If scientists proved plants feel pain, what would vegans have left to eat ?

Answer 1

They'd have to become fruitarians (fruit die naturally, by falling off trees, don't they?). I remember seeing an interesting article about plants feeling pain on Wikipedia: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/plant_perception

Answer 2

Scientists have yet to prove vegetables can feel pain when harvested. Forget the scientists, a simple experiment is to sever a cucumber or a tomato from its creeper, neither the cucumber, the tomato or the creeper will feel the pain.The creeper will not die, it will continue to bear more fruits. Cut a spinach plant, leaving the bottom stem, it WILL grow. The same CANNOT be applied to a chicken, sheep, goat, cow, pig or any other animal. They either scream in pain, suffer or even die. Can you cut and eat some part of the chicken or sheep or goat or cow or pig and leave the balance to live and grow? The answer is NO. This is based on the divine Hindu principle of Ahimsa.

Answer 3

Vegetables of course!

First of all, to feel pain, the organism in question will need a nervous system & a brain. & I haven't been able to find brains in my brocolli or spinach so far.

Secondly, even if it is eventually proven that plants feel pain, It is still more environmentally friendly to eat plants considering the massive amounts of waste produced by the meat production process. Not to mention the amount of grain that we could save and redirect to the 1 billion starving people in the world.

Trivia: the grain production in the world today is enough to providen each human being with 3000 calories a day! But most of the grain grown is directed to raising animals for meat consumption instead.

Answer 4

Going against nature? you're additionally going against nature by using not $hitting on the streets, utilising a shampoo and shaving. good success including your quest of unlikely against nature. i've got studied neurology and different understanding appropriate disciplines for years and you are going to be thoroughly clueless to declare that there is information that flowers make alternatives and experience soreness. you is additionally thoroughly clueless in fields that cope with feeling and emotion, evolution of them and many greater issues! So biology oftentimes. Congrats! i might nonetheless not devour animals if this thoroughly impossible and illogical theory proved to be actual in some parallel universe, that basically exists on your fantasy, because of the fact transforming into flowers will possibly on no account pollute the atmosphere and waste lots ingesting water as transforming into animals does. Water isn't an limitless source and that i might like to stay long sufficient to verify that is scarcity start up and human beings such as you run around screaming that ''that is all organic, those hamburgers have been completely properly worth it!''

Answer 5

What about the vegans who are vegans because of health and environmental reasons? Plus do you know how many plants have to die to make 1 cow? we are talking thousands or more! I would rather kill less life forms and be vegan..

Sorry just ahd to say that, even though I am a Vegetarian.
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Answer 6

This type of question is really old and meaningless. Plants don't have brains or nervous systems and hence don't feel emotions. This sort of question is thought up by meat eaters trying to justify to themselves why everyone should eat meat - but there's no "should" for anybody. Everyone's different and has different values in life.

Answer 7

We would still eat plants and we would still have the ethical advantage. When you eat a pound of beef, you're responsible for the deaths of hundred of plants that went into the making of that meat. Add that onto the ethics of killing the cow.

Answer 8

Then it would be necessary to eat a sentient "creature" unlike now so they'd probably still eat plants so they wouldn't starve (instead of animals) because if they ate animals they'd have to feed them plants to keep them alive and so many more plants and animals would have to die. They still wouldn't eat meat because the more lives you can save the better!

Answer 9

FYI,you are like the 50th person to ask this.vegans don't eat animal products or animals.do you step on grass?then you are hurting it.you would never say plants have feelings because that is so ridiculous,but when it comes to defending eating meat you only reach for such a radical argument.Plants don't have feeling.

Answer 10

Vegans are vegans for their own reasons. By that thinking, if you could sneak up on a cow and dispatch it without pain then a vegan could eat the cow.

By the same logic, if you torture a carrot before eviscerating it, a vegan could not eat it.

Do you actually know any vegans? I know I don't. I feel if we do not eat cows that they will take over the world and we will be enslaved to serve them.