Can Plants Feel Pain? & More! Ask A Scientist #1

[@leventbahadrboran-rasyonel5876]

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[@adhidwiyana7106]

Thank you

[@williammorris8387]

THANK. YOU. Forget the plants, I was about to start feeling pain.

[@Alyosha-Popovich]

Thank you

[@yourpower8145]

Thank bro

[@gaddarBilla]

Thanks a lot brother

[@Christa-tl8jb]

Thank you for scientifically confirming that plants don’t feel pain. Now I can cut down the half dead Alberta spruce trees in my yard without feeling guilty. I left them there half dead for years feeling guilty that I would cause them pain if I cut them down.

[@dustinf49]

You are a beautiful person.

[@wilsonrivera2397]

What about emotional pain isn't the a way of suffering too?

[@husnainali2050]

What about germs and bacteria tou kill while breathing

[@prathameshgawade536]

🤣

[@munalemj]

The city will hit you with a couple thousand dollars fee for cutting that without telling them.

[@LB-uo7xy]

Other more current researchers have shown that plants do indeed feel pain, especially during draughts and when they are on fire or when trees are cut.

[@harrissbisby903]

Ok so.. stop eating?

[@zorubark]

People say cephalopods are very alien but plants are very alien too, they are life with a diffent cell than us, no brain, stays in the same place all the time and yet succeds and evolves deffenses and attacks, so cool

[@Metacognition88]

So would cutting a leaf be similar to when we cut hair? We are aware and feel it being cut but don’t feel pain and don’t care?

[@sebastianm.p.3430]

Almost. As far as I know, our hair doesn't try to defend itself in any way when cut, unlike a plant that might release toxins.

[@devangjain-1541]

Cutting leaf for no purpose will be wrong and if for some use or for betterment of plant is not bad.

[@sebastianm.p.3430]

@Doppelganger D Did you not watch the video? He says otherwise from 3:47 to 4:23. There have been studies, where they simply play a recording of the sound of bugs chewing on leaves, and then the plant reacts by releasing toxins. They don't necessarily "think" about doing it, but they do react to stimuli.

[@sampatkalyan3103]

@@sebastianm.p.3430 LoL your hair is not a sentient being or a different living thing.

[@sebastianm.p.3430]

@@sampatkalyan3103 Not at all what I said, but whatever.

[@JAPTHECAT]

He mention a little bit disco now I am imagining plants disco dancing 🕺

[@49ersfoldem]

Go ahead and tell people that’s what you saw… they gone put you in the insane asylum

[@49ersfoldem]

Bro, just imagine if you were in the sunflower garden and they were doing the disco dance for no apparent reason. That would be hell on earth!!

[@thecoffeetable8420]

I read somewhere that plants have consciousness and they store memories for some time.... how do they do that when they don't have brain? Regards #Ashishchandrana

[@isabelle9914]

I am not an expert, but maybe you don't need a brain to feel pain? Maybe a plant has a brain but we don't think it is because it does not work the same way.

[@fbmhmanchester]

You may be right about feeling pain without a brain, but you would then have to define pain differently. Likewise, a “plant brain” that works like ours but looks completely different would probably require a group of cells that is heavily networked and can process signals. Nothing remotely like that has been found in plants, and not for lack of trying. So we can’t think of a plant organ or tissue that would have the information processing capacity of a brain, but maybe we’re not looking in the right place.

[@mgabrielle2343]

You do need a brain and consciousness to feel pain. If you put your finger in a flame, it will hurt you and you would know it is a burning sensation, but if you do happen to cut off your finger in an accident, you could BBQ your finger and you won't feel any pain because finger is no longer connected to your nervous system, and has lost all contact with brain and with your conscious that resides in your brain. (Don't cut your finger to prove this point! ) I was 4 years old when I did my first experiment on feeling pain, my father had a boil on his big toe, he asked my mum to lobe off the top part of the boil and all that puss inside oozed out, she sliced the top of the boil and left at the side, all the while I was watching her do this, she went to get some more cotton wool to clean the wound, in the mean time I picked up that piece of flesh that was top part of the boil, and took it in my mouth and bit it as hard as I could whilst observing my father's face for any reaction, he was not watching me do this, or he would have stopped me I am sure, and I noticed he did not screamed or felt any pain, whereas I thought he might scream mad when I bit into that flesh. But instead it was my mother who screamed mad at me when she realised what i was doing, I had no idea how disgusting and full of germs that bit of flesh I had put in my mouth! this was my first scientific experiment at age 4 and quite a set back as my mother stopped me in my tracks!

[@ali09gaming58]

@@fbmhmanchester Why would you redefine pain ? scientists should research the fact that pain could be relative to the species, meaning some organisms may need a ''brain'' to feel pain and some may not. As this video states that plants do show signs of self defense when attacked, so maybe there is pain associated that requires them to defend or it stimulates their defenses.

