Do plants feel pain?

Question

Please support your answer. Thanks.

Answer 1

no, they dont have a brain, or a nervous system.

Answer 2

I once saw bizzare video in biology about how this scientist claims plants repond to other plants getting 'hurt'. It was a hoax though.
I'm sure plants respond to physical damage in some way, but I can't imagine how someone can prove plant 'feel' pain.

Answer 3

All those videos about plants feel pain are entirely fake.

Answer 4

They don't have the complex nerve system that animals have. If you give an electric shock to a plant, nothing happens, do it to any living animal and see the reaction.

Answer 5

Why would anyone try to inflict pain in another living organism? Plants probably can not feel pain the same way more complex life forms do but that doesn't mean that you can cut them or burn them just for the heck of it. Respect for life, what ever its manifestation, may help us deserve the gift of Planet Earth. A person that thinks nothing of killing or inflicting pain in an animal or a plant is a sick person. Unfortunately the world is full of them, they are the ones that inhabit prison cells, the ones the police runs after, the ones the Armed Forces go against.
Respect for life, any life, is another way of Peace.

Answer 6

I think they can and I think I read somewhere they do feel things but not in the same way creatures with a nervous system do.

Answer 7

In a biochemical sense, no - they have no nerve system. Some very "green" thinkers think there is a spiritual connection, but that has yet to be scientifically proven.

Answer 8

Yes, they do.

Scientists have watched the very faint chemical interactions inside plants while subjecting them to stress - for instance, tattering their leaves or some other type of "pain"-inducing action.

Curiously, plants begin to release ethylene, which is almost alcoholic in nature and subdues and decreases "stress", as it was deduced by researchers.

I read about this on this page, http://www.islamicconcern.com/plants.asp, it's an Islamic website, the author is obviously biased and does not validate this research, but this is the most intelligently written report I could find in a very quick search engine sweep. But let it be known there's actual, valid scientific research behind this.

Plants do not have nervous systems but their cells are structured like some simpler living creatures, and when poking and prodding plant cells under plants it has been noted that they recoil from needles and seem to move very slightly and "live" in their own way, eating and making waste and have organs of a sort.

Plants do not have any way to express pain, but they have always expressed a willpower and desire to life. Flowers have angled their stems and grown around walls to reach sunlight, defying physics and gravity. Though they cannot get up and move they will grow in a way to make themselves get food - is that not in a way a very, very primitive form of instinct, which in animals we give the honor of being called "thought"? Something only humans truly have, per se?

I'm just waiting for a PETA organization that's aniti-plant as well. People will simply eat chemicals or something.

Answer 9

No they dont have because of the absence of the nervous system

Answer 10

no but it responds by making resin to heal itself.