>>207961981. There is no evidence for the conscience of plants. Clay dynamically reacts, and is able to retain a memory. Clay has several senses, such as one of touch and temperature sensitivity. The clay may show some basic self-preservation and have a desire to resist further impressions by e.g. a ball thrown into it. Because of that, once a certain condition is met, it can deploy its countermeasure, which is drying out and becoming harder. This condition is met when sunlight/heat dries it out. This is not an incidental event with a terminal, static outcome, but rather a dynamic measure that preserves the "essence" of the clay (rather than transforming it into something else to which the "clay" label no longer applies) and its clay-properties. It's fully within the calculus of the clay to, at a future point, return to its baseline i.e. soft, malleable state: it inductively counts on the reliability of the rain cycle. Yet I think its safe to say that clay is NOT a conscious being, just like plants.
2. Most crops are produced for animal farming, which is very inefficient. Less animal farming also means less crops.
3. Hunting is bad too, were no longer cavemen that have to hunt to survive.
When a child goes out to murder animals, we call a psychiatrist. When adults do it, we call it "sports".