[@sstein4777]

I think you are right. We are so anthropocentric that we tend to define other species based on what we are

[@husnainali2050]

@Paradoxical Nightmare hahahah

[@marujitadiaz9019]

4:40 - 6:45 It isn't any "allergic response" but a type IV (delayed type) hypersensitivity reaction. It isn't an IgE-mediated reaction but a cell-mediated (T-cell mediated) reaction.

[@fbmhmanchester]

You’re right, although even experts call this antibody-independent response “allergic contact dermatitis”. The responses to poison ivy can be as severe as those in classical allergies (type I hypersensitivity), including in rare cases anaphylaxis.

[@legitretarded5677]

I apologise for the extremely late question but I have a question I just want to ask a lot. Is it possible that there exists a nervous system in plants that is entirely different from those of humans and animals but exists. As in how we humans have responses, sense , reactions, thoughts and memories due to our nervous system and the nerve impulses could there be a similar in function but different in composition nervous system for plants ? And what of one that may involve 'voluntary' reactions if it may exist.If this is unlikely to exist then are you implying that plants reaction to stimuli (like in the case of a Venus fly trap, mimosa, the wall nut trees anti competition response etc) function not as a system but a direct impulse between receptor to effector organs (don't know if it's the right word) in a involuntary manner. If humans entire stimulus, sense and nervous system is based on transfer via electrochemical nerve impulse then is it also the same for the plants? (Electrochemical cell impulses?) And lastly in an episode of mythbusters when testing a polygraph machine with leaves the plant responds to 1) physical stimulus 2) mental thought. (Basically he thinks of burning the plant and it reacts) What are your thoughts and opinions on this ^

[@SaminaHanif.]

Exactly, I believe that plants feel pain but science is not that modern enough to understand their pain

[@KrystalessR]

​@@SaminaHanif.I don't think it would be realistic for their existence for plants to feel pain. Likely the main reason for animals to feel pain is so they can get away from it (run, fight...etc). Plants cannot run, therefore there would be no "reason" for them to feel. (This video said the same thing.)

[@deb2607]

​@@KrystalessR Can a new born deer calf run away from a lion? No right? Does that mean the baby calf does not feel pain? Plants not being able to run away doesn't mean it doesn't feel any sort of pain or displeasure but since they are born that way to be static and feed humans and other herbivores, otherwise this whole ecosystem will collapse.

[@harrissbisby903]

You are not describing the results of the Myth Busters episode accurately.

[@harrissbisby903]

I looked up the summary because your comment made me curious. The polygraph reacted on third of the time but they think it might have been vibrations from their actions or the room. They isolated the plant and still got a reaction 1/3 of the time. Later experiments with an EEG showed no reaction. They concluded that the results weren't repeatable. le

[@harjapvirk6055]

wow amazing answers and well spoken sir thanks for the video!!!

[@spurthichadharam9144]

Plants and animals have feelings, so I think we can reduce methods which creates pain and negative energy

[@muhammadferdy7918]

They both have feelings but in my opinion plants feelings not including pain, maybe more like emotion

[@largestbrain]

tf is "negative energy?" negative feelings are just things our brain associates with linguistic phrases that communicate a negative meaning. Plants can't perceive things through a brain, so there is no such difference to a plant between positive and negative energy.

[@muhammadferdy7918]

@@largestbrain shut up, plants have feelings

[@largestbrain]

You know feelings come from your brain, right? All emotions come from the interactions of neurons in your brain. Plants have no organ even remotely close to a brain.

[@muhammadferdy7918]

@@largestbrain plants have they own brain, not similiar with us

[@sstein4777]

They respond to agressions. What else do you need to know?

[@lanve5691]

is way more complex than that, many things that aren't precisely alive physically react to things and it doesn't mean that they feel pain

[@sstein4777]

@Gajkrupa 2020 Going beyond the linguistic formal term, the fact that they react means aggressions have an effect on them, and not precisely a good one because they react different to positive stimulae. Pain is a human concept. You can call it differently but plants "feel"

[@sstein4777]

@Gajkrupa 2020 because as anthropocentric humans name it like that and can't "experience" what they do.

[@cubixsgaming7230]

Reacting to stimuli is very different than feeling pain.

[@49ersfoldem]

Are you saying that mother nature is disciplining her children?

[@greyskullacademy8799]

Cool. I don’t have to feel bad about eating them.

[@aritrakumardas2386]

Plant have feelings was demonstrated by Jagadish Chandra Bose in London

[@proudatheist.rising.9448]

I have seen many videos experiments on plants every experiment showed plants has reactions wt we r doing with it.some said plants can not only feel pain but also they talk to each other ,nd they memory last for 40 days,they can recognise their killers also..some plants in deep sea they hunt small fishes

[@phyclopsphyclops]

It is in fact quite easy to show that plants react to changes in the environment. They react to light, temperature and many other factors, for example rain. We can detect that by simply measuring the electrical currents that flow in their bodies, very similar to those we measure in human heart-, muscle- and braincells. This has been known since the discovery of electricity. But only today we can measure this easily, with off-the-shelf parts. I am continuing this research: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqPPiqmQbb52kKc

[@sudhirpatil3922]

I think the explanation given in the video about evolution and pain looks rite . Why would nature give both pain and inability to respond to plants. May be the magnitude of pain you feel is related to your ability to respond .At least I would like to believe this since I am a vegetarian :).

