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

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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.

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

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

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?

very interesting

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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 ^

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

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

Plant have feelings was demonstrated by Jagadish Chandra Bose in London

insightful, thanks

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

I don't want to look at the recent comments

Vegan teacher: "plants don't feel pain"

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 :).

"BuT PlAnTs FeeL PaIn ToO!!!!"

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

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

roma from gatti uomo was here

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.

Vegetarian will love this argument

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Great now I have to be vegan

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

I suddenly feel bad for plants that drown

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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....

My plants hate me

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

2:58 (do plants feel pain)

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

do ants feel pain? same question.. 😅😅

Someone send this to Vegan Teacher

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).

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.

you are wrong at 3:00 ; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BH7cp1nqHL.html 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.

How much bacteria we eat daily 😂😀

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

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.

Plants have feelings too.

Everything is alive and feel pain

Plants feel pain. Of course.

ok now we can all go vegan

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 ???

be breif

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.

9 vegans watched this video.

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

We must stop vegans at all costs

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

Go Vegan without guilt.