Are you saying ignorance is better than knowledge? As for the guilt about eating animals, you have a personal choice to make based on your values at every meal. Aside: I don't see how a stuffed animal is related to the suffering of real animals in factory farms; perhaps you are confusing disparate ideas there.

I don’t think we should anthropomorphize plants to the point where we feel guilty about eating them, but I do think society as a whole is missing a kind of fundamental respect for nature and discounts the complexity and interestingness of plant life.

In a world where conserving nature is simultaneously increasingly difficult and increasingly important, I don’t mind a bit of artistic license when it comes to descriptions of plant life if it leads to more awareness and more people thinking twice about plants and how we treat natural ecosystems.

Obviously there’s a balance to be struck though.

There’s a really simple way to rid you of the first kind of guilt, though…

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> That day will come

You act so sure, yet your own post betrays that you know it’s not based on current evidence (“waiting for the day…”).

I think your view on this imagined scenario says a lot more about yourself than how vegetarians reacting to plant suffering would about themselves.