plant pain

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The article that I read (and I have looked all over for it to post here)

didn't mention plant " pain " , but something that more resembles stress. They

tried to measure the anxiety of a tree that was about to be cut down, they

did it with some fancy electrical device that looked like the things that

they put on your chest to read your heartbeat in the hospital. When they

turned the chainsaw on and got close to the tree, nothing happened. But

when the man went to the tree with intentions of cutting it down, the needle

on the machines went off the chart. As if the tree knew his intentions.

 

But my other point was that during harvest, many cute little bunnies and

other critters get killed (at worst) or are forced to relocate (at best).

Which leads to construction issues, or population issues...it's a cruel

world that we live in, people like us (me) have to draw our lines in the

sand SOMEWHERE or it could drive one insane, or here:

http://www.enviroweb.org/coe/

 

This is not the article that I read last year:

http://www.animalconcerns.org/Faqs+Ref/plants_have_feelings.html#1

 

-andy

www.bluehoney.org

 

 

 

 

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> I think that it's very unlikely that plants feel pain. The primary reason

for

> this believe is because the pain response serves a purpose. That purpose

is to

> allow avoidance of the situation that causes pain. In animals the pain

response

> causes flight away from the source of pain (noxious stimuli); it is solely

a

> defensive mechanism. Unfortunately, plants do not have the ability to

avoid

> pain, (i.e. move away) so a pain response would not serve a purpose and

would

> not have been selected for in plants.

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> Research in plant anatomy has never demonstrated anything closely

resembling a

> nervous system, no nerves, no pain receptors. Anyone who wants to claim

that

> plants feel pain has the onus of proof. Extraordinary claims require

> extraordinary proof.

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> dennis

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