Comments on: What About Plants?

By: shashadeebezt

shashadeebezt — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:35:06 +0000

hey guess wht i love plants there so pwity..:P

By: Panic Disorder Treatment

Panic Disorder Treatment — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:09:51 +0000

In this post I am fully convinced that plants were capable of emotions just like humans and animals, and would grow big and strong if only they were spoken to with love and affection. This is a great help to those vegetarian. A very insightful and useful post to the readers. More Power!

By: cornfield

cornfield — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:45 +0000

The following link gives a taste of what is currently being studied by botanists with respect to plant perception:

http://www.pnas.org/content/103/23/8894.abstract

It is an interesting question: where should the line between sentience and non-sentience be drawn?

Cheers!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:01:32 +0000

I agree that it's a complex subject and one not to be taken lightly, considering what we do know about plants. .-= Daniel´s last blog ..Cheap & Easy! Creative vegan education that is... =-.

By: cornfield

cornfield — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:03 +0000

If sentience is defined as the ability to feel pain then it is difficult to believe that plants would be included in the sentient category. However, this definition of sentience has been criticized as being needlessly anthropocentric.

Sentience can also be defined as the ability to distinguish self from non-self and respond to an attacker. Many plants can do this through their immune system. They can distinguish between a variety of organisms that attack them: viruses, fungi, bacteria, herbivores, nematodes, and other organisms. Plants can perceive what sort of attacker is present and determine a response tailored to fit that perception. Based on this definition, plants do appear to be sentient.

By: Do plants have feelings? « Terra Nemorosa – The Vegan Land

Do plants have feelings? « Terra Nemorosa – The Vegan Land — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:05:35 +0000

[...] avoid eating them, but so they can ignore the fact that animals most definitely do have feelings. This article discusses the possibility of plants being [...]

By: tron

tron — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:56:01 +0000

Plant sentience would be a good argument to get out of mowing the grass.

By: Doob

Doob — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:05:51 +0000

Oddly enough as a vegan, I sometimes question if eating up the animals food supply is actually “animal friendly* especially where food is scarce for humans to begin with. As far as eating plants, it is still a living thing and is not any friendlier than consuming flesh. I grow my own vegetables so eating from the garden is cheaper than grocery store. If you truely want to save all living creatures, eat an all chemical diet made from non-living material.Anything that grows, and breathes, is living.

By: mollyjade

mollyjade — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:54:57 +0000

I always ask people if they would walk ON or AROUND a field of chickens. Then I ask them if they would walk on or around a field of grass. It's intuitive that animals feel pain, and in most circumstances anyone but a psychopath is going to avoid causing that pain. No one worries about stepping on grass. .-= mollyjade´s last blog ..Review: Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food =-.

By: Eccentric Vegan

Eccentric Vegan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:30:08 +0000

I agree with Alex, though I think it of more as an argument against animal-eating than an argument for veganism simply because it could easily become a better argument for fruitarianism than for veganism.

Regardless, anyone who eats animals yet claims to worry about plants is a hypocrite.