so, turns out that it's becoming increasingly awkward to ignore plant intelligence;
whereas before we sort of took them to be these weird, dumb things that grew out of the ground, more and more there's a reasonable argument to be made that they probably just operate on a longer timescale to the point where it's probably reasonable to attribute sentience to them
(they respond and make decisions according to their environment; they remember stimuli, they communicate with other plants, just on a timeframe of say days and weeks rather than a few minutes)
so fine so dandy, pretty neat, turns out we're really not all that special
my question then, tho, is what does this do to the question of animal rights/vegetarianism?