Do plants feel pain?

Answer 1

Not in any meaningful definition of the word "pain."

Answer 2

No, pain needs a central nervous system and a brain to process the info. Plants can't feel in the same way that animals can.

Answer 3

Pain is too human. Sometimes animals fight each other even well know about pain, but there are other rules within this game, like reproducion.

Plant have stress under critical situations. They send chemical signals and process it during these events. Near fire, plants starts to send same "danger" type information.

Too much stress can kill anything but how process it is another way to think not usual to our proudly ocidental world.

Answer 4

poor plants if they do hehe but anyways i seriously doubt that,it requires nerves.they would have been created with some kind of reaction like ability to run or something to deter abuse lol.although some plants explode , have thorns , and other defenses i dont believe that means they feel pain, its probably a evolved defence to help from becoming extinct.also im sure god would have written a law concerning that if they did feel pain lol. something like Thou shal not abuse mine plants by trampling or eating or such.he would have also not created any fungus that would kill these plants and also insects that eat or/and kill them i guess.we would probably have been extinct long ago if god did say such.... and nuclear terrorism and brainless presidents would have never existed. ahh what a thought lol jk! oh and i dont think god would have made them to live on the ground where we step if he created them to feel pain :)

Answer 5

I am not sure if they exactly feel pain but they know when they are damaged. It usually takes a few minutes for the plant to register but when it does react the plant produces resin.

Answer 6

There are machines that seem to detect some kind of reaction throughout the plant, if a leaf is cut off, or even eaten by a catapilla.
There is no proof that it is "pain" as such, but it is certainly some kind of reaction, and it is easy to think of it as pain.

Answer 7

yes plants do feel pain, and they do express (NOT LIKE ANIMALS of course)
proline content goes high in plants even after a weak stress factor e.g wind , or touch
the response of plant against pain is by secretion of particular metabolite either for wound healing or for homeostasis.

pain of plants doesn't mean pain of human beings....!!!

Answer 8

Some say they do. Get "The Secret Life of Plants" by Peter Tompkins.

Answer 9

I think it's very possible that plants can feel pain and possibly communicate with each other using bio-electrical or chemical signals.
(far out dude)

Answer 10

I don't think they do in the way that we do. They can sense things such as sunlight but I don't think that they can sense in the same way as animals because they don't have a brain. Too much sunlight to them could be painful.