Don't plants feel pain? This also is sometimes posed as, "Where do you draw
the line? Rights for roaches?" So far, as best we can determine biologically
and physiologically, plants do not feel pain. They are alive and have some
sort of response to light, water, etc., but they don't feel pain. Pain
requires a brain, a central nervous system, pain receptors, and so on. All
mammals, birds, and fish have these things. No plants do. We all know this
to be true: We all understand that there is a fundamental difference between
cutting your lawn and lighting a cat's tail on fire and between breaking up
a head of lettuce and bashing a dog's head in. Birds, mammals, and fish are
made of flesh, bones, and fat, just as we are. They feel pain, just as we
do. I may not know quite where to draw the line. For example, I'm not sure
what a roach or an ant experiences. But I do know with 100 percent certainty
that intentionally inflicting suffering because of tradition, custom,
convenience, or a palate preference is unethical. And if we're eating meat,
dairy products, or eggs, we're intentionally causing suffering, for no good
reason


"PENMART01" > wrote in message
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> James McIninch > writes:
>
> >You're a hypocrite if you pan the consumption of animals yet still
support
> >the slaughter of vegatation. It's omnivory or autotrophy, anything else
is
> >just a sad delusion.
> >
> >(Incidentally, that's tongue and cheek, all).
>
> Um, that's tongue *in* cheek.
>
> Tongues and cheeks are in headcheese.
>
>
> M-W
> tongue in cheek
> Function: adverb
> Date: circa 1934
> : with insincerity, irony, or whimsical exaggeration
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