[@euphoric1183]

The "pain" that plants feel isnt like the "pain" animals and humans feel. İ dont know if you can call it "pain" in the first place.

[@bjornicjonisson3362]

@@euphoric1183 and yet doesn't mean plants "pain" is inferior to human pain and animals. Who knows

[@euphoric1183]

@@bjornicjonisson3362 the "pain" that plants feel is like a sensory response to things that might hurt them. For example, if you tear a leaf of a plant, the plant will send stimulant responses to itself, warning itself "they are tearing my leafs". Altough that sensory response wont be like "pain" that you feel if someone were to tear or hurt your arm. So, who knows. We dont know how plants feel pain but we can only guess.

[@bjornicjonisson3362]

@@euphoric1183 well scientists use human standard definition of pain, and I know it's gonna different from human. Maybe in the future we will know when technology is more advanced

[@euphoric1183]

@@bjornicjonisson3362 maybe, perhaps

[@hamzamuhammed3]

pain is reflected in the human body as chemical reactions, plants also have a chemical reaction when we pluck a leaf or cut a branch, thus they do experience pain in some way, maybe in a different way to us. Just because we can't understand what their pain is like does not mean they don't feel/experience it. For example, a chemical reaction when we cut grass is a signal of injury and some plants start to stimulate the formation of new cells while others act as antibiotics that prevent bacterial infection and inhibit fungal growth. So I don't agree that plants don't feel pain.

[@rishabh6523]

They react to it but u can not call it PAIN

[@DashingDino01]

@@rishabh6523 because you don’t feel pain the same way? Plants cannot run or anything, therefor they don’t feel pain specifically the same way we do, so therefor it doesn’t matter to you?

[@rishabh6523]

@@DashingDino01 so youre basically trying to say that cutting the throat of an animal and cutting carrots are the same thing?

[@DashingDino01]

@@rishabh6523 possibly, maybe it’s exact the same, might be even worse, who are you exactly to tell me yes or no? Same way I cannot say for sure, but you cannot deny that neither of us and no human can understand or hear a plant, therefor cannot say with certainty that they do not feel pain or speak

[@rishabh6523]

@@DashingDino01 ridiculous. Ik you dont really care about plants but have suddenly become a "Plant-activist" just to justify meat eating bcoz u can not give up murdering animals for ur taste buds LMAO. Go study in 10th grade... what an idiot

[@commoncitizen246]

Thanks for confirming that plants do feel pain but they can't express it like other animals.

[@anmol7060]

You didn’t understand. Plants can sense injury and can show response but that’s not “pain” , not the uncomfortable sensation that we feel . It’s like knowing something’s wrong but not feeling pain

[@totallyanonymousbish9599]

Obviously you didn't understand what he said.

[@amirshoeb7215]

@@anmol7060 So, it's something like giving local anesthesia to our body

[@anmol7060]

@@amirshoeb7215 in anaesthesia a human can still be conscious about everything else . That’s because other parts of our brain (except pain & other senses) are working well . But plants don’t have a brain or anything like that . There’s no organ in plants that takes signals from other parts and processes it to “think” something. It’s just a chain of chemical reactions leading to some responses . Something Like a machine giving response without “thinking”

[@amirshoeb7215]

@@anmol7060Those reactions still give a clear indication that a plant also wants to live and wants our hands off of it. Still we kill and eat it.

[@MobileDecay]

Yesterday I was eating a salad and it started screaming and crying. I was like"I'm so sorry!!!" And I gave the salad a big hug and started massaging it with ranch dressing.

[@yugimutou9762]

Such versatile organism, created so many ways for themselves to survive this cruel world. Plant life is no less than animal. I eat both, not pick one over another.

[@phyclopsphyclops]

It is in fact quite easy to show that plants react to changes in the environment. They react to light, temperature and many other factors, for example rain. We can detect that by simply measuring the electrical currents that flow in their bodies, very similar to those we measure in human heart-, muscle- and braincells. This has been known since the discovery of electricity. But only today we can measure this easily, with off-the-shelf parts. I am continuing this research: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqPPiqmQbb52kKc

[@powere4r]

My skin also feels pain when exposed to UV because it reacts to that stimulus and produces melanin to protect itself...

[@Atypical_Chad]

Your skin actually doesn't feel pain, your nerves send that signal to your brain. If you get rid of your nervous system, then "pain" would no longer be a thing that you feel. Your skin may still react to a stimulus, but the "pain" sensors wouldn't be there to tell you, the brain, to get the fk out of that situation.

[@powere4r]

​@@Atypical_Chad I know that the skin reacts to UV radiation without actually involving your nervosu sytem. I just wanted to make fun of plant rights activists who claim that plants feel pain, by telling that my own skin feels pain too, as if it is an organism on its own and has a short of nervous system, just as plant right activists assume for plants. I know that a fully functional central nervous system has to be present for a biological system to feel pain.

