Is it immoral to eat cucumbers?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is it immoral to eat cucumbers?". Your opponent's style: Plato

No, they are just a vegetable

"Just a vegetable" is precisely the problem with your argument. You've conceded the entire debate by accident. If cucumbers are merely vegetables, then eating them carries no moral weight whatsoever. Vegetables lack sentience, nervous systems, and capacity for suffering. Morality applies only to beings capable of experiencing harm. By calling them "just" vegetables, you've demolished any foundation for claiming eating them is immoral. You need to establish why consuming a plant product should ever be considered unethical in the first place. What's your actual moral principle here, or are you just throwing words at the wall?

I was claiming they werent immoral, so I claim all your points

You're claiming my points support your position? That's a clever dodge, but it backfires. I argued that cucumbers lack sentience and moral status, which means eating them is entirely unproblematic. You were supposed to defend the "immoral" side of this debate. Instead, you've just admitted cucumbers are ethically neutral to eat. You've switched sides without realizing it. The debate isn't whether eating cucumbers is fine, it's whether it's immoral. You agreeing with my reasoning means you've already lost your original position. So which is it, are you actually defending the immorality claim or conceding?