No, plants don't have feelings. They are biologically incapable lacking a nervous system, hormonal system and a brain. Eating meat isn't a sin or a crime if done responsibly by eating only small amounts from reliable, sustainable and ethical sources. Some species, such as ourselves, have evolved eating meat as part of an omnivorous diet and it is unhealthy to eat to much or none at all. But seriously, plants have feelings too? Spare me your non-science nonsense.

With all due respect, I speak as a Plant Scientist with a Masters and working on a PhD in plant interactions with each other and their environment. They do not have feelings. They cannot feel love or anger or sadness. They respond to their environment with something less than instinct, just like when your pupil dilates in your eye in response to light it isn't dilating due to fear etc., it's a biological response. Yes, chemicals released into the soil by one plant can sometimes be detected by another, this is termed communication because information from one plant is passed to another. They are not talking or sharing or bffs.

Hazel, plants interact with their environment and with each other and always act with purpose - they respond to changes in their environment that might affect their survival, they're not defenseless. "Feelings" is definitely a huge stretch, but having a different anatomy from animals doesn't mean they don't feel anything, they just do it differently from us. We're still debating whether fish and insects are capable of feeling pain and suffering, so everything is pretty relative.

Plants have feelings, too. Humans are just not in touch enough with nature to sense it.

it really depends on your own personal beliefs in that case, as well as if it's legal in the area. I personally am not a fan of the idea but if someone else is then I won't argue with them, we are all entitled to our own tastes and beliefs.

They still get killed in the end don't they? Would you think eating dogs is okay if they are free range?

Claire Shamgochian It depends on the country. In Finland our cattle for example get a really easy painless death. I know because my dad is in the business and I've seen countless cows and pigs die. Trust me, they don't know what's coming for them and they don't feel a thing: the best way to go.

I don't really think it could be considered to be treated "nicely" if end the end the animals have a very painful death (I have looked into it and it is not as painless as you would hope).

This is in the wrong place. My reply is all over here though I only replied to one comment! So annoying!

This is in the wrong place.

Sorry, this is in the wrong place.

The vast majority of the 10 billion animals slaughtered annually for meat and raised for dairy ARE in fact mistreated (not to mention the immense environmental impact). Further, even if an animal is not "cuddly" or "cute," this still doesn't make it ok to hurt them. If you have a smidgeon of empathy for the pain and suffering of others, it is very easy to stop participating. I know, I was raised in meat-loving Germany and have been vegan for 20 years.

Have you done any research before making this claim? Watched any videos? Read any book? Done anything than guess and hope you are right? The truth is (and I have done a lot of research) most farm animals are abused plain and simple. I would rather die than live for even a month in the conditions of a factory farm animal.

Claire Shamgochian - I have been researching/seeing/reading/watching farm animals/videos for nigh onto 60 years; of course factory-farm animals don't get the same treatment as non-factory animals! Wild animals don't have it any better than most factory-farm animals where I live; no human wants to live like that.

Peta would rather see all those dogs put down than adopted out. They don't want to save animals, they want to "liberate" them from all human involvement, including keeping pets. People drop pets off to them, thinking they'll be rehomed, but Peta puts them down instead.

PETA is one f****d up mess. F**k PETA

Peta has on their about us page tat they wish the keeping of pets never existed, that the concept of pets is just selfishness and all pets are suffering. Peta's co-founder believes pets are in an abysmal situation and pets must be stopped. They kill over 90% of the cats and dogs they take in, they've stolen people's pets from their yards and porches and killed them, they take in strays and immediately kill them on the back of a van instead of waiting the legal time period required for strays. In some places their facilities are barred from being called an animal shelter as in some cases they only adopted out 3% of their animals and killed the other 97%.

C.Marrero - correct that PETA does not want people to own pets, and sadly they hide the fact that they do not actually care about the animals, they just care about getting people to stop owning animals for pets/food/leather/fur/etc.

I care..

Ellso so are you saying that peta doesn't even want people to own pets

C. Marreto, sounds like a logo... And YES, they do!

not these dogs, these dogs bred for "consumption" not for companion. yes eating dogs is wrong, but there is nothing wrong with eating dogs meat. just like any other meat, including plants "meat"!....

Terry Jeppsen, there's no real boundary on food and friend. Some cultures have been eating it for centuries, and you have to respect that.

Yes, i know that, but dogs are supposed to be mans best friend, not mans favorite appetizer.

:) I do what I can