If scientists proved plants feel pain, what would vegans have left to eat ?!
If scientists proved plants feel pain, what would vegans have left to eat ?
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They'd have to become fruitarians (fruit die naturally, by falling off trees, don't they?). I remember seeing an interesting article about plants feeling pain on Wikipedia: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/plant_p...
well that would suck for vegans. For whoever said that plants are a lesser form of life so are animals.
their words
Pain is not seen.
1. Still they would eat for they don't express themselves.
2. Animals blare through their throat, when killed which plants don't do.
Plants are lesser form of life.
VR
hahahahahaha...i think they'd eat each other. hilarious.
fungus? maybe stuff that died of natural causes? eeeeew....old beef. yuck.
umm let me think dirt? mixed with water oopps no they can't because there is living bacteria in the dirt and water man it must b tuff for them
What about the vegans who are vegans because of health and environmental reasons? Plus do you know how many plants have to die to make 1 cow? we are talking thousands or more! I would rather kill less life forms and be vegan..
Sorry just ahd to say that, even though I am a Vegetarian.
=P
Vegans are vegans for their own reasons. By that thinking, if you could sneak up on a cow and dispatch it without pain then a vegan could eat the cow.
By the same logic, if you torture a carrot before eviscerating it, a vegan could not eat it.
Do you actually know any vegans? I know I don't. I feel if we do not eat cows that they will take over the world and we will be enslaved to serve them.
the only thing left to eat. honey!
Then it would be necessary to eat a sentient "creature" unlike now so they'd probably still eat plants so they wouldn't starve (instead of animals) because if they ate animals they'd have to feed them plants to keep them alive and so many more plants and animals would have to die. They still wouldn't eat meat because the more lives you can save the better!
We would still eat plants and we would still have the ethical advantage. When you eat a pound of beef, you're responsible for the deaths of hundred of plants that went into the making of that meat. Add that onto the ethics of killing the cow.
I guess we'd just have to eat you my friend.
i guess air and the sun
This type of question is really old and meaningless. Plants don't have brains or nervous systems and hence don't feel emotions. This sort of question is thought up by meat eaters trying to justify to themselves why everyone should eat meat - but there's no "should" for anybody. Everyone's different and has different values in life.
You must really feel guilty for eating meat..... and have very little knowledge of plant biology. Go away, kid.
FYI,you are like the 50th person to ask this.vegans don't eat animal products or animals.do you step on grass?then you are hurting it.you would never say plants have feelings because that is so ridiculous,but when it comes to defending eating meat you only reach for such a radical argument.Plants don't have feeling.
wow......that would be horrible. well......know what? if the plants did feel pain then devolped systymes like animals....well......PLANT ATTACK!!!!!! lol. not really.
well, plants don't have brains, hearts, and phsycal components like that so i think vegans/vegetarians would still eat them because it would be better then eating an animal who actually has phsycal beings like us.
good question though
Scientists have yet to prove vegetables can feel pain when harvested. Forget the scientists, a simple experiment is to sever a cucumber or a tomato from its creeper, neither the cucumber, the tomato or the creeper will feel the pain.The creeper will not die, it will continue to bear more fruits. Cut a spinach plant, leaving the bottom stem, it WILL grow. The same CANNOT be applied to a chicken, sheep, goat, cow, pig or any other animal. They either scream in pain, suffer or even die. Can you cut and eat some part of the chicken or sheep or goat or cow or pig and leave the balance to live and grow? The answer is NO. This is based on the divine Hindu principle of Ahimsa.
Vegetables of course!
First of all, to feel pain, the organism in question will need a nervous system & a brain. & I haven't been able to find brains in my brocolli or spinach so far.
Secondly, even if it is eventually proven that plants feel pain, It is still more environmentally friendly to eat plants considering the massive amounts of waste produced by the meat production process. Not to mention the amount of grain that we could save and redirect to the 1 billion starving people in the world.
Trivia: the grain production in the world today is enough to providen each human being with 3000 calories a day! But most of the grain grown is directed to raising animals for meat consumption instead.