Vegetarians, doesn't it hurt plants too when u tear them out of the ground and kill them to eat?

Question

Don't u feel sorry for plants or only animals have sympathy from u?

how do u know plants don't have feeling, they are living too!

we base our sympathy for animals on how imagine we would feel in that situation more than anything. Don't u think that a silent death that plants endure is even more cruel?

in response to j_emmans: plants don't grow back well, they grow back more to compensate for what they lost and maybe by growing more may survive better next time (just like shaving hair, it grows back more and bushier)

why do we have feeling? because sensors are stimulated and send impulses to the brain that's all. Just because the plant may not actually feel it, it is still being KILLED and u just worry about pain. Life is precious so y don't u feel sorry for those poor plants who's life is being taken away. Plus u shouldn't kill poor mosquitos that just want to bite u to satisfy their need for energy. After all their life is precious. So what if u get malaria, a poor mosquito needs to live.

More plants are needed to satisfy energy requirements of top predators. would u rather kill thousands of poor plants or a few hundred cows, to satisfy our energy needs. Also most animals that just eat plants spend all day grazing to meet their energy needs. Do u want to do that too?

The whole point for this question is for those ppl that pester animal eaters about the ethnicity of killing animals, I pointed out the fact that plants also are living things!!! I'm not arguing that we should eat animals (retaliation to the w**ker that called me an idiot) , i'm just saying plants also need to be considered. And if u feel so strongly about babies, then plants also have babies.....seeds!! Just admit to the fact that just because animals move and make more noise when killed u feel more sympathy for them than plants that don't make even a squeal.

Answer 1

I know how we can solve this. Those who are THAT concerned about hurting living things can eat lead. Everyone else can eat real food.

Answer 2

Well, I'm not vegan because I love animals but because I hate plants. /sarcasm

You do know that you flesh-eaters are killing far more plants by eating animals, don't you? I mean, the corpses you eat have to eat SOMETHING, right? And it's PLANTS. And it's far more plants than a vegan will eat.

And if you cannot tell the difference between a carrot and a cow, you need to go back to middle school and take a few biology courses so you can tell the difference between a PLANT and an ANIMAL.

Thank you and good night.

Answer 3

You are making a massive assumption that Vegetarians are all ethically based eaters. Many Vegetarians are that way for health reasons - vegetarians live longer.
The Question is very wrong in the fact plants do not feel pain, just like some animals. They have no nervous system.
The laws of nature show us also that the food chain exists and plants are eaten by animals to live they have been eaten by animals since time began and some plants live well if regularly eaten back.

Answer 4

I base my ideas on what I know about neural connections & nocireceptors among other things. Plants do not feel pain. Also, I, as a vegetarian, am only concerned that I don't eat things from animalia. I have no quams about nourishment coming from plantae.
Your rantings carry no weight to anyone with a scientific background. You are choosing to plea ignorance and, quite frankly, your knowledge on this subject has been found lacking.

Answer 5

Hey let's not be fanatic. Otherwise we'll just all die. Plants don't scream or try to run away in fear when we try to cut them up. In fact when you cut a plant they sprout more...when we pick fruits from the tree more fruits will bear next year..Yes they may hurt a bit but they will grow again..If you cut off a cow's head will another head grow? Be logical...god gave us plants and vegetables for out enjoyment and consumptions and animals to befriend us...we don't want to eat our friends do we?

Answer 6

I am a vegetarian and I have asked similar questions myself, in some ways we are crueller to vegetables than meat eaters are to animals, we cook vegetables alive, we eat some alive.

No I don't feel guilty about it, and no I don't have a go at people who eat meat and fish, my decision to be a vegetarian, is my choice, it is not having a go at anyone elses choice.

The book The secret life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird makes these claims:-
A plant attached to a lie detector reacted violently when an expert thought about burning one of its leaves.
A chemist became so attuned to his house plants that they reacted excitedly when he made love to his girlfriend eighty miles away.

Plants are not animals, but as you say they are alive, they may have feelings we have no knowledge of, they don't have nerve ending because they are not animals.
But something makes them grow.

However the smell of baked potatoes as I entered the house yesterday, made me want to eat them, and I feel no guilt about it.

I have no objection to people eating meat and fish, but I do object to the cruel conditions many farm animals are kept in for the meat trade.

Answer 7

not everyone becomes a vegetarian for the sole reason of not wanting to harm animals. infact most people just can't stand meat. also many people just want to change their diet to something that won't get fat or just because they like the idea of being a vegetarian.

i don't think we should be fighting about so and so's reasons for changing their diet. we're all given free will and God (if you believe in him) put us on this earth to eat what we want. meat-eaters are not bad eating it. its just a matter of the choices we make, which are ours and should concern no one else.

Answer 8

Not the point.
It takes 17 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of meat. 17 lbs of grain feeds many more people than 1 lb of meat.

If you are worried about the pain plants suffer when being harvested, include a ritual in your spiritual practice to help you honor them, or change your diet. Best of luck.

At least 100 people ask this question every month, where have you been?

Answer 9

Wow, you're really creative. Did you come up with this all on your own?

Don't try to alleviate your apparent guilt for eating living, feeling animals by trying to make vegetarians feel guilty for eating plants.

Answer 10

Yes it does hurt a plant to be ripped out of the ground..As a recent infamous President of the US posed, the answer to the question is in the definition of the words of the request. 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.

For example, plants tend to grow toward or face a light source. Does this mean they are afraid of the dark? No, it is the result of auxin or growth-promoting chemical concentrating on the dark side of a plant which, in turn, causes this side to grow faster than the side exposed to the light.

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. Often human respiration rates increase as a result of the mind’s influence on perceived consequences from an injury or a potential injury. Thus far, no one has been able to identify a single structure or organ in a plant that can be equated with the human brain, the organism responsible for human thought (some might suggest that certain cell structures are analogous to the brain in that they control cell responses, but that’s a real stretch).

Plants such as the tomato also have been known to abort their young! Although these abortions are often the result of stresses, they are physiological stresses and not emotional. For instance, fruit abortion is a defense mechanism of the plant to insure it will have sufficient water and nutrients to be able to mature a few fruit, rather than attempt to mature all of its fruits and cause none of them to make it. Developing fruit have a huge water demand. As a result of water shortages due to droughts, the plant growth is essentially shut down and fruit-drop occurs. All plant responses are a direct effect of chemical reactions!!

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

Answer 11

Have you ever seen an animal being slaughtered?? Compare that to a vegetable being picked.... Hmmm... which looks most in pain? Which is trashing about and SCREAMING in pain?? Who's blood is gushing to the floor?