Do plants have feelings? Do they hurt when we cut them?
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JazzieFizzle
ANSWERS: 10
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I believe that plants do have feelings. I'm must think that all life must have some sort of a feeling, but we can never hear the cry of the plant. Perhaps mother nature brings it's wrath when we cut down trees and such.
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Logically they don't have feelings. But religiously they have feelings and are compared to God in Hinduism.
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we don t really know, however technicians have attached gages and monitouring devices and have detected immidate changes in plant chemistry and electric impulses when surrounding plants were damaged or cut or burned also when another area of the same plant was touched or damaged. Not sure if this quallifies "feelings , pain " but there is a detectable effect / change / respondce.
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Of course plants have feelings. It's as much of a fact as gravity. Anybody who denies this is a fool. I have a friend, one Mary Cline, that has become a vegtarian. What she knows not is that she is responsible for the murder of millions of our innocent, green friends. Stop the violence. Save the plants.
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No, they don't have nervous system.
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I remember something in a science book that we discussed in high school. Scientists put two plants next to each other from the time they were both planted as seeds, so the "grew up" together. Someone came in and mutilated one of the plants. The other plant got hooked up to a meter. People came and went and everything was normal, but when the person who mutilated the other plant came in, the meter went crazy. There must be something there!
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There was a book "The Secret Life of Plants" that theorized that they do. It's the book that had the research that a couple of other people described in their answers. The truth is we don't know, but if they have "feelings", it is not anything like the "feelings" we have, since they have no brains or nervous system like we do.
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Yes plants have feelings. People here who are saying they dont, are very ignorant at this age of time. Someone above said they dont have nervous system. This has all been proven with experiments by sceintists starting in 1920's that plants run a nervous system parallel to those of animals. Between 1960 and 1970, Burdon-Sanderson conducted many experiments on the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) and other plants proving many things, one of which was each time a trigger hair was touched it fired off a wave of electrical activity almost identical to the nerve impulses, or action potentials, produced by animal neurons. And there's a lot more to all this, plants feeling pain, touch, producing sounds (ofcourse human ear is not capable of fearing anything not between 20 and 20,000 HZ), listening and responding to voice(pleasant and noise and its affect on their growth), and they use their sense of touch for sex.
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If they do what moral high ground will the vegans cling to now OMG the humanity.
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For a long time it was stated that "fish don't have feelings" because their nervous system was too rudimentary. This was proven wrong through a Scottish study of Haddock. Moreover, plants have an extremely complex network of chemical reactions in their bodies that, while not as quick-acting as our own, does function to tell the plant when it has been "injured". These chemical pathways are mostly hormonal in nature and thus do not require a nervous system - but the plant definitely "feels" change and responds to stimulus. The problem is with our need to project our own human notions of "feeling" onto other organisms. People do this often with cats and dogs (and other pets); assigning them emotionality that has no place being extended to them. Each species has its own experience - we can no more grasp the sensory network of a plant through the analogy of our own senses than it can do so to us.
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