten an answer to, and/or I haven't asked it...... However what's the difference between killing a animal and killing a plant? They're both alive right? They both react to, say, cut limbs. They both live on water, and both try to stay alive and survive. Plants have developed defense mechanisims for animals that might eat them, like wise animals have claws or other natural defenses at their dissposal.

Now maybe there's some basic biological meaning here that I'm missing which disgtingishes the two completely from each other, but if not how come nobody cares at all about eating plants, but some get a huge boner against eating animals?