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As we all know no scientific study has yet proved that plants can feel pain , but this doesn't mean they don't .
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It's impossible for plants to suffer because it's impossible for them to be conscious. Consciousness is a function of the brain, which plants do not have. Similarly, the cells in your body "communicate" with one another, "cooperate" to perform certain tasks, "respond" to stimuli, yet they are not conscious.
Even if plants were sentient creatures worthy of moral consideration, veganism would still be the more compassionate option. It takes a great many plant deaths to raise an animal for slaughter, plus the animal's death. It would require fewer plants to simply eat plants directly. |
I have long been puzzled by claims that plants feel pain. Like other contributors to this thread, I think there might be an important difference between biochemical events, and the consciousness of these. The reason that, so far, I beleive that plants do not experience pain is that one of the primary functions of pain experience in animals is to provoke speedy aversive behaviour - to get away from the cause of pain smartly. Now plants can move, but, with the exception of carnivorous plants, they do so very slowly...so slowly that it seems unlikely that a pain experience can be performing it's function. In fact, I wonder, what would be the function of pain experience in plants?
But I am no scientist. I'd like my opinion on this to be more informed, if others know more. |
........As we all know no scientific study has yet proved that plants can feel pain , but this doesn't mean they don't . There are plenty of parasites who stick to living plants and live off of them . Those parasites use painkiller substances so the plant will never notice they are being slowly sucked to death . what does it meant ?
if parasites are forced to use painkiller this mean that some , not all probably but some do actually feel pain . |
I have long been puzzled by claims that plants feel pain. Like other contributors to this thread, I think there might be an important difference between biochemical events, and the consciousness of these. The reason that, so far, I beleive that plants do not experience pain is that one of the primary functions of pain experience in animals is to provoke speedy aversive behaviour - to get away from the cause of pain smartly. Now plants can move, but, with the exception of carnivorous plants, they do so very slowly...so slowly that it seems unlikely that a pain experience can be performing it's function. In fact, I wonder, what would be the function of pain experience in plants?
But I am no scientist. I'd like my opinion on this to be more informed, if others know more. |
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