Do trees feel pain?

Question

Do trees feel pain?

Answer 1

I always thought about this since they are living things and if animals can feel pain then why not plants or trees. You have to understand the anatomy and physiology within a tree. Most trees have a xylem, phloem, cork cambium, 2nd xylem and phloem, bark all of which do not include any sensory structures that may send a signal or "pain" to a control center that doesn't exsist.  Our perception of pain is only as strong as it is perceived and if a plant or tree cannot perceive it even if it had the other structures available to send hot or cold signals then it would not "know" what to learn from. It just knows where is light and where is water.

Answer 2

Yes they do. Sir Jagdishchandra Bose had demonstrated this through scientific experiments.

Answer 3

They don't have nerves or a brain which means they can feel pain or understand that there is pain...feel free to start chopping away!

Answer 4

No i don't think so.

Answer 5

DALLAS--Research scientists at Baylor Medical Center have proven that plants, including vegetables, feel pain when subjected to trauma such as being yanked out of the ground, peeled, cooked, and eaten. "Veggies and plants initiate a massive hormone and chemical barrage internally when they suffer any kind of injury," says professor Barry Lindzer. "This response is akin to the nerve response and endorphin release when an animal is injured. We cannot ignore the similarities." When Tarnish asked professor Lindzer and his research team what they thought this finding might mean, they responded unanimously, "Nobel prize, baby!"

Answer 6

No

Answer 7

They feel my pain all the time. Very sympathetic things they are.

Answer 8

They feel pain in a different form. We make noise and scream when we feel pain. A tree feels pain on a quiet level. Pain that is unknown to mankind, but, they still feel pain.

Answer 9

I wish they did - I'd make this damned thing outside my front door suffer..... Planted by the "green loving" Westminster City Council twenty years ago, it now blocks most of my daylight during the summer, spends two months shedding leaves, then another three dropping miniature cones on passers-by and then makes a mess when some of the fine branches get blown down if so much as somebody walking by farts loudly - and the council won't even come and trim it back! Pain - If only I knew HOW ! ! !

Answer 10

Only when they are alive, so don't hurt them!!!!

Answer 11

go and ask 1  they dont have nerves so dont think so

Answer 12

We do not know whether tree's feel pain and i doubt they are going to put research into seeing if they have a CNS, considering they are not considered self aware then i doubt very much that they can feel pain :)

the previous answer on Bose i feel is inaccurate:

Bose did this, and this is not proving that plants feel pain.

"He used his own invention crescograph to measure plant response to various stimuli, and thereby scientifically proved parallelism between animal and plant tissues."