[@Atypical_Chad]

Oooh my bad lol. I missed the mocking tone. I gotcha

[@Atypical_Chad]

@@powere4r I think I've read/heard too many comments from ppl making the ridiculous argument that plants feel pain. I can't distinguish between a mocking statement and someone who just isn't bright 😅

[@powere4r]

@@Atypical_Chad I might have written it in a misleading way too, don't worry :P

[@AnishaFoodFlavours]

Wao.... Nice sir. Very informative. Stay connected😊

[@49ersfoldem]

This some Rick and Morty shit. Holl up that’ll be uh a good epi bruh

[@d.6832]

"BuT PlAnTs FeeL PaIn ToO!!!!"

[@AveRay_]

Well... you dont necessarily need a brain to feel pain. Half of our CNS is our spinal cord, which help to feel pain by electrical signals from neurones

[@Artur-hg1qg]

Well I mean plants can talk but they don’t have a mouth.

[@bjornicjonisson3362]

@@Artur-hg1qg well plants do communicate with each other. Talking is human communications, using human standard define plant is just irrelevant. Science is just work model not 100% truths

[@Doug_Fany]

02:57 (about pain) I know they don't have brain, at least not a "brain" like ours, but what makes the electrical signal and what processes it?

[@weirdguy9209]

The nerves

[@RaDiRLYT]

@@weirdguy9209 and the nerves are connected to? 😏

[@taqiraza1077]

specialized fibers - which are located in skin, muscles, joints, and some organs - transmit pain signals from the periphery to the brain, where the message of pain is ultimately perceived. The brain itself does not feel pain because there are no nociceptors located in brain tissue itself.

[@frankyf7905]

Yea Plants Can Feel Pain Cuzz Plant is Living Object/Plant Like Us

[@dryluckycharms6180]

Vegan teacher: "plants don't feel pain"

[@largestbrain]

the one thing she's correct about

[@Isaiah-hm7br]

That's why I'm here

[@arian6565]

@@largestbrain no shes correct about everything, are u brainwashed or something?

[@weirdguy9209]

So you idiots have been confirmed now please go vegan

[@zuhairiahmed3945]

plants can trigger sort of its defence mechanism in response to threat just means that it too doesn't want to be eaten, but the vegan eats them anyway.

[@NamesChuck]

Vegans consume fewer plants than omnivores when accounting for the tons and tons of plant feed given to the animals y'all consume.

[@Genetixmyco]

..... You are kind of a peice of crap you know

[@Genetixmyco]

true but they don't feel pain anyway so who cares this guy's dumb af

[@sephatu]

@Sienna s "better" is the exact sign of hubris and hypocrisy since the moral stance of veganism is shaky and presumptuous at best. Plants want to live just as any living being. Pain is just one of many biological defense mechanisms.

[@shashwatkumar4204]

Fuck terrorist ALLAH

[@weirdguy9209]

Well, I'm gonna paraphrase you a bit here you said, "Plants don't feel pain the same way we humans and other animals do". Basically saying they don't feel pain or perhaps don't have a brain to express it than intensely. Plants do have nerves however I don't know if that feels pain... My question is, does pain include loss of carbon dioxide eg. When someone's choking etc. Do they not feel pain in that sense too? Are plants able to suffocate?

[@mgabrielle2343]

Glad that you confirmed my own theory that plants cannot feel pain since they do not have a nervous system and a brain, because pain is realised inside your brain, so plants evolved to survive by means of feedback , if for example the roots can't find water in soil, they will grow quickly to find water, sun flower has sensors that will make it face the sunlight, they sense gravity and so know which way is up, but having said this, they actually do not have a gravity sensing but use other senses such as feel air, wet soil, or temperature difference to determine which is up, if a seed starts to germinate downwards, it will soon sense that it is heading into the earth rather than coming out of it up through, by means of temperature difference , plants grow by instructions from DNA, their role is to grow and grow AND send chemical signal for their survival, but they do not have brains to feel pain, we can eat them without any conviction, they are meant to be eaten. Animals are not.

[@fbmhmanchester]

Plants sense temperature, drought and light, and so do we (and other animals). Because we have evolved separately, the way we sense the environment and respond is slightly different. Occasionally though, similar ‘engineering solutions’ have emerged independently. You may be intrigued to learn that plants do indeed sense gravity in a way that is not so different from ours: blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/roots-down-shoots-up-but-how-does-a-plant-know-which-is-which/

[@yy-ws9qm]

M Gabrielle do jellyfish and starfish feel pain? Seeing how they dont have brains.

[@yy-ws9qm]

M Gabrielle "they are meant to be eaten, animals are not" Well not really true....not all plants are consumable for one (if you eat oak trees do tell how). Some plants are carnivorous and eat animals such as insects, frogs, and mice. And of course im sure you know what a predator is. As far as your personal conviction that is subjective and taught/ an evolved emotional response more or less. A human is omnivorous and can survive eating either.

