You say that like it's a bad thing.
Over the years I have read a number of articles/studies suggesting or downright saying that plants have feelings. We know that there are a lot of people who talk to plants, play music for them etc... So, um...
Sorry, did not intend to portray it as bad- proof: I am participating in it. But I think it's still that. Kind of like being at a fireplace at 2 am on a beach with strangers, after enough wine has gone around. Ripostes are thrown around as much to answer what's being said as to keep answers flowing.
Your second post is a perfect example- I post a somewhat teasingly ridiculous premise, which opened a door to discuss the definition of life and feelings, possibly a detour into the evolution of their chemo-biological mechanisms, their moral / spiritual / scientific relevance to the topic of being eaten, etc. .. could be fun to go there.
Maybe.
But why people choose to eat some stuff or wrap their cars in it possibly is not a good candidate for logical reductionism.
Would I make "the right" choice eating a carnivorous plant salad of using leather of a cow that got a heart attack from a drive by model S? Fun banter to make us think. The banter is useless the thinking is not.
My life is full of little corners with fallacies and irrational choices I believe it's ok as long as I'm aware of them and I'm happy with the morality of my choices... as evaluated by me.
Sorry I've been off-topic, but now I'm into meta-off-topic and gotta go do stuff