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Originally Posted by CSflim
Hence eating wheat and other plants is acceptable. Eating animals is not.
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Well sure, we are mammals and high up on the food chain. It's easy for us to ignore any pain that the plant might feel after all they are not like us.
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If pain is defined as a signal of present or impending tissue damage effected by a harmful stimulus then the ability to experience pain or irritation is observable in most multi-cellular organisms. Even plants have the ability to retract from a noxious stimulus. Whether this sensation of pain is equivalent to the human experience is debatable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain
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