I have seen studies where plants do feel pain .... do militant veg heads ignore reality ???Plants are alive, they reproduce and grow ..... I suggest lizard tails because they grow back and they are "green" ......... yay I get the Noble Peace Prize for saving the Ozone from plant killers !!! yaY !!!!!
2007-10-22 07:49:16 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Because it makes them easier to eat.
If vegetarians admitted that plants are alive and feel pain and that they are killing to live, what would they eat?
It's just convenient.
2007-10-22 12:27:17 · answer #1 · answered by sarah s 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
My way of answering this is always: Yes, plants are technically living organisms, however when you kill a cow it reacts in a similar way as a human does. That being, it cries and resists when it is being tortured whereas a plant does not. Also animals that are killed for meat have much of the same anatomy and are significantly similar to humans, yet most carnivores would agree that they wouldn't eat a human. So why eat an animal? Therefore it is the fact that plants are not very similar to humans and don't react to pain the same way.
2016-05-24 18:30:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The response by Prodigy556 is excellent.
There is neither the evidence that plants feel pain nor the reason for them too.
In fact, plants are so different from animals, they are categorized in a totally different Kingdom of Life.
This is all basic middle school biology stuff.
2007-10-22 15:17:37 · answer #3 · answered by KuroNekko 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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?
It is said that plants might have something, such as a stress-avoidance response, but this in no way means that they feel "pain". It is illogical to equate this to the type of pain that is suffered by humans and animals. Nerve endings, hormones, a brain and other structures is what allows humans and animals to experience pain, plants have none of these. They are also rooted to one spot and cannot flee, thus there would be no point in them feeling pain. Pain is an evolutionary trait that tells something to flee in order to avoid injury or death.
It takes 10 times as many plants to feed an animal used for meat. Therefore people who argue plants feel pain should be for a vegetarian diet. As they are not just eating plants directly, but also killing(indirectly) the plants the animals ate. So, not only are they killing all those plants, but also causing suffering to the animals they eat.
The plants feel pain argument is 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.
Show me this science that plants feel pain, and not some article written by joe somebody, or one book written in 1975 by some lone scientist.
2007-10-22 08:21:29 · answer #4 · answered by Prodigy556 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because no one can hear them scream.
Yet it has been show the simple pain killers like aspirin bind to plant receptor sites and when under attack from planet eating insects they release a chemical that makes them taste foul.
In fact some of the worlds most well know pain killers are chemicals that come from plants.
2007-10-22 13:57:33 · answer #5 · answered by Mr Hex Vision 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Studies? Like university studies... or do you mean s*** you made up.
A virus reproduces... is it "alive"?
Your toenails grow... are they "alive"?
I don't think you'll ever get a Nobel Peace Prize (much less a Noble Peace Prize), but you just got a nomination for the Biggest D***** in the Universe Award.
2007-10-22 08:34:48 · answer #6 · answered by Divided By Zero 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You're misreading the studies.. Yes, plants react chemically to the environment around them, yes, even to the point of "warning" other plants that there's somethign wrong. THis does not mean they are concious or feeling pain.. It is a chemical reaction.
Without a central nervous system, or a brain to interpret "pain" The plant can NOT feel pain.
IT's simple biology..
2007-10-22 07:54:46 · answer #7 · answered by Shelly P. Tofu, E.M.T. 6 · 10⤊ 0⤋
They lack the nervous system required to feel pain. What are the studies that you are referring to? What do plants' abilities to reproduce and grow have to do with their abilities/inabilities to feel pain? What are you suggesting for lizard tails?
2007-10-22 07:57:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't.
Besides, I eat the plants. You eat the animal that eats 100x more of the plants than I do. You're still doing more damage. I win.
2007-10-22 10:59:42 · answer #9 · answered by Jessica 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They do feel pain. They need it to know when it's time to run away or scream for help.
Right?
Bacteria are alive and reproduce. Do they feel pain? You had better stop bathing and brushing your teeth so you don't hurt those poor micro-organisms.
2007-10-22 10:13:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
plants do all kinds of things to let us know they are ready to eat. bright colors, delicious smells, literally dropping their fruit where we can get to it. plants "want" to be eaten by animals such as ourselves.
what do animals do when we try to eat them? they run away! and we have to kill and cut and cook to make them even close to edible. plants are edible straight from the earth.
2007-10-22 11:30:10 · answer #11 · answered by woodpecker 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