We all eat plants.How is it that they don't experience pain while being cooked?

Question

It is said that animals experience great pain while being slaughtered for food.So everyone must become vegetarian.But plants are also living beings,they also must experience pain while being uprooted.So how is it that we should eat only plant food?

Answer 1

They do feel pain, we are just not sensitive enough to hear them screaming.  How would you like to be boiled alive?

Answer 2

plants dont have eyes, a heart, or anything else of that matter. they are not living beings. they are just living and growing.

Answer 3

They do, it is hypocrisy to concentrate on warm fuzzy animals while ignoring  the enslavement and exploitation of plants.

  

Answer 4

pain in animals are caused by nerve cells sending electronic signals to the brain saying they are in pain.

Plants neither have these nerve cells, or a brain and are genetically completely different to animals.

Also, not all animals go through tremendous pain, if you snap the nervous chord, they can't feel any pain and death is instant...

Answer 5

Plants aren't alive in the sense that they have spirits, or are sentient. Their reactions to sunlight and environment are more a matter of chemical reactions than any kind of instinct or insight.  

Answer 6

Their tissues and parts of the plants reallly get injured when they are uprooted or cooked,but they don't have any way to show it

For e.g.:-We quickly put our hand off when we touch a pan but the plants do not show locomotion and cant response

What I wanna say is:-Whan an animal's muscles and bones are injured,the brain is quickly informed by the messages of the nerves,and to prevent the body from being injured and getting any loss it quickly informs the body part which is injures to prevent itself by telling the mouth to scream etc., or itself prevents the body part from being injured like the example e.g.I have given above but the plants don't have that much brain to respond to a thing or prevent tham from being injured.Moreover they have no nerves or other tissues that will inform the injured body part that it is getting injured so it should prevent itself.It doesn't have moth,eyes ,nose,moutth ,hands and legs also to show the respoense  

Answer 7

plants have no pain receptors,central nervous system or brains,therefore CAN'T feel pain.

Answer 8

Caution - long answer - but an interesting perspective

There are two distinct facets to the argument of whether plants feel pain. The first is a semantic one which retreats to the human-centered definition of the word "pain" found in most dictionaries...and from this standpoint, it is virtually certain that plants do not, indeed, "feel pain."  It is this facet that “ethical" vegetarians and AR advocates most often seek to exploit, but it is clearly not a direct addressing of the issue....it is merely defining the question out of existence.

The second facet is far more challenging, since it deals with moral and biological significance rather than semantics.  To address this, one must first define pain, its significance to an organism, andthe significance of reactions to it, as well as the moral significance of inducing it.  [Even then, one will not have silenced the true believer, because the conversation will then turn to the deprivation caused a "sentient" being by premature death, but that's another matter.]

At its base, pain can be viewed as a warning to the organism that experiences it, that it's life and/or ability to propagate its genetic heritage is under threat.  It can be argued that organisms are essentially [as some wag once said] "DNA's way of making more DNA."  Virtually ALL organisms have sensory mechanisms that are aimed at warning the individual of threats to life and/or reproduction, thus, while plants probably can't "feel pain" (as defined in human dictionaries), plants can certainly sense their environment and react in ways that are clearly intended to minimize threats tolife and/or reproduction: threats that humans would interpret as painful.  In other words, whatever one chooses to call it, plants certainly experience the *functional equivalent* of that which we humans call "pain", as do essentially all other organisms.

Having settled that, one must consider (assuming one remains interested) whether consciously inducing these responses in plants is the moral equivalent of consciously inducing them in humans[as well as cute, furry, non-human creatures].  Can one "torture" a plant by making it waste its resources and energy on self-protection rather than directing to toward reproduction?  There is ample evidence of systemic response in plants to external threats, asI'm sure many researchers in the field of botany would agree. Wildon has published evidence of an electrical signaling system in plants similar to the epithelial conduction system found in several "lower" animals (NATURE 360:62-65; 1992); others have published evidence of intra-plant chemical signaling systems and have even found intriguing indications that plants may even signal to each other (an interesting lay review can be found in Science News, Dec. 22/29, 1990, pp. 408-410).

However simple plants may seem as viewed from our position of evolutionary complexity, we should not fall into the trap of thinking plants to be simply "passive green things."

Answer 9

www.department13designs.com/vegan.html.....

/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/08...

check this out.

Plants do feel pain , of course their reaction physiology may be different.

Answer 10

how do you know they dont?