Why do vegans eat plants?!

Why do vegans eat plants?

Those were technically living at a certain point just as animals where.

Vegans eat plants for many reasons. Some are logical reasons, others are not. Many eat plants rather than animals because plants do not feel pain the way that animals do and would rather not inflict pain. Others do it because they think it is wrong to eat something that has a face or reminds them of people (as one answerer has already shown). Chosing of one life over another just because it has and has eyes and a heart seems rather silly. It's also somewhat vain in that it requires something to be like oneself in order to be worthy of living.

The belief that plants are completely unaware and unfeeling is somewhat inaccurate. The roots of plants grow towards gravity and the stems/leaves grow away from it because they sense it. Plants breathe. Flowers close up or follow light because of conditions that the plant senses. Did you know that many plants can sense when they are being touched or eaten and react accordingly? Many plants can immediately sense when an herbivore is eating their leaves and release chemicals that can make the leaves taste bad, as well as release chemicals into the air. These chemicals warn other plants to start producing these volatile chemicals to ward off herbivores, and they can also attract predator insects like wasps to the area. These immediate reactions show that plants are not only aware but don't want to be eaten, either. They might not show it in the same way that animals do or sense things in the same way, but saying that they are not sentient and therefore worth less than animals is ridiculous.

And people are not "designed" to strictly eat plants. We are designed for both vegetation and flesh -- omnivores. Take a look at an herbivore's digestive tract and see the difference. It's part of what made us so successful in evolution.