Why I am not a vegan

[Minyatur]

But this gives much thought about Buddhism which considers that animals are not sentient beings....  LOL

Where did you get that from?

I googled because found that strange, but the wikipedia page on Animals in Buddhism says the opposite:

Animals have always been regarded in Buddhist thought as sentient beings. Furthermore, animals possess Buddha nature (according to the Mahāyāna school) and therefore potential for enlightenment. Moreover, the doctrine of rebirth held that any human could be reborn as animal, and any animal could be reborn as a human. An animal might be a reborn dead relative, and anybody who looked far enough back through their series of lives might come to believe every animal to be a distant relative. The Buddha expounded that sentient beings currently living in the animal realm have been our mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, children, friends in past rebirths. One could not, therefore, make a hard distinction between moral rules applicable to animals and those applicable to humans; ultimately humans and animals were part of a single family. They are all interconnected.

I know there are many branches to Buddhism, so maybe that is a specific one with those beliefs of animals not being sentient?

Seems like there are even branches of Buddhism (like Tibetan) that consider that some inanimate objects can be sentient, which is in line with what Ra said that in rare circumstances even minerals can reach harvestability for 3D.