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I don't think vegetables or fruits or any plants have any kind of "feelings." Some of you may disagree. But I think we all can agree on one thing: A bananamouse would be totally rad to have.
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I definitely think veggies have feelings and can have pain. Venus fly traps move around on their own and catch bugs, and can kill other organisms. Sunflowers move around on their own too, along with the sun. There are certain "higher" mechanisms in these plants, and I think that since they can do more things, there are even more actions that branch out and become visible. I do believe that plants should be respected and cared for. I wish I could pray whenever I eat a salad, but I can't because the people at the next table will stare at me :P
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yes, there was actually a scientific study! and though we cant hear that, like we cant hear many sounds outside our range, grass even screams when you cut it. Vegans aren't holier than thou! Native Americans used to thank the buffalo and plants for giving up theIr life for our survival. WE ARE PART OF A COMPLEX ECO SYSTEM AND FOODCHAIN That is the respect we should show ALL things living. REMEMBER TAKES 4 TIMES THE LAND TO RAISE MEAT THAN BIG FARMER VEGGIES AND TAKES 4 TIMES THE LAND TO RAISE VEGGIES ORGANIC. The truth shall set you free. or confuse you.
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I have no doubt that plants react -- and quite rapidly -- to any and all damage inflicted upon them. I also wonder if we wouldn't have to be just a little full of ourselves to believe that just because we cannot hear something scream or see it writhe about or see the light leave it's eyes, that it does not know and react in it's own way to its death. I think we create "hierarchies of sentience" when killing to eat, to try to comfort ourselves over the fact that something must die in order for us to continue living. It's a way of detaching ourselves from a reality that we may want to pretend doesn't exist. Now excuse me while I go cut the lawn and weed the garden for the steak BBQ tonight!
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I hate to hurt vegetables' feelings, but people can and do live on a steady diet of beans. That can't be said about cauliflower, carrots, broccoli or even beets.
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if veggies could feel pain, then the vegans would be in some serious trouble... we might just run out of vegans in a few days, haha!
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Vegetables are unknowing of us, kind of like we are unable to see God. There's an order Mineral, Plant, Animal- I think only the animals feel. And I dont really know why it matters when we kill animals and eat them anyway. =(
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No, I don't think they have feelings but dude that's the freakiest banana mouse thing I've ever seen! My daughter would want to raise them if it were possible.
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They have very basic chemical mechanisms that are probably some sort of primitive nerve, but plants are non-sentient so have no more feeling than the keyboard I'm typing on -- they may respond to some stimuli, but there is no evidence nor no reason that they feel.
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I can't believe I have actually worried about this. The thing is, I have come to agree with the mystics, after much reading and research of mystical writings and quantum physics, that every natural thing (including rocks) is connected with every other natural thing. We are all part of the whole. Which would mean that plants, etc. feel what we feel. I have no doubt that animals have feelings. Yesterday I went to the store and bought steaks. Yum. Then today I had chili at my friend's house. After I ate the chili I was reminded that the meat had come from the cows I had fed on her farm when they were babies. Yuck! She gave me a steak from one of the two cows she had butchered and now I don't want to eat it. I keep seeing those cows out in her pasture. They were beautiful. Too, they were penned up the last couple of days of life and they howled at the discomfort. They wanted to be out romping in the field, not stuck in the barn. I hope that plants don't have feelings or else what would I eat???
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I hope they do, because that would just give me another good reason not to eat peas.
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I was just thinking about something similar the other day... I had ripped off a blade of grass and thought, hmmm, i wonder if that hurt the grass and they just don't have vocal chords to scream at me for ripping it out. But then I figured that they don't have a nervous system either which would tell them it hurts, right? So no, I don't think vegetables, or grass have "feelings". I probably wont go ripping out anymore blades of grass though.
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