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Plants feel pain and suffer too. What about their feelings?

I decided to switch to a plant-based diet in 2016. During the first year in particular, people, friends and family where interested to know why I had made the change.

One evening I was out with friends when one of them said that we must eat something, and didn’t I know that plants felt pain too?

The first time I heard this, I just ignored it and laughed. But then a couple of others said the same thing to me so I decided to find out the truth about plants and whether or not they do feel pain.

What did the science say?

I found out that unlike animals and humans, plants lack a central nervous system, pain receptors and a brain, which means that they cannot feel pain.
The reason that animals and humans feel pain is to alert them to danger, to give them the chance to escape or avoid trouble. But plants are motionless. They can’t run away or avoid danger in that way so it would make not make sense on an evolutionary level for plants to feel pain.

But plants can react to stimuli, which is why they will tilt towards the sun and follow its path across the sky.

But I think that when people tell me that plants feel pain, too, and try to use it as an argument to carry on consuming meat at dairy, they are not being honest with themselves.

As part of the process of slaughtering chickens, for example, they are often dropped into boiling water. No one could seriously claim that this is just as immoral as picking an apple and eating it or putting potatoes into boiling water.

But let’s say for the sake of argument that plants do feel pain and suffer in just the same way as animals. It turns out that it takes up to 16 kilograms of plants to create just 1 kilogram of animal flesh. This means, then, that eating meat and dairy promotes the killing, suffering and slaughter of many more plants than eating a plant-based diet.

Only this weekend, I was speaking to an acquaintance who had switched to a plant-based diet 6 months ago. I asked him what his motivation had been. He told me several factors, but the factor that tipped him over the edge into action had been learning that the huge fires in the Amazon Rainforest were largely being caused by farmers clearing the forest to create pasture land to grow grain and soya to feed to livestock.
He told me that when he learned how much land was needed to continually fuel our greed and hunger for meat and that we were basically destroying the lungs of the earth to satisfy the world’s meat addition, he was moved into action.

It reminded me of all the trees that are felled every day to gain more land to grow more crops to feed more animals. This just insane!

So it’s clear, even if you do believe that plants feel pain, which they don’t, by switching to a plant-based diet you are helping to save trees and plants at the same time as the animals and your own health. It really is a win-win on every level.

This video is by Alan Twigg

Author of "And Suddenly, Everything Changed"

http://alantwigg.org/and-suddenly-eve...

chapters
0:03 - Introduction: Today's Topic

0:09 - Do Plants Feel Pain?

0:14 - The Excuse of Eating Meat

0:19 - Benefits of Going Plant-Based

0:25 - The Vegan Lifestyle

0:33 - Denial and The Vegan Journey

0:48 - Personal Experience: Switching to Vegan Diet

1:09 - Do Plants Feel Pain too?

1:23 - The First Time I Heard Plants Feel Pain

1:36 - The Repeated Concern: Do Plants Suffer?

1:55 - Investigating: Can Plants Feel Pain?

2:14 - What Does Science Say?

2:18 - Discovering the Truth: Plants and Pain

2:34 - Understanding Pain from an Evolutionary Perspective

3:00 - The Function of Pain in Animals Vs. Plants

3:29 - The Confusion: Plants Reacting to Stimuli

4:00 - Hypothetically Speaking: If Plants Could Feel Pain

4:19 - The Ratio of Plant to Animal Production

4:29 - The Impact of Meat Production on Plant Life

4:44 - Going Vegan for Plant Life

5:01 - Personal Story: Switching to a Plant-Based Diet

5:24 - The Amazon Rainforest Fires and Agriculture

6:03 - The Decision to Change Diet for the Environment

6:15 - Being Part of the Solution, Not the Problem

6:29 - The Environmental Impact of Meat Production

6:46 - Understanding the Cruelty of Meat Production

7:01 - The Clear Conclusion: Plants Don't Feel Pain

7:09 - The Benefits of a Plant-Based Vegan Diet

7:30 - Ending Note: Reducing Suffering with a Vegan Diet.