Do Plants Feel Pain?
There is some evidence to suggest they do
If you google, “Are plants sentient?” you’ll get the answer you desire. The only difference is the person who is an advocate for plant rights, are meat-eaters. They use this as a way to say if you can’t save them all, might as well kill them all.
Plants Might Feel Pain
I wish I could outright tell you that plants don’t feel pain, but there is some evidence to suggest otherwise. Plants are much different than humans and animals as they don’t have a brain or central nervous system. For example, if we cut our finger with a knife, our nerves send signals to the brain where the pain is registered. Plants don’t have the system so we’ve dismissed the idea that plants can experience suffering as we do.
Scientists in Tel Aviv did an experiment where they didn’t water tobacco or tomato plants and cut off their stems. This resulted in the plants emitting high-frequency sounds that they believe were distress sounds to warn other plants nearby. Another study conducted by The University of Wisconsin-Madison found that plants reacted to being eaten in a similar way that we react to pain. The scientists modified the plant to make a protein that glows around calcium. They could then see the calcium wave that went through the plant after it was bitten by a…
