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Plants are living organisms, with some level of sentient capacity, fulfilling all the criteria necessary to call them alive, such as respiration, movement, and crying out in pain when they are injured.
Until you chop them to bits and cook them, of course.

Philosophically, animals are only alive if you don't put them in a box with a radioactive isotope. If you do that who knows what state they are in?

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