Plants can feel pain?!! What do I do now?

Question

I've been vegetarian for most of my life because I felt eating meat involved senseless, painful killing...and now plants can feel pain?

Whatever am I to do?!

haha Becky...not ever going to be a fruititarian. That's just ridiculous and almost as weird as being a breatharian.

Answer 1

Plants lack a nervous system, therefore they are incapable of feeling pain. You are safe with that one. Try not eating for 3 days and I think the screams of the little baby carrots will no longer matter.

Answer 2

You could become fruitarian and eat only the fruit of plants, things that aren't actually part of the organism but are dropped off at a certain point anyway. The purpose of fruit is to spread the seeds of the plant so you could even help the plant in its goal by planting the seeds after you eat the fruit.

Answer 3

Well, what can you do? Eat rocks? You have no choice but to eat plants. Just remember that the production of meat kills way more plants than vegetarianism. I.E. when you eat meat, you not only contribute to the animal's suffering but also thousands of plants' suffering. Quantitatively, vegetarians kill fewer plants.

I want to know what uneducated moron gave me a thumbs down and explain why. Everything I said is 100% true.

Answer 4

Plants are alive and do respond to light and water, but they don’t feel pain. The ability to feel pain requires a brain, a central nervous system, and pain receptors. All animals have these things. Plants do not.

We all understand that there is a fundamental difference between cutting your lawn and cutting off a cat’s tail and between breaking up a head of lettuce and bashing in a dog’s head. Animals are made of flesh, bones, blood, and fat, just as we are. They feel pain, just as we do.

Answer 5

Whoever told you that plants can feel pain was just trying to confuse you.

Plants don'y have a central nervous system, unlike animals. If an organism is lacking a central nervous system, they can't feel pain.

Otherwise we might have some really bad karma.

Answer 6

Quick! Grow ten times more plants than you need and feed them to some animals! Then eat the animals!

Because plants don't feel pain when animals eat them. They only feel pain when humans eat them, silly.

Now I'm off to go eat a bacon double cheAAAARGH MY HEART

Answer 7

well we are all living organism and we all feel pain or changes or metamorphosis in different ways. The only thing to know is that in the food chain it works like that some have to eat the other one to survive and so on and so forth and its all a big wheel of life

Answer 8

Fruitarian. eating what flora freely "supply" in line with evolutionary trait, to delay their species (culmination, vine vegetables, nuts, etc.) That being reported... maximum flora do certainly "intend" to be eaten to a pair degree. Apple timber does not exist were it not for a sweet, nutrition-wealthy fruit it quite is pleasing to animals. Animals devour the fruit, and carry the seeds to be deposited elsewhere, prolonging the species. Many lettuce or leafy sorts of flora have greater evolutionarily to prefer to be eaten... not purely to stay clear of overgrowth, yet as well to move "cuttings" (i.e. small dropped products of leaf/stem) to spring forth an entirely new plant. maximum plant-existence calls for the intervention of different species' to proceed to exist. it should be counter to their personal evolutionary objectives for those food flora to advance any type of discomfort or "stay to stay" mechanisms even as it may oppose their organic and organic technique of reproduction/procreation.

Answer 9

Plants are living things just like animals. Humans need nutrition that comes from plants to live. Without the Human will die.

Answer 10

Central nervous system = pain
Limbic area of the brain = fear, sorrow

I could think you are this gullible... but I bet you are not a vegetarian at all. Perhaps passive-aggressively posting another anti-vegetarian question.

In case you are a vegetarian, please see the first two lines.

:)