I am a vegetarian, so I do differentiate between rabbits and carrots, I eat the one that doesn't run.
To be consistent, I'd have to avoid the lobster and eat the life of the mussel.
Yet, though mussels can't flee, they do hide.

I won't swat a mosquito but accept my wife's killing of cockroaches.
All life is sentient, but not all life-forms have the means to express (make obvious) that inner awareness.
Science reveals that plants, non-moving, locked to one place do 'pull-back from' negative stimulus.
Radishes are silent, but trees rustle in the wind.