Who is to say a plant does or doesn’t like getting ripped apart either? You can take this logic further and realize its all just culural biases. Life is life at the cellular level, we all have mitochondria and similar fundamental metabolisms. Yet when those cells become a complex organism we start to get a sense of bias toward complex life. Even more so when we start considering concious thought. All that being said its still just bias towards one specific niche of life, that of a multicellular organism with a human centric definition of thought or consciousness. I’m sure many a vegetarians still swat at flies without considering how ironic that is.