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Originally Posted by Daradon
There have been recent studies that plants may also feel pain and might even 'scream' or single others to to their plight
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I call malarky on those studies. But let's say for arguments sake that I grant you that plants feel pain. And let's say that I go completely crazy and say that they feel pain the same excruciating way that a creature with a complicated nervous system like a mammal does.
If our ethics claim that we should cause the least amount of suffering, then we should still be vegetarians. Cows eat piles and piles of corn, that if eaten directly by humans could feed many more people. Less corn would need to "suffer" to provide our sustenance if we ate it directly rather than giving it to cows.
I used to think that "Carrot Juice is Murder" by the Arrogant Worms was promoting this idea that plants feel pain... but the more I listen to it, the more asinine and humourous the idea is.
The oddest thing is that I've seen a few of these people that claim that plants feel pain ACTUALLY MOWING THEIR LAWNS!!! What kind of sadists are these people?!?! That's millions of cuts to those poor, poor suffering living organisms. How can one be so cruel?