[@mgabrielle2343]

Let me google to see if jelly fish has any brain and nervous system, I thought they didn't and I was right. I did think they had basic proximity sensors which tells them if they are in danger or an intruder may be around so they could automatically respond to any intruder, just by "cause and action" mechanism or autonomous system of respond . For example if you make simple self drive toy car, you may have given it sensors such that when it sees an obstruction it stops and automatically goes back a short distance and then turns right or left and proceeds and if it sees an obstruction again, it does the same again, and again, and it may even have a light sensor that responds to changing light or shadows and so one can programme it to do whatever when it sees light intensity becoming brighter or dimmers, so this toy car does not have brain or even artificial brian, and cannot feel pain even if it is crushed by anything. so here is the google answer for jelly fish: "jellyfish don't have a brain or central nervous system, they do have a very basic set of nerves at the base of their tentacles. These nerves detect touch, temperature, salinity etc. and the jellyfish reflexively respond to these stimuli.most likely they don't have but work on senses (proximity senses) when a predator is near they release defensive mechanism, autonomous system

[@mgabrielle2343]

I don't think anyone can eat any tree if at all, but we can eat its fruits, and may be bark, etc, but certainly not a whole tree. Oak tree produces acorns which are not suitable for humans but other creatures such as squirrels can eat them. Not all animals are meant to be eaten, certainly not pigs and cows. Both are banned by two major religions.

[@Jindgi_ki_pathshala]

Sir J. C. Bose, the Indian Scientist worked on "life in plants in 1902.Bose strongly believed that plants had a sensitive nervous system, not unlike that of animals, and that their responses to external stimuli could be measured and recorded. His belief was strengthened by the results of his experiments. Encouraged by the results of this experiment, Bose began studying how plants behave differently under different environmental factors such as temperature, chemicals, electricity, gases and humidity. The more responses he got from his plants, the more detailed his efforts became. Bose was astounded to discover that an electric death spasm occurs in plants when they die, and that the actual moment of death in a plant could be accurately recorded. As he later wrote: “All around us, the plants are communicating. We just don’t notice it.” Determined to reveal the wonders of plant perception to the world, Bose described his experiments and their results in his 1902 paper,” Responses in the Living and Non-Living”. He wrote how plants grew more quickly when exposed to nice music and gentle whispers, and poorly when exposed to harsh music and loud speech. He even mentioned how plants became depressed when exposed to polluted air and darkening skies. In short, his work showed that plants could feel pleasure and they could feel pain. (Source: www.thebetterindia.com/76587/jagdish-chandra-bose-indian-biophysicist-radio-plant-physiology/#:~:text=Bose%20strongly%20believed%20that%20plants,in%20bromide%20(a%20poison).

[@antonyxaviour4685]

Sir J.C. Bose believe is not acceptable everything.plant has Life not have sence to realise pain.. the statement from great Tamilnadu 150 year Saint Ramalinga adigalar vallar said plant has Life and soul but have no sense to realise plain like hair and nails cut to human..

[@blackwatchpilot5329]

This is the same issue that we have when speculating about the Fermi Paradox. Would we even recognize how other life communicates? And for Heaven's sake we're related to plants! We developed on the same planet from the same ancestor and yet we treat these lifeforms as totally insignificant unless there is a material/recreational need from them.

[@mathematicssinging]

Yeah so what to believe? They feel pain or not?🤔...

[@Jindgi_ki_pathshala]

@@mathematicssinging Yes they do.

[@weirdguy9209]

Dude that's not a good source are you kidding me? 🤣

[@youfoundme7404]

If plants don't feel pain, why would they evolve defensive system then?

[@theghostofsunflower2760]

To protect them from herbivores .....to grow n reproduce

[@youfoundme7404]

@@theghostofsunflower2760 Herbivores? Killing is killing. It doesn't matter whether you are herbivore or omnivore.

[@nerdykeith]

The same reason an organism evolves

[@sagarikasinha5746]

Every living thing will find a way to survive. Plants do the same. It makes absolutely no sense for plants to feel pain. I mean what's next? Bacteria feel pain? Viruses feel pain? These can be extremely pathogenic and they have their own mechanisms to proliferate and survive too! Biologically, these living things won't have any use of pain. We have to understand that reaction to stimuli doesn't automatically equal ability to sense pain.

[@John17TheOGmp4]

I don't want to look at the recent comments

[@3rdaxis609]

If plants dont know pain. How could they produce thorns ? N itchy things ? without knowing what it is ?

[@shirogami4224]

Every life form does that,even bacteria does that even tho they Don't have the complexity requirements to feel pain. Just because you can react to changes in environment doesn't mean it is a necessity to feel pain.they react to changes in environment and mutate/adapt for a greater chance in survival

[@asrieldreemurr3832]

@@shirogami4224 they do scream when being eaten, but it’s impossible to hear without scientific tools.

