Do plants feel pain?

[levitate]

I'm eating an apple and banana here in the office and I'm thinking "Damn, what if these brehs are hurting when I'm eating them "

 

[Pazzy]

They do. They are species like the rest of us.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

you obviously never watched the happening

 

[FLYINHAWAIIAN]

Nope

 

[Towlie]

I watched a ted talk in the botanical gardens in Australia about certain plants having touch receptors and "brain" activity

Transcript of "Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate"

 

[Kasper KArr]

I watched a ted talk in the botanical gardens in Australia about certain plants having touch receptors and "brain" activity

Transcript of "Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate"

Yup. They also have an immune system as well. In fact, virulence sensors such as inflammasomes were first understood in plants.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I'm eating an apple and banana here in the office and I'm thinking "Damn, what if these brehs are hurting when I'm eating them "

technically it would have to still be growing to be capable of pain... ripe fruit doesn't count... even if you didn't pick the fruit it would fall to the ground and eventually rot..

so the trees they come from might feel pain not their fruits.

 

[Mr. Negative]

plants release a chemical when injured that acts almost like blood when animals get injured.

the smell of fresh cut lawn is really you smelling the pain of millions and millions of blades of grass.

have a good day

 

[hashmander]

i have a greenhouse and i dote over my plants as if they feel pain.

 

[Mr. Negative]

technically it would have to still be growing to be capable of pain... ripe fruit doesn't count... even if you didn't pick the fruit it would fall to the ground and eventually rot..

so the trees they come from might feel pain not their fruits.

but nah this was my actual thought on it, too.

fruit and leaves and all of that aren't attached to the plant anymore, so they don't feel anything.

Hell, it could be like hair and nails, for all we know. You can pull your hair and feel it on your skin, but your actual hair doesn't feel anything.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

but nah this was my actual thought on it, too.

fruit and leaves and all of that aren't attached to the plant anymore, so they don't feel anything.

Hell, it could be like hair and nails, for all we know. You can pull your hair and feel it on your skin, but your actual hair doesn't feel anything.

yup

fruits are technically like semen and ovaries.

OP is nasty

 

[DropTopDoc]

When grass gets cut it releases a chemical to let it be known, there was a tree that they planted in Florida to help drain the swamps, when they tried to cut them down, they would release their nuts to assure you couldn’t get rid of them

 

[StretfordRed]

They are a growing lifeforms. I think they feel pain when plucked, maybe not when eaten

 

[Complexion]

..decided to hook the plant up to his lie-detection machine.

In human subjects, a polygraph measures three things: pulse, respiration rate and galvanic skin response, otherwise known as perspiration. If you're worried about being caught in a lie, your levels will spike or dip. Backster wanted to induce a similar anxiety in the plant, so he decided to set one of its leaves on fire. But before he could even get a match, the polygraph registered an intense reaction on the part of the Dracaena. To Backster, the implication was as indisputable as it was unbelievable. Not only had the plant demonstrated fear it had also read his mind.

Cleve Backster Talked to Plants. And They Talked Back.

plant perception (a.k.a. the Backster effect) - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com

Nature is smarter than people think..

 

[Neuromancer]

They have a nervous system so yeah.