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Plants are not sentient
Just because there is no indication of their suffering doesn't mean they don't suffer.
Dude common, really?
Plants don't have a central nervous system. Pain and suffering is not in any way an evolutionary need for plants. We have a CNS and get the impulses, because we have the ability to do something about. Hold your hand above a flame and the pain will make you retract your hand. Hold a flame under a leaf and it'll just burn.
Furthermore your claim is currently infalsifiable. We can't proof that you're suffer even if you tell me that you're suffering.
Indeed. Many plants even bear fruit that is intended to be eaten. I don't think any animals intend to be eaten. Fruit is specifically supposed to look and taste good, so that animals eat it and crap out the seeds elsewhere. Even edible leaves are beneficial, as the animals leave fertiliser (more shit).
Though, to say the plant wants to be eaten would be a stretch. There's no evidence of a thought process, it's entirely developed just from evolutionary gain. Animals, however, do think.
Have you considered that certain parts of a plant wouldn't feel pain if plants can feel pain just like we don't feel pain when cutting our hair for example even though our hair is a part of us