Don't say "No, because they would scream if they did." Vegetables do not have the proper organs or apparatus to vocalize a response. But scientists have done studies that seem to indicate that vegetables do 'scream' in a manner of speaking, when plucked from the ground.
2007-01-23 07:47:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Since I am not a vegetable, I can't answer for them.
But, Dr. Frank Dainello, Professor and Extension Vegetable Specialist, says:
It is doubtful that plants feel in the same manner as humans. It is true that they do not have a nervous system. However, they do respond to experienced stimuli. These responses are call tropisms.
Plants do respond to injury. When wounded, their respiration rate increases just as it does initially when humans are injured. However, the increase is due to an increase in the use of stored food reserves in an attempt to repair the damage or to grow new cells. If the injury is too severe, the physiological food-conversion responses are disrupted and death occurs.
A tomato is still alive when removed from the vine. Evidence for this is its ability to develop color. If it were in a state of panic due the trauma of being removed from the vine and the fear of being eaten, I would suspect it would refuse or be unable to continue to mature. It would probably just shrivel up and die, at least that would be the human reaction.
2007-01-23 07:50:22 · answer #1 · answered by Cister 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think tropism qualifies as a feeling. In order to feel pain, an organism must have a brain, a central nervous system, and nerve endings to deliver the message to the brain for processing. Certainly plants have an active stimulus-response system, but they lack the physiology that the experience of pain requires.
2007-01-23 07:59:50 · answer #2 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bible, mankind's original diet consisted of fruits, grains, and nuts, period. These are harvested at or near the end of their life cycle. But after our first parents were expelled from the garden of Eden vegetables were added to the diet. When you eat a potato or a carrot or any true vegetable you must kill the plant, or at least some of the leaves.
2007-01-24 01:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by Steve71 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh dont get me wrong i love plants, we need them. But if God put animals on this planet they need to eat plants, so the plants must be eaten. Im not a type of person who is disgusting and thinks all living things are just existing for human use (i heard many people say that, disgusting!) But a fact is animals need to eat, they cant photosynthesis and they need to eat those who do.
2007-01-23 10:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
it is mainly from chemical responses that a plant has and not feelings, even the venus fly trap does not have a nervous system it is all chemical and physical reactions
2007-01-23 09:43:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
yeah, i agree. Fruits on the other hand, when ripe fall to the ground and want to be eaten.
2007-01-23 07:53:45 · answer #6 · answered by kimme 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They supposedly do, and one can measure a change in electrical currents when they are cut of hit.
2007-01-23 08:15:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
uuh since they don't have a brain and central nervous system, they have no way to perceive pain...
2007-01-23 07:56:04 · answer #8 · answered by Kate 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't know. It would make since that anything that lives and dies could feel pain.
2007-01-23 08:00:37 · answer #9 · answered by fabulous 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