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What you are describing is reaction to stimuli. You also describe gas releasing from tomatoes. Plants definitely have some form of biological intelligence but Vegans don't care about that and that's my point. Your comment doesn't address OP's question because what you are talking about has nothing to do with Veganism. This is why I got so dang frustrated. So many of these commenters were not in a position to answer OP's question because they don't know what Veganism is or what Vegans value.
Biological intelligence is not the same as having a subjective experience. If there is no subject, there is no one to grant rights to. There is no one ever experiencing pain or pleasure etc. You could at best take an agnostic position on plant consciousness. As we understand it today, consciousness is an emerging property of life with brains/nervous systems. In any case you are probably and hopefully wholly uncaring of tomatoes being harvested, and in that respect it's hard for me to discern your point of discussion as good faith.
Oh, I don't care about tomatoes being harvested any more than livestock being slaughtered, I'm not a vegan.
I find the science behind plant communication fascinating and there's more going on there than we currently comprehend.
Yeah it's totally fine to be fascinated with the chemical interactions of plants. This just wasn't the thread to bring it up if we're addressing OP's question in good faith.
I was responding to your (rather snide, now deleted) comment regarding "idiots in the thread posting about plant intelligence."
There is more going on with plant communication than we give them credit for. Can it be called "intelligence"? Well, not as we currently comprehend it, no. But at the same time, it's not as easily dismissed either.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3489624/
Yeah, I think derailing the thread with bad faith intentions to redefine Veganism and not answering OP's question is pretty idiotic. Mod thought my comment was mean, but idc.