If a plant gets DAMAGED, does it feel PAIN?

Answer 1

No because plants have no nervous system, neither do they have a brain in which to feel pain.

Answer 2

Well plants have nervous systems that aren't very sophisticated. Plants,( considering their wiring is still much more advanced than the average Jellyfish, or sponge), probably feel some stimulus with a negative effect, a stimulus that very clearly indicates physical damage. Whether this serves to "hurt" the plant,(that is cause it gratuitous pain, and fear), is probably not the case. If however you re-define pain to be the perception of negative stimuli, then yes, you could say plants get hurt.

Answer 3

Plants do have all kinds of responses to stimuli, but they don't appear to have a nervous system that would allow them to feel pain. Plants release hormones when they are damaged that promote healing of the damaged area. Those hormones also promote ripening of fruit. So they do respond to damage, but they don't show signs of pain.

The reality is that we have to eat something. We know for certain that animals like chickens, fish and pigs, do suffer when we eat them - they have nervous systems and respond to pain stimuli the exact same way that we do.

We aren't sure about plants, but since we must eat something, it's most humane to choose plants.

Answer 4

well if you can transplant nerves and a brain from a mouse or rat into a plant and somehow make that insidious experiment work than by god call the AmA(the amercan medical association)..otherwise a plant might feel pain when really stupid and dull people tell them some droll stories while playing some American Idol BS in the background. that might certainly bring the pain, it works for me...

Answer 5

yes, plants also feels pain.
according to the great indian scientist "JAGADISH CHANDRA BASU" , plants are a living being and possess all the features of life like growth, reproduction, mortality and so on. but they do it in different ways just differ from the moving creatures . but they also feel pain when hurted, it cann't be hear through the normal ears, it needs instruments.
and the jagadish basu at first showed the feelings of the plants using projectors.

Answer 6

plants cannot "feel" anything. Feeling is a human label. They "React" chemically to the events in their enviroment. When cut they secrete a pharamone to warn other plants of danger. You will notice other plants around them will actually "shrink" in to protect the outer branches.

Answer 7

I'm pretty sure plants don't have nerve cells (unless my science teacher lied)

and its nerve cells that sense or "feel" pain so I would have to say no

Answer 8

No, because plants don't have a nervous system. (So they don't have "sensors" to feel the pain)

Answer 9

bigbluesky is right, no nervous system. Although it might go through something like pain as the internal corrections systems it does have sense something is amiss.

Answer 10

maybe, but not the same way you do, they don't have a nervous system like you

that doesn't mean a plant doesn't have some type of conciousness, this we do not know