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Old 03-24-2006, 05:32 PM
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Every now and then when I bring up that I'm vegetarian, someone will pipe up with "plants feel pain, too!"

I always answer with "No. No, they don't. They have no nervous system. How can they feel pain?" To which "a study showed it!" is usually the answer.

So here I ask for proof of plants feeling pain. Someone? Anyone?
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Old 03-24-2006, 05:46 PM
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Certain kinds of animals don't feel any pain, either...what is necesary to feel pain is not just a nervous system, but a portion of the brain (I believe it's the cerebral cortex) as well, which some animals don't have.
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Every now and then when I bring up that I'm vegetarian, someone will pipe up with "plants feel pain, too!"

I always answer with "No. No, they don't. They have no nervous system. How can they feel pain?" To which "a study showed it!" is usually the answer.

So here I ask for proof of plants feeling pain. Someone? Anyone?
I can't tell if this is a serious story or not: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/08/plant_pain.html
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Old 03-24-2006, 06:30 PM
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Given that it says this is a related story, I'm going to have to call 'satire'.
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I don't have proof that may convince you Jensa, but Luther Burbank wrote a lot about this subject years ago. You can read about him in a chapter of the book Autobiography of a Yogi which can read online at www.crystalclarity.com/yogananda/.
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Jenna, physically they cannot, or, at least, I do not believe so.

But if you try out that meditation I told you about, you will be able to sense, in a way, the pain that a tree, at least, may feel. It's not the same as our pain. It's more of a subdued sadness or melancholy, at least in my experience. I don't know if this applies to anything other than trees.
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Well, I would think that these people are simply saying that as a reason to go against vegitarianism.
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I will second the meditation, and that it's not a pain as humans percieve it, but a type of depression and drop in energy.
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Well, I would think that these people are simply saying that as a reason to go against vegitarianism.
Not at all. I think the topic is interesting enough without going down that road.
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