No, they don't really believe those things. They'll just say anything to justify eating meat, no matter how ridiculous.
Plants are alive and have souls too I am not proud to be a Vegitarian but thankful that I do not eat meat.
Plants have no central nervous systems, nerve endings, or brains, so there's currently no reason to believe that they experience pain. It's theorized that animals can feel pain so that they can use it for self-protection purposes. For instance, if you touch something hot and it hurts, you'll learn from the pain that you shouldn't touch that thing anymore. Since plants can't move from place to place and don't need to learn to avoid certain things, this sensation would serve no purpose.
Seriously, how many people believe that cutting your lawn is equivalent to doing these things:
http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.... ?
You, me and the other veggers know that this is just a ridiculous, rhetorical question that the meaters bring up to assuage their own guilt for eating animals.
Julie has the best answer, and I agree with it.
Plants don't have a central nervous system like us. But however science is finding that plant do response to pain. There is a report I don't know the link off the top of myhead that there are several species of plants the talk with each other my linking up by only what can be describe as communication tunnels. (Root like systems). Then an insect attacks one of these plants a chemical signal is release that tell the plant and the other in its network to produce a chemical that makes the plant tastes bad, so the insect reminders not to eat it again. Other studies have shown that plants then damage do repond to human pain killers. The thing is if plants don't feel pain why would they bother to do this.
I guess theres a close minded bigot who disagrees with science out there and gave me a thumbs down.
If you don't believe me read this and then do some research yourself.
http://plantneurobiology.ibcas.ac.cn/http://plantneurobiology.ibcas.ac.cn/dow...
i totally agree with you. my whole family makes fun of me about being a vegetarian. and they mention how "its wrong to kill a plant!?" just to get me mad. animals have feelings and can feel pain. and believe it or not, they have souls. And plants DO NOT have a soul or feel pain. I'm really tired of people riding me about choosing not to eat meat. its not affecting them, so why don't they leave me alone about it. everyone always says "God created animals for us to eat" but really, God originally created animals for Adams company, not for his dinner!
no they cant...
that would be Klausner from The Sound Machine written by Roald Dahl
Yeah! Plants do feel pain and vegetarians should stop slaughtering them.
this belief comes from scientology. L. Ron Hubbard tested this on a tomato plant and declared that the tomato felt pain. but we will probably never know.
Plants are alive, but it's just not the same thing as an animal. Cut a piece off of a plant, stick it in the ground, and it might grow into a new plant. Try doing that with an animal.
Actually plants can respond to the environmental changes so technically speaking you are KILLING a plant. The plant has to eat and absorb nutrients for food. They die when their roots are cut off. When they die they turn brown from the loss of oxygen because the chloraplast cease function.
They did a study where they played rock music in a room and another with classical music playing. They found out the room with the rock music, the plants didn't grow very well but the ones with classical music grew a lot more than the one in the other room.
Also venus fly traps and other plants like toadstools eat or should I say digest other creatures for nitrogen and nutrients.
Everything has feelings, Plants get each other pregnant and have offspring from their seeds. If they doesn't count as being alive then you are a hipocrite for not eating meat.
I don't care if I get a thumbs down, you can ignore the fact and stay ignorant about plants having living functions. I will remain educated and a meat eater.
This is just what I think, but...
Plants do not feel in the same way animals do. It's true that they are alive, but I don't think they feel pain or fear. Also, when people try to use this arguement, shoot back this: Isn't it better, though, that even in plants feel pain to eat only plants and only hurt them rather than hurt a ton more plants AND animals?
It's just an ignorant argument by ignorant people.
Especially considering their animals eat multiple times as many plants as I do, so I'm still doing less harm.
ashley does, lol but that would make her immoral since she juices everything hmmmmm what a conundrum
I don't think plants feel pain. They do react to stimuli though of course. There are animals that don't feel pain either (oysters, clams, scallops). What's wrong with eating them then?
The animals don't feel much pain either, as long as you whack them in the head before you carve them up. MMMMM
i do and will stand up for plants.
plants is a living things too.
they dance to music.
they give oxygen during the day.
if vegetarians that say meat is murder and plants are not, they seriously are lost in an asylum.
we do not murder the animal, we "hunt" it.
if vegetarians eat veggies, theyre eating the food of animals that they love.
disagree with me all you want, the only thing thats not "murder"
is eating your own sh!t