What about plants?

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" What about plants? "

There is currently no reason to believe that plants experience pain, devoid as

they are of central nervous systems, nerve endings, and brains. It is theorized

that the main reason animals have the ability to experience pain is as a form of

self-protection. If you touch something that hurts and could possibly injure

you, you will learn from the pain it produces to leave it alone in the future.

Since plants cannot locomote and do not have the need to learn to avoid certain

things, this sensation would be superfluous.

 

Plants are completely different physiologically from mammals. Unlike animals'

body parts, many perennial plants, fruits, and vegetables can be harvested over

and over again without resulting in the death of the plant or tree.

 

If one is concerned about the impact of vegetable agriculture on the

environment, a vegetarian diet is still preferable to a meat-based one, since

the vast majority of grains and legumes raised today are used as feed for

cattle. By eating vegetables directly, rather than eating animals such as cows

who must consume 16 pounds of vegetation in order to convert them into 1 pound

of flesh, one is saving many more plants' lives (and destroying less land).

 

~Janice~

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