If plants have no thoughts or feelings...?

Question

Then why is it that any green thumb will tell you that talking to their plants improves the plant's health and growth? Just because something can't move easily on its own, what makes you think that it doesn't feel pain? Just because it can't cry out, what makes you think it isn't crying on the inside?

Oh, and before you go on and on about "killing a chicken and then plucking a plant, and see which bothers you more," I've killed lots of chickens. Doesn't bother me a bit, especially when it comes out of the oven.

Elaine, the plants aren't going to get anymore CO2 from me than is already floating around. Try again.

Not to mention they can only absorb so much at one time... so even if I breathed big gulping breaths at them they wouldn't be able to take any more in than usual.

Anti-meateaters... Yeah, I've kind of noticed that about your ilk.

Aladdin, do you not realize that there are different levels of conciousness than the human mind is capable of? Just because a plant doesn't have nerves doesn't mean it doesn't think in its own way. That's kind of arrogant on your part, thinking that you're the only one with feelings, eh?

Oh, and I don't have a problem killing plants. I'm just addressing what seems a hypocrisy to me.

Pinky... awesome... I think you gave me an idea of what to do with all my boogers... and those kids that keep skateboarding in front of my house.

Aladdin, I didn't tell that cow he should eat all those plants. He can eat other cows if he wants to.

Wonderment... actually, plants do eat animals. After they're dead and gone... or after the person that consumes them spreads their rancid feces all over a farmer's field.

Answer 1

sounds like a bunch of sour grapes to me .

Answer 2

Plants have no brain... they can't be aware of themselves.
Plants also have no nervous system or nerves... that is what lets us feel pain...

And if you are against killing plants, then maybe you should consider going vegan ... vegans kill less plants directly than meat-eaters kill indirectly...
What do you think the cow ate before you ate the cow?... Plants... now just think of how many plants were killed to feed that cow, compare it to the amount of plants in my salad... Big difference…

Edit: Yes I realize that there are different levels of consciousness in humans... and other animals... but with the absence of a brain, it's hard to imagine how a plant could possibly process the feeling of pain or suffering.

Now, lets say that somehow the plants could experience some level of suffering, like I said before, vegetarians kill less plants than meat-eaters do.

And There is a big difference between exploiting and abusing animals for us to consume and eating a carrot.

Answer 3

Not sure what you're asking about. Plants are the most basic form of food on the Earth. Without plants there wouldn't be much of anything. Plants take the energy from the sun and convert it into energy that other organic life can utilize.

All other life only exists from what is on Earth, so eventually it would all be gone if there wasn't something that could convert sun into usable energy. Animals cannot do this.

Answer 4

Plants feel pain now? Kind of grasping at straws aren't we? Did you fall asleep during in the third grade when they did the unit on nervous systems?

Plants might have a stress-avoidance response, but it is quite a stretch to refer to this as “pain.” It is even more erroneous to equate this response with the pain suffered by animals and human beings. Plants lack nerve endings, brains, hormones, and other structures that would allow them to experience pain. They also lack the ability to move away from sources of stress, an evolutionary trait linked with the ability to feel pain.

Even those who argue that plants feel pain and suffer should support a vegetarian diet because the number of plants that must be fed to an animal to produce enough meat for one human is greater than the number of plants required to feed that same human if he or she ate the plants directly. Meat-eaters are responsible for “killing” 10 times more plants than vegetarians, and they also kill and cause suffering to animals.

The argument that plants feel pain and suffer and that killing them is as bad as killing animals is weak and illogical. Those who use this argument to justify their continued consumption of meat should attempt to approach the debate in a more logical, scientific manner.

Just another false argument made by people who eat meat in order to justify what they do. This always amazes me, they say that they do not feel bad about eating animals yet they are always trying to justify why they eat the way they do.

Answer 5

It's the vibrations from the sound that improve the plants growth.Pain is felt by nerves,plants don't have nerves.

Answer 6

seriously, how many times do we have to deal with this argument? what is the point of coming into the v&v section and asking us these questions? you don't really want an answer... if you like meat, then yaay, you like meat! good for you! just leave us alone, and we'll leave you the hell alone. it's not going to convince us or make us change what we already believe in, so let it rest!

plants are not sentient beings... they do not have a central nervous system. it is living and can respond to certain stimuli, but it cannot feel pain.

Answer 7

Well your not going find a vegan or vegertian to admit this but technically, meat is just a bunch of cells, as plants have a bunch of cells. When you eat plants, you are killing them(except there not cute). I don't think actually a point to posting question in this section your aren't going really find any intelligent or knowledgeable answers. Most vegans or vegetarians aren't interested and have knowledge of biology, environmental or really zoology. There respond going usually be based entirely on emotions with few bad untrustworthy sources and horrible peta proof. Let just them be 30-40 years down line they really aren't going be around anyways.

Answer 8

It is a reproductive strategy for plants to have other species eat them. In other words, if they could want anything, it would be for you to eat their fruit and spread their seeds.

It works in quite the opposite manner for mammals, birds and sea creatures.

Answer 9

When you talk to a plant, you emit carbon dioxide on which plants thrive. You can quote Shakespeare or just babble; it's all the same to a plant.

Answer 10

There is no proof to disprove your theory or help that of a vegetarians because ys, that may be egotistical of us, but have you thought about the idea that makes your theory of hipocracy in animals vs plants that animals eat plants and grains to survive, something we can eat too? I don't see plants returning that favor to animals.