Do Plants Have Feelings?
October 2nd 2008 21:00
This is another one of life’s big mysteries. Because plants don’t make sounds, we tend to assume although they are living, they don’t have feelings. Just imagine how people’s eating habits would change if they knew plants had feelings. For example, if flowers could scream when people tried to pick them, maybe that would make you think twice before plucking one out from the garden. What would vegetarians do? If the whole concept behind vegetarianism is not eating meat as that involves killing a living animal with feelings, wouldn’t that also apply to plants if they had feelings?
This reminds me of an episode of In Search Of… I saw when I was a kid. In the episode, researchers played rock music to one set of plants and classical music to another set. The plants that were exposed to rock music slowly bent backwards, away from the speakers while the plants that were exposed to classical music moved their stems towards the speakers. If this doesn’t prove that plants have perceptions – and possibly feelings – I don’t know what does.
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Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis
I was considering becoming a vegetarian when I read a book by a pagan woman who talked about the sounds of static coming from a lettuce as she tore it up, and how personal it felt harvesting bean sprouts she'd grown. Ive grown a lot of things and plants struggle, fight and glory in their lives just like we do.
Supposedly, vegetarianisim is now about the inhumane treatment of animals in feedlots and abbottiors, but it used to be about the fact that animals had feelings. I think its why people find it hard to take the 'cause' seriously, as it changes from person to person.
Comment by Queenie
Quirky Folk
Quirky Queenie