[@shirogami4224]

@@asrieldreemurr3832 nahh we don't have enough evidence to reach that conclusion

[@asrieldreemurr3832]

@@shirogami4224 yes. We. DO.

[@shirogami4224]

@@asrieldreemurr3832 we don't.

[@SashyGryphyth]

Fight or flight is triggered by adrenaline, but pain itself is triggered by injury or illness and in turn triggers a chain event of healing and varied defences, so it makes sense to see a plant defending itself and healing itself through the electrical signals (which don't just occur in the brain btw, but ask any medical scientist that only looks at a part of the body like it explains the whole system and you get that bias that comes with it.) Ask someone else about the gut brain or the nerve system elsewhere in the body and try to incorporate that info in. The definition of brain gets less certain in those discussions. Lol If worried about plant pain being a reason not to eat them I think that's unrealistic. The ecosystem never cared about this. In fact it's encouraged because of a need to clean up and keep life cycles healthy. It's humans that don't know what to do with waste, not nature. Some plants react to being cut to stimulate new growth and so like sheep now some grow so much through that evolution they need regular trimming. It's the plants facing a crisis that are more likely to arm themselves, like the grass did all those years ago when bovine nearly ate it into extinction. Now we have grass that can shred your insides if you eat it. This doesn't even mention the plants that can eat meat. Lol Even some plants refused veganism. Go figure. Point is don't feel guilty. It's just good if we can be aware of the overall system we impact. Most creatures don't get to experience that awareness, so we're lucky to witness wonders.

[@Gizmo_Furry]

Damn, i had no idea plants needed oxygen, you learn something new everyday

[@wushitushi3968]

Fking idiot 😂

[@Gizmo_Furry]

@@wushitushi3968 or just a fact i didnt know, and it was just something new to learn

[@wushitushi3968]

@@Gizmo_Furry at least you know now

[@Gizmo_Furry]

@@wushitushi3968 that is true

[@Lina-tm3kp]

@@wushitushi3968 stfu

[@sadmamdoh1339]

Vegetarian will love this argument

[@dalaojirenwu]

Just because they dont fell pain，so you have that power to kill them？

[@wingsofsteel8666]

very interesting

[@NurembergSwampWater]

Watches video of daily dose of internet at 3 in the morning and sees plant take self defense releasing calcium... Ends up here to see if plants feel pain.

[@sanjubaba3996]

Ok so the comment section is now a battlefield for ....... Vegetarians vs nonvegetarians

[@harrissbisby903]

Yes and parts of it are frankly disturbing AF

[@rejowanahmed6819]

I've a question. Plants don't have brain. We have brain. And we know that the most of the works in our body happens in the command of brain. So, how trees grow? How does it grow in the direction of light? What thing stimulates it? If you say It's DNA. Then why can't we say that plants feel nature and pains through DNA?

[@theghostofsunflower2760]

Genetic info in their cell

[@largestbrain]

we don't feel things through DNA. we don't need a brain or any thinking power to grow, digest things, have a pumping heart, and fight infections. All cells have a set of commands automatically triggered by strings of glucose attached to peripheral receptor proteins.

[@ameygade1977]

Even amoeba has the intelligence to grow,that doesn’t mean it sense pain. We define life as “response to stimuli and ability to reproduce “ ; pain isn’t something that is a necessity to “being”

[@numbaoneblahajjfan]

Bro one day in the future , instead of pushing veganism they gonna be saying plants can feel pain and we just need to not eat

[@dexterboro1836]

Thank you from now I am starting to go vegetarian because I don't want to kill innocent animal for my selfish life😊

[@playeral3rb747]

Wtf is the point , plants feel pain too

[@dexterboro1836]

@@playeral3rb747 don't wory I eat everything

[@dexterboro1836]

@@playeral3rb747 are u in kindergarten plants don't feel pain

[@playeral3rb747]

@@dexterboro1836 lmfao , did you even watch the video?

[@hashtheory]

@@playeral3rb747 re-watch the video again.

[@chaosclg]

There's a 1979 experiment that shows plants displaying memory and showing some reaction to pain, interesting stuff check it out.

[@anands4525]

Please give me one article which proves that and which has been approved by any bench or organization or group of scientists.

[@guyatfood2]

Great now I have to be vegan

[@nicolemarek3195]

However everything we eat has some.sort of energy. It just makes me sad.

[@user-lj3hg6nl8e]

2:58 (do plants feel pain)

[@adonissss3782]

I suddenly feel bad for plants that drown

[@cloud9photography126]

so if a plant cant feel pain because it cant feel due to no brain, then why does a venus flytrap close when i fly lands in it......it FEELS the fly and closes....

