Here's a question...

Plants do not feel pain because they do not have a central nervous system. I used to worry about that myself and it almost made me stop eating! LOL Then I started thinking, what if plants had voices and screamed every time they were cut? We couldn't bear the noise when cutting the grass! I wish my mind would just shut up sometimes. *GRIN*

Yes they can, but it's different from the pain of animals because plants don't have anyway to communicate to us, nor do they have brain/nervous system to express it. However they are very aware of their environment so they probably know when they're being harvest or damaged.

Of course plants feel pain! They feel the pain of loss when all their little friends are dug up or chopped down or eaten alive by bugs. The feel the pain of thirst and hunger when they're not looked after properly. And they feel the pain of waste and rejection when you don't appreciate the beauty and aroma of their flowers and foliage, or the flavor of their fruit and other juicy bits. Plants live to give. That's their nature. I know, because I often do a Vulcan mind-meld with my favorite little plants.

No, I don't think so, why? Well pain in humans occurs in the brain, or at least the brain is necessary for it. Phantom limb pain I take to be sufficient evidence for that. Plants lacking any centrally organised reactive system seem to lack the necessary structures for pain. That is not to say that plants necessarily lack all sentience, they do go into 'shock' in certain conditions. all the best urban

No, I don't believe so, plants do not have nerves or a brain. Therefore they feel no pain. Although plants do respond to the sun, so they do have a way to move, though it is primitive and limited.

Yes, without doubt plants can feel pain, and will take measures to avoid it. I'm a beekeeper in Bear Country, which means that I have to protect my beehives from destruction by marauding Black Bears. I do this by enclosing the beeyard with 3 strands of electrically charged wire. The 3 wires start about 6 inches from the ground and are 6 inches apart with the top wire being about knee height. One of the problems is to keep grass and weeds from growing up under the electric wire and shorting it out. However there is an interesting observation I never tire of watching. Wild grape vines can recognise a tree or fence post from up to 10 feet away and will send out vines directly to the upright object and begin to grow up and around it. However they will never attempt to climb on the electric fence, because they recognise the electrically charged wire would burn their tendrils. They will climb on a Page-Wire fence until their weigh breaks it down, but will never, ever, touch that electric wire! The reason being, the charged wire is surrounded by an electric field which the sensitive plant tendrils can feel, and they are intelligent enough to stay away!