Why do some people think plants have feeings?!
Why do some people think plants have feeings?
since when do they have central nervous systems? errrrg.
Answers:
I think they try to make themselves feel better about being so selfish that something has to die to feed their greedy appetites. Any first grader knows that plants have no central nervous system, brain, heart, or other organs. And, plants dont die when they give up their goods, they just keep right on reproducing! lol. I grow my own veggies and fruits, and have yet to hear one wince in pain-my cat will whimper if I step on her tail though!
They don't actually think that,they are just trying to make themsleves feel better(except Jains).
From:Micheal Bluejay
It is human nature to want to feel that what we're doing is right, proper, and logical. When we're confronted with something that suggests that our current practices are not the best ones, it's uncomfortable. We can either consider that our choices may not have been the best ones, which is extremely disturbing, or we can reject that premise without truly considering it, so that we don't have to feel bad about our actions. That's the more comfortable approach. And we do this by searching our minds for any arguments we can for why the challenge must be wrong, to justify our current behavior.
Think about that for a moment: Our feeling that our current actions are correct isn't based on our arguments. Rather, our actions come first and then we come up with the arguments to try to support those actions. If we were truly logical, we'd consider the evidence first and then decide the best course of action. But often we have it in reverse, because it's too difficult to accept that we might have been wrong.
This is particularly true when it comes to vegetarianism. It is quite easy to identify because the anti-vegetarian arguments are usually so weak and desperate, compared to other kinds of discourse. A person who would never normally suggest something so fantastic as the idea that plants can think and feel pain, will suddenly all but lunge for such an argument when they feel their meat-eating ways are being questioned. It's human nature.
At an earlier point in my life, I was in the same position as you probably are. My habits were challenged by a book I ran across in the library called Going Vegetarian. I didn't want to consider it fairly, because I wanted to keep eating meat. I'd grown up eating it, and I liked it. And there was another reason: I'd grown up in a small farming community raising and killing chickens. Accepting the book's premise really meant that I'd have to admit that I might not have made the best choices. So I came up with various weak defenses to justify my behavior. But deep down I knew I was kidding myself, and practicing a form of intellectual cowardice. When I considered the arguments honestly, I stopped eating animals. That was over 20 years ago and it was absolutely the best decision I ever made.
they do have feelings.............hmmm well i think so.
PEACE OUT!
I except everybody's diet, but vegans tend to be really mean. I mean what do they get out of calling us meat eaters murderers? I have never put down a persons diet choice, but they think they can put mine down.
believe it or not anything living that can die has some type of feelings may not be like humans though
A quick search brought up the following:
"It is very possible that plants have sensitivities that we do not yet understand. Because plants do not have nervous systems and cannot run away from predators, it has generally been assumed that they do not experience pain and suffering. Recent scientific evidence suggests that this assumption may be incorrect. However, we do know that birds and other nonhuman vertebrates have well-developed nervous systems and pain receptors the same as humans. Like us, they show pleasure and pain and they present comparable evidence of fear and well-being. Animals cry out in pain, they nurse wounded body parts, and they seek to avoid those who have hurt them in the past."
Plants are alive Aliving thing.
It just might be. Some trees in the forest weem to have a way of talking to other trees because when they get infested with certain creatures the other trees manufacture a pestacide before the bugs get to them.
How and why I sure do not know. Many plnts do strange things under different circumstances.
Feelings I do not know but plants do adapt and very fast some times.
i dont think it has anything to do with NOT having a central nervouse system. i think it has to do with the fact that plants are living things
They say that to make you feel bad about eating them too. Plants do not have the ability to think or to perceive pain.
OK a few corrections first, before I answer.
The argument made by Vegan and Proud, and Beeps, seems to be the response from the Veg*n community, and while I am Vegan myself, I can see that the perspective they hold is blinded by their desire to promote veg*nism.
The brief comment made by Guess Who is in no way an answer to this question, but I will respond anyway. The phrase "meat is murder" is an undeniable causative fact, as part of the simple process of cause and effect. Someone kills an animal for their flesh, the animal is innocent of any crime, so it is by definition murder, and by buying the flesh from a trader you are condoning the action of the supplier who killed the animal. So eating meat is not an act of murder, buying meat is an indirect act of murder. This is not to say I have a problem with your choosing to murder animals, or that I'm attempting to insult you, ridicule you, or put you down. It's merely matter of fact.
Robocop48 had the right idea. quick search on the web for someone's opinion on the subject, but that doesn't make his link true. Anyone can put anything on the web, truth, lies, deception, terrorism, anything, and theres nothing to stop them, total freedom of speech for the world. so lets look at it.
The only sentence that jumps out at me is "Recent scientific evidence suggests that this assumption may be incorrect." The recent scientific evidence this quote refers to is how some clever people somewhere have developed a way to hear what these people think may be the soul of the plant. When the plant is subjected to effects that would cause it to die if left on for extended periods, the readings from these machines indicate the possibility that the plant's soul is screaming in "pain", although the readings are inconclusive. It is true that plants do not have a central nervous system, or nerves, or a brain, or pain receptors, but one thing that uantum physicists agree on is that all matter in the universe IS energy (E=MC^2), and that that energy continues to reside in the matter even as some of the energy becomes material, and that extra energy could be called to soul, and the vibration of that energy could be an indication of how that object's soul is feeling, so this means the idea of hurting plants is not so abstract after all, however, by this hypothesis, it means that it is also possible to hurt the feelings of rocks, the ocean, Earth's core, comets, the Sun, everything that is, was or ever will be.
Perhaps you better be more careful with what and how you think, so you don't insult the computer you're reading this on.
If your still thinking "this is so way out there, it's funny." Perhaps you would benefit from watching a short 90 minute film called "The Secret". The way you think about things defines your experience of them, so next time your eating an apple, really enjoy and take pleasure in taking the life force that was once part of that apple tree, knowing that the tree will live on, and produce many more apples long into the future.
Or perhaps you like carrots. Next time you eat a carrot, recognise that by pulling it out of the ground you have effectively murdered that organism for your own benefit, and take great pleasure in consuming it, knowing it will never live again.
Or will it?
Is it really murder if the soul is immortal? is killing an innocent plant a bad thing if it can reincarnate in the future as anything it wishes to be? How do these arguments hold up against bigger questions, like the killing of innocent animals, or mammals, or even humans?
I suppose these questions are the sort of thing you will ask your religious leader to answer, if you care. I suppose it depends a great deal about what will happen to you after you die, as to what happens when your carrot dies, if you believe you will ever die that is.
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER????????
seriously....i get asked why i dont eat veggies either because they are alive....but like you said since when did they have central nervous systmes!!!!???
~cam xo
(i am The Veggie lol just joking)(but i am A veggie)
Plants actually can feel its been proven with Venus flytraps and that plants also react to sunlight, but they don't have souls or anything like that.
well you can meansure their stress, their tension with a thing called oscilloscope