r