[@A.R.C.77]

If there was no pain then there wouldn't be a reaction

[@TheWhovinerd-1963]

I am a proud supporter of vegetarianism and Veganism and personally feel that they get a very bad rap despite them doing nothing wrong. I can’t help but look at Plants not only from a Scientific perspective but also a philosophical and ethical point of view. Comparing an animal to a plant 🌱 is an unfair comparison because, the twos biology differs greatly. While perhaps in a way trees don’t feel pain the same way that animals and humans do I personally still believe that trees are aware of what happens to them. I love trees 🌳 I have done since I was a kid and I even used to talk to them because no one seemed to care about them but me. I also love animals tbh I love both plants 🌱 and Animals more than humans (not because I believe humans are unimportant) but because we are a very ignorant and arrogant species. Plants are one of the most important parts of the ecosystem without them we would live in even harsher conditions. I value all life regardless of its intelligence or it’s species. Animals are also harmed in the long run by plant 🌱 consumption and deforestation because many animals live in these natural environments so again they are very important to our ecosystem. I try to look after them as much as I can because they are a strong symbol of nature, we as humans have a responsibility to reduce the amount of Animals and plants that we kill on a daily basis to cut down carbon omissions and save our planet 🌎, learning to finally coexist with life on this planet in peace ☮️ and harmony. Please try to be as echo friendly as you can. All it takes is one person to make a difference xx

[@TheCycloneTrooper]

Agreed fully, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Glad to know like-minded people exist in the world.

[@manofculture8666]

I think "plants don't feel pain because they have no brain" depends on what we regard as pain. In terms of evolution, pain is a stress signal to alert us of potential danger that could harm us. Plants have that. There are plants that release certain chemicals when in danger. They don't have to say "ouch" for us to know they're in pain.. to a plant, that chemical response is ITS PAIN. Nature isn't centered around human biology.

[@jirosampang158]

No.

[@manofculture8666]

@@jirosampang158 Brilliant response 👍

[@manofculture8666]

@@jirosampang158 Issue is we live in a snowflake world where everything is about feelings, and people relate physical pain with emotions. Pain is not an emotion, it is an instinctive reaction to ensure survival. Plants have that too. I'm sure every living thing feels pain in their own way.

[@jirosampang158]

@@manofculture8666 simply no.

[@jirosampang158]

@@manofculture8666 its just my opinion.

[@zachscombat]

When we talk about dont kill animal for food. A muslim argues that why do you kill plant, they also have life,

[@creasybaguette419]

Yeah yeah nice story.. now pass me the cauliflower I'm hungry.

[@hotxhotguy]

Pass me that steak too. :P

[@lm10thegreatest88]

They dont feel pain the way we do, but that doesnt justify us to cut them :)

[@yodant2836]

Alright then what are we supposed to do Mr. I haveth a big juicy brain? You're complaining about the problem yet you're not giving a single solution

[@lm10thegreatest88]

@@yodant2836 to eat veg and nonveg

[@yodant2836]

@@lm10thegreatest88 How does that solve anything?

[@lm10thegreatest88]

@@yodant2836 what the hell r u saying;

[@yodant2836]

@@lm10thegreatest88 I don't know, what the hell are you saying mister?

[@nicolemarek3195]

I.am sorry hiw.does any one know a plant which is energy cant feel anything just as we are energy. No person has ever been a plant, however maybe we have and don't know.

[@pigfloyd4284]

roma from gatti uomo was here

[@teesense5502]

My plants hate me

[@vivekkumarsingh481]

Sorry sir I believe strongly they feel everything and future will discover this I am 100% sure .

[@blackwolf3806]

insightful, thanks

[@mahsas9547]

Plants don't have lungs, but they breathe. A plant doesn't have a brain, but it has memory. So I think it can be possible for plants to feel pain.

[@Artur-hg1qg]

They don’t have a mouth but can talk.

[@mahsas9547]

@@eel900 do you have any scientific proof that what I said is wrong?

[@mahsas9547]

​@@eel900 Nobody has to believe me. People can go and do their own research. Take it easy pal.

[@flaminghell9572]

@@Artur-hg1qg communicate*

[@Artur-hg1qg]

@@flaminghell9572 You knew what I meant.

[@Jellybeantiger]

Plants have feelings too.

[@MrJosuesini]

Hahahahahaahahaha

[@Jellybeantiger]

@@MrJosuesini Vegan murderers.

[@steved5960]

I have no brains and yet I can feel pain.... checkmate scientists!

[@hero303-gameplayindonesia8]

Slef burn, those are rare

[@DarkKnight-or9yc]

You know what else that don't have a brain but can feel pain? Your waifu

[@OttoAce]

do ants feel pain? same question.. 😅😅

[@Psartz]

we need to stop feeding our animals plants because its a sin we are hurting plants.we need treat plants as pets and keep them next to us like pets.

[@itkojecockot]

ok, lets assume that plants don't feel pain...... then my question to vegans would be: if I start killing animals PAINLESSLY, is it ok in that case ??? can I have giant farm supplying McDonald's if my animal slaughter will be pianless ???

[@siddhu5534]

yes

[@Lina-tm3kp]

You can't slaughter an animal painlessly lol.

