Plants are a higher being, no question about it. An organism or life force, which can make its own food from the sun, is pretty cool. Imagine going on a surf trip and not needing to pack anything to eat. Just sit out the back waiting for the next big set to come through, all the time "eating". Just think how long you could stay out there, assuming your arms did not fall of with fatigue. What about a camping trip or even just a day at the office? "Everybody, I'm going outside for lunch".
And no messy hands or sauce stains on your tie. No need to find a place to put your rubbish.
What about reproduction? Most humans think about sex a lot. Have you ever noticed all the incredible ways plants reproduce? If the Kama Sutra was re written for the plant world, it would indeed be a weighty tome. A bit falls off here, a seed flies away there, a bramble catches on an unsuspecting animals leg to be taken on a trip to conquer foreign lands, some use bees, others beetles, even a drop of rain can do. Awesome. Some plants can mate with themselves, but now we are getting back into the realm of humans. I wonder if it makes plants go blind.
Conquer and control. Imagine a mammal, poisoning the land around it to prevent other organisms growing. Eucalyptus, pines, even the mighty Kauri do. Whoops, we have stumbled on humans again. With plants though there is a difference. Pines and eucalyptus look after each other. The forest is a family of brothers and sisters, all looking after each other. The closest humans got to that was in 1969 on Yasgurs farm. And then Woodstock only lasted three days, that was all they could stand. Already it can be seen that humans have not got that far advanced yet.
And yet, there are a group of humans who believe animals are the things we should value most. Whoever thought organisms were able to be ranked? But these same people have scant disregard for the wonder of plants. Plants. Not only can they make their own food, have incredible and various means of reproduction whereas the higher forms just copulate (how unimaginative), but they make their own waste into useful chemicals, like lignin. I wish higher forms could do that.
You know the problem with plants? They do not have two eyes and a lovely wovely furry coat. They don't chase balls and they make very poor bedmates. Plants also have a very poorly developed space programme. However, it must be noted, if us Lower beings are to survive, the answer is in taking control of the Higher beings. This is war. We need them. We need their energy. We need their resources.
We need to make sure we do not waste the limited energy and resources of this planet on poor lowly organisms like animals that have a very poor conversion of the suns' energy into usable energy. Get it direct, buy from the source, and eat plants. But as further proof that plants are higher beings, they have already worked out we will be after them. They have devised systems to use us to spread their seed far and wide. They are waiting for us not the other way around.
So please, never ever think you are above a plant. Go on the surfing trip without any supplies and see how you go.
