Is it true that plants cry and feel much pain while being cut ?

Answer 1

although tests have shown that plants do have reactions to such things it can only be imagined as to being anything like crying or what we describe as pain !
the structure, chemistry and systems of plants are too different from those of animals to be able to compare

Answer 2

Hello =)

OOOh boy....

From a biological point of view, I don't think that plants are capable of "feeling" pain in the same way that we are, at all....

Having said that, I do believe that plants "suffer" ....and sometimes, especially trees, suffer greatly....

No, I am not a whacked-out tree hugger...LOL

It is based upon this simple premise:

Plants, like single-celled animal life, have the capacity to move towards what is beneficial to them, and move away from what is not...

For example....if you placed fertilizer and water somewhere in the vicinity of a plant's root system, it would grow more roots on the side of the fertilizer, and actually try to "shift" its center towards the fertilizer and water source.

If, on the other hand, you placed something toxic, like an herbicide into the soil, you would find that the plant does just the opposite, and allows its roots on that side to die, growing roots on the opposing side, and trying to shift its "center" away from the poison.

This, to me, shows that plants have a very "simple" sort of consciousness, or at least an overall ability to recognize simple "pleasure" and 'pain'......

Trees, on the other hand, because of their mass, and wooden skeleton, do not have such an easy time moving out of the way of harm. Thus, it is my belief that when we do things around trees that is harmful to them, they suffer badly.

This has been the focus of much meditation and discussion among Buddhists for 2500 years, and while the general attitude is that plants are not capable of suffering, there have always been those who disagree. I am one of those. Thus, it is not appropriate, I think, to say that it is "morally preferable" to be a vegetarian over a carnivore. It is merely that, with the exception of dairy foods (and even then we kill of micro-organisms), it is not possible to eat anything, without taking life, and causing suffering.

This is true of all living things, not just humans.

Namaste, and Happy New Year,

--Tom

Answer 3

I haven't seen a nerve in a plant.. EVER! nor have I seen tear glands.. No pain, no cry.. (didn't Bob Marley write that??)

Plants aren't animals.. they're an entirely different organism than animals.

I wonder if plants think about us along those lines?? Is your African violet considering your being right now? Hmm.. how can humans survive without photosynthesis?? Why don't animals have roots???

Answer 4

the typical hypocrisy argument looks in many varieties. a common variety is as follows: "that's hypocritical to declare rights for a cow yet no longer for a plant; consequently, cows can not have rights." it would be hypocritical IF the comparable standards or morally correct attributes that are used to justify animal rights additionally utilized to flowers. the factors stated by utilising the AR pass are "soreness and suffering" and being "matters-of-a-existence". An assessment of ways flowers degree as much as those standards finally ends up contained in here conclusions. First, our suited technology as much as now shows that flowers lack any semblance of an considerable fearful gadget or the different gadget layout for such complicated capacities as that of conscious tormented by felt soreness. 2nd, flowers in simple terms have not have been given any evolutionary could desire to experience soreness. Animals being cellular might earnings from the skill to experience soreness; flowers would not. Nature would not gratuitously create such complicated capacities as that of feeling soreness except there is a few earnings for the organism's survival. in case you nevertheless insist that plant additionally posses existence, then that's actual. As God commanded the adam/eve, the subsequent evolution to be FRUITARIAN is already been established and easily VEG*ANs are there to persist with you!

Answer 5

Hi Deepu, Yes they do. Just think about being cut down to size for a flower arrangement. That would hurt like hell. They do scream out in pain,but we cannot hear their pain. What do you think the clear stuff that comes out threw their sterms is? It's their blood. Of course it's alot different from us. They are from the plant family,and we are human. Yes, this is true.

Clowmy

Answer 6

That is mostly new-age hokum. They cannot sense things or feel pain in the same way that humans do. They likely can, as an organism, sense when they have been cut, but to say that their is an equivilant feeling of pain in a plant to that which is felt be animals is folly.

Answer 7

i have always been surrounded by plants ,havent heard one cry in 70 years ,assuming they do feel pain ,like all living things ,then i think like other living things they have learnt to live or deal with pain,how come they thrive so well after pruning ,in fact we see a spurt of energy in blooms like roses.Why do topiaries look so good after such extensive shaping ,if they do suffer pain,they soon forget about it,by the look of things.

Answer 8

Hi Deepu,
Yes, plants do cry, and they do feel pain. Plants think, anticipate pain and fear it, and they fear death and plants communicate with humans--for scientific research and documentation of the above please refer to a book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird--"The Secret Life of Plants, Harper & Row, Publishers."

Answer 9

to feel pain you must have pain receptors, a type of specialized cell in animal biology. plant biology does not have this cell. the hippies above me need to go chain themselves to a tree in a forest somewhere to make sure it doesnt get "hurt".

Answer 10

In My Opinion i would assume they feel pain as living things do, its part of life.