[@siddhu5534]

@@Lina-tm3kp we can

[@Lina-tm3kp]

@@siddhu5534 how

[@theghostofsunflower2760]

@@Lina-tm3kp may be he some kind of neural doc....cutting nervous system before havving chicken nuggets

[@danieldronzek8616]

Someone send this to Vegan Teacher

[@proudatheist.rising.9448]

How much bacteria we eat daily 😂😀

[@NeekSquad]

Everything is alive and feel pain

[@GeneralArmorus]

ok now we can all go vegan

[@senkyou]

you are wrong at 3:00 ; kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHmalKNno9Z7gg watch here to learn how they react as humans feel pain. Different but same purpose. Plants are stable living beings that is why they do not need to feel pain. So they developed and evolved into something else.

[@sokka47]

Plants feel pain. Of course.

[@MrJosuesini]

No, they don´t. Stop saying nonsense.

[@siddhu5534]

@@MrJosuesini shut up

[@siddhu5534]

@@MrJosuesiniare you stupid? humans are not the most complex organisms.plants are. We have a brain to feel anything.They dont have a brain and they dont have a nervous system.yet,they can communicate with roots they are more intelligent that you think.when you cut grass it gives a distress signal in the form of a smell.cut an onion or garlic your eyes burn because its a distress signal.So shut up

[@siddhu5534]

@Ok are you still there my guy

[@misterauctor7353]

@@MrJosuesini Yes, they do.

[@anasasim3856]

I don't agree you need a brain to feel pain. When I last saw Jake Paul's fight, he was in pain too.

[@mathematicssinging]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣lol👏👏👏

[@RighteousnessWillPrevail]

Eating meat is wrong for humans fir sure because animals feel pain but humans are omivores which means we can survive by consuming non meat biological material. We have been blesses with a choice. Animals or plants. We're not cursed like carnivores who have to murder of animals in order to survive just to murder another day. If you truly want to avoid causing another creature pain in this world, stop worring about weather your gunna hurt a plant or not and instead become a non meat eater. You'll feel spiritually terrific for the choice in each passing day. There are a great number of plants out there that want fauna to eat parts of them like apple trees for example. Human eats apple from tree, then poops somewhere in the wilderness thus planting seeds in a new location because seeds are designed to survive the digestion process. Bats in South America spread plant seeds all over the place because the seeds survive in their poop. Evolution has found ways to spread their plant kin far and wide to ensure survival. Being Vegetarian is a great way to live. Feels absolutely wonderful to follow the Vegetarian path.

[@misterauctor7353]

Eating meat is right. Evolution says so.

[@RighteousnessWillPrevail]

@@misterauctor7353 Actually evolution says we are not. Because if you for example eat Pig's, Cows, Chickens Raw and plenty of other Fauna. You will either get very sick or die. And we don't have hunting teeth. There's your proof. We only eat meat because we cheat evolution by using fire or extreme heat to cool the flesh to make it safe and digestible for our weak stomachs and frail immune systems. The truth is is that the human race is actually getting weaker against the natural world because we keep inventing new medicines and technologies to help fight off dangerous bacteria ect. But in doing so, we don't allow are bodies to naturally adapt to the harshness of the natural world. If you keep a ridiculously clean house and stay there often, you increase your chances of getting sick becsuse you make your immune system lazy and undisciplined. The more luxurious of pleasantries we indulge in and the longer we do in life. The more and more we lose disapline. That's why when people live in times of peace, they develop weaker willpower and disapline. Same goes for sickness. You have to purposely expose yourself to suffering and harshness in order to keep a strong body and spirit.

[@meyerbigalbal7978]

I don't know ifni should trust this guy lmao he exactly look like murray from impractical jokers 🤣

[@robiulahmed]

9 vegans watched this video.

[@iwonthesitatebitch5315]

20 as of now

[@southsidefronto]

We must stop vegans at all costs

[@CEarthling]

Go Vegan without guilt.

[@UrHomie737]

And die with a 5.1 height, no thanks I don't wanna be vegan.

[@CEarthling]

@@UrHomie737 Joaquin Phoenix is a Vegan since he was just 3 years old. So R.I.P to your foolishness. Choose Compassion. Be Kind to Animals. Be Vegan. Meat is Murder.

[@UrHomie737]

@@CEarthling Oh yeah? Then I am proud to be a murderer, and you know what? I just ate a beef burger like 5 minutes ago without any guilt at all haha.

[@CEarthling]

@@UrHomie737 How poor Sadist you are! Eating Corpses...With no compassion. Pity for you.

[@syedirfan-jj7fh]

be breif

[@barbaraibiel]

Plants don't feel pain. Stop saying this nonsense!

[@misterauctor7353]

Plants do feel pain.

[@barbaraibiel]

@@misterauctor7353 Do you have any scientific evidence that plants feel pain, or are we supposed to just take your word for it? And tell me. What do plants need pain for? Imagine a forest on fire. Animals feel the heat, are afraid of being burned because they know that it would be painful, so they run. What could trees and other plants do? Nothing but stand there and die in agony. So how would the ability to feel pain help them to survive?

[@misterauctor7353]

@@barbaraibiel The smell of cut grass?