Plants can feel pain?!! What do I do now?!
Plants can feel pain?!! What do I do now?
I've been vegetarian for most of my life because I felt eating meat involved senseless, painful killing...and now plants can feel pain?
Whatever am I to do?!
4 months ago
haha Becky...not ever going to be a fruititarian. That's just ridiculous and almost as weird as being a breatharian.
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4 months ago
haha Becky...not ever going to be a fruititarian. That's just ridiculous and almost as weird as being a breatharian.
Plants lack a nervous system, therefore they are incapable of feeling pain. You are safe with that one. Try not eating for 3 days and I think the screams of the little baby carrots will no longer matter.
Plants are living things just like animals. Humans need nutrition that comes from plants to live. Without the Human will die.
You can't compare the death of a plant to the death of an animal.Just like you can't compare the death of a human to the death of animal.Are you really a vegetarian?
I think this whole vegan/vegetarian thing can go too far. If plants really do feel pain (which I doubt), then what you going to eat rocks, dirt? come on-- and for that matter, what about the bacteria or other microbes in the dirt? they're alive too.
We have to eat to survive-- if you want to be vegan/veggie, fine but don't force it on everybody else.
Honor creation. Just the fact that you acknowledge the life of a plant is a beautiful thing!! Good for you!!
plants cant feel pain. Mythbusters settled that dispute once and for all. And stop being a vegetarian, seriously.
they cant feel pain, the don't have nerve system
plants cant feel pain...when you hear them sqweel or cry or oink when they are being plucked from their roots then you may think they can feel pain
Well they do feel a type of pain, its different from what we
understand of course.
They also know when you are about to cut them, and
have memory of Harm!
Read " The Secret Life of PLants"
Very provocative!
Well, what can you do? Eat rocks? You have no choice but to eat plants. Just remember that the production of meat kills way more plants than vegetarianism. I.E. when you eat meat, you not only contribute to the animal's suffering but also thousands of plants' suffering. Quantitatively, vegetarians kill fewer plants.
I want to know what uneducated moron gave me a thumbs down and explain why. Everything I said is 100% true.
they dont have nerves, they cant feel pain. Dont worry about it, and you can eat more mushrooms and protists like seeweed. But i think only animals have nerves.
Quick! Grow ten times more plants than you need and feed them to some animals! Then eat the animals!
Because plants don't feel pain when animals eat them. They only feel pain when humans eat them, silly.
Now I'm off to go eat a bacon double cheAAAARGH MY HEART
is that supposed to be a serious question?
Whoever told you that plants can feel pain was just trying to confuse you.
Plants don'y have a central nervous system, unlike animals. If an organism is lacking a central nervous system, they can't feel pain.
Otherwise we might have some really bad karma.
You could become fruitarian and eat only the fruit of plants, things that aren't actually part of the organism but are dropped off at a certain point anyway. The purpose of fruit is to spread the seeds of the plant so you could even help the plant in its goal by planting the seeds after you eat the fruit.
well we are all living organism and we all feel pain or changes or metamorphosis in different ways. The only thing to know is that in the food chain it works like that some have to eat the other one to survive and so on and so forth and its all a big wheel of life
Central nervous system = pain
Limbic area of the brain = fear, sorrow
I could think you are this gullible... but I bet you are not a vegetarian at all. Perhaps passive-aggressively posting another anti-vegetarian question.
In case you are a vegetarian, please see the first two lines.
:)
you do know that you have to eat something?
you need to go to a doctor and ask for help.
and fast!
Plants are alive and do respond to light and water, but they don’t feel pain. The ability to feel pain requires a brain, a central nervous system, and pain receptors. All animals have these things. Plants do not.
We all understand that there is a fundamental difference between cutting your lawn and cutting off a cat’s tail and between breaking up a head of lettuce and bashing in a dog’s head. Animals are made of flesh, bones, blood, and fat, just as we are. They feel pain, just as we do.