Why do vegans assume carrots feel no pain when consumed?!
Answers: Shameful ... torn out by their roots. OH MY ... the pain!!
are you serious?
A carrot doesn't have a nervous system.
Vegans do indeed assume carrots feel no pain when consumed.
No nervous system.
Plus, they don't scream when you bite or boil them...
Because carrots have no nervous system. You cannot feel pain if you:
a) have no brain
b) have no nervous system
Let them assume and do what they want. And you do what you want. Neither one should try to impose their views in the other.
are you serious?
why do you guys post questions to try to make fun of vegetarians
Becauze we have no reason to believe that carrots can feel pain. Excactely like we have no reason to believe than a car can feel pain. For animals, we have evidences about they can feel pain. For carrots, has they dont have any receptor for pain. And it wont be logical for something who cant move to feel pain, as pain is a system to help a being to survive, by giving alarm to withraw himself from a hurting source.
If you can point out the brain and/or central nervous system to me, I will be happy to entertain the idea that a carrot feels pain. Sorry, but plants just lack the parts required to feel or think anything. Not to mention the fact that, by not eating animals or supporting animal agriculture, I am responsible for the death of fewer plants, not more.
That's a pretty dumb question. Then again, my steak doesn't feel any pain when consumed either, it doesn't scream and yell when I throw it on the grill. Maybe the question should be 'do carrots feel pain when they are ripped from the ground?'
In words of Gary Francione:
"Plants do not have nervous systems, benzodiazepine receptors, or any of the characteristics that we identify with sentience. And this all makes scientific sense. Why would plants evolve the ability to be sentient when they cannot do anything in response to an act that damages them? If you touch a flame to a plant,the plant cannot run away; it stays right where it is and burns. If you touch a flame to a dog, the dog does exactly what you would do,cries in pain and tries to get away from the flame. Sentience is a characteristic that has evolved in certain beings to enable them to survive by escaping from a noxious stimulus. Sentience would serve no purpose for a plant; plants cannot “escape”. "
Wow you apparently have no brain! plants do not have a central nervous system hints why they don't feel pain
Because it's never been proven that they do. Pain is part of a brain process. A plant can only react to stimuli on a chemical level, without "feeling". Same goes for oysters, clams and scallops (or any bivalve).
quite simply because
since plants do not have a nervous system they cannot feel pain.
ha ha ha. but seriously, no nervous system or brain.
There's currently no reason to believe that carrots experience pain because they are devoid of central nervous systems, nerve endings, and brains. It's theorized that animals are able to feel pain so that they can use it for self-protection purposes. For example, if an animal touches something hot and feels pain, he/she will learn from the pain not to touch that thing in the future. 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.
Physiologically, plants are completely different from mammals. Many perennial plants, fruits, and vegetables can be harvested over and over again without dying.