Plants and vegetarians: Did you also suffer plants?

The central nervous system
Plants do not have central nervous system, or anything similar to a brain. When we prick a finger with a thorn, that information is communicated by the nervous system to the brain, where the sensation of pain is generated. Therefore, only beings with a central nervous system can suffer and feel pleasure. A plant does not have anything like that allows suffering.
Plants also feel.
The fundamental difference is that psychologically a plant does not have a mental perception of his life. The animals are aware of being alive. Our life experience, hurt and suffering if we enjoy our existence. We flee from unpleasant feelings and avoid death.

A plant does not perceive their own existence. We can say metaphorically that no one in the stem of a plant, so we cannot harm anyone by cutting a leaf. To put it another way the plants are not subject of a life.

Why plants lack nervous system?

The reason is that their evolutionary survival strategy is different from most animals. The ability to feel pain is selected by evolution for animals can escape from possible dangers feature. If approaching fire fingers feel the pain that tells us that if the hand aside quickly suffer severe burns.


The plants, anchored as they are on earth, this mechanism would alarm them, not only unnecessary but also very harmful (imagines flee pain without power). Their survival strategy is completely different and does not require the capacity to suffer.
Why plants is one of the favorite themes of non-vegetarians?

Vegetarians have to answer countless times on plants, but rarely are sincere questions. For most saying plants also suffer it is a quick way to justify their consumption of meat, avoiding thinking seriously about it.

Keep in mind that in conversations often use certain false arguments that we know but they give us an advantage to be right. It is easy to suspect that behind plants also ... does not usually have a real interest in the fate of the plants.

We must always remember to talk about vegetarianism with someone not vegetarian generates many emotions. People often feel attacked, it is suggested that at every meal are committing an immoral act against animals. (So maybe the worst time to discuss these issues is the lunch). Anyway, the truth is that plants is an ill-considered quick exit against vegetarianism.

There are, however, other people with religious beliefs who sincerely give some importance to plant life as individuals. Before them, we are left to our own respect their opinion and showing them understand that even though they believe that plants feel this is not enough to kill the animals justification. It is nevertheless strange that someone be strongly concerned about the plants while the importance of vegetarianism and animal rights.

I hate to vegetables.
Vegetarians do not have special hobby to plants, there is simply no scientific certainty that we are hurting someone when we use them. If you discover that behind a plant there is an individual who fears for his life, vegetarians would be the first to have it in mind to look for alternatives to avoid harming them, as we have done with animals.