2026-11-04 07:42 UTC
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@merde@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-04 07:54
to assume plants are sentient is a charognard propaganda outdated? pfff… Receptors doesn’t mean “pain rezeptors”. Don’t seed confusion.
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@rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2026-11-04 10:43
Even if we took that as true, directly eating plants still kills fewer plants than feeding them to animals and then eating those animals.
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@ziltoid101@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 15:03
ALL organisms can sense and respond to their environments or else they will be easily killed. Bacterial signalling molecules and receptors exist too. This is very different to the concept of pain or suffering.
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@mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2026-11-04 18:40
Even if that’s true that plants are conscious and can experience subjective pain (doubt), then it just means we live on a world where it’s really hard to avoid doing harm and that would suck for us as sapient creatures with the knowledge that inflicting pain is wrong, but the end goal would still be to reduce reduce harm to feeling beings as much as practicable.