(Chinese) Vegetables also have consciousness, but that consciousness is very, very little. Humans have the highest consciousness. The next is big animals, and then smaller ones. Therefore, killing humans are the biggest crime. The greater consciousness of beings you kill, the greater karma and sin you will have. Eighty or ninety percent of the plants or vegetables is made up of water and with very little consciousness. They will not suffer so much as humans, big and small animals, therefore, one does not commit so ...