I think that for vegans, "sentience" is a meaningless woo-woo word, like when a Christian talks about immortal souls. They use it because its origin in science fiction gives it the veneer of empiricism, but its all hollow with subjectivity.

Though it's been 10 or 15 years, Wikipedia used to have a page that listed 6 criteria for biological life (but it became politically inconvenient). The same ones we all used to learn in school. One of them was "responds to stimuli"...

If there is an objective definition of "sentience", then the only one I've ever heard is "responds to stimuli". Which plants (and even the most primitive unicellular organisms) meet. And if "sentience" doesn't mean this, then I challenge anyone to come up with another better one.

So, to make a long story short, I like eating sentient things, and I'm not ever going to stop. And it tastes even better when it seems to cause distress to vegans.

> And it tastes even better when it seems to cause distress to vegans.

Odd flex. Try not to worry so much about what other people think of you. It'll make you a better human.