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The "plants feel pain"
take pisses me off the most. The scorched-earth argument really goes places: "if plants feel pain, then any amount of pain inflicted is now okay!" 
My favourite is when someone told me that cows explode if they're not milked and they were being 100% serious
To be fair it's an exaggeration but based in truth - although of course it's a result of selectively breeding dairy cows and removing the calf, so as an argument against veganism it's somewhat self defeating
But yeah not milking a dairy cow will result in excessive pressure in the udders, which causes pain, infections, and sometimes the rupturing of the udder which i assume is where the 'explodes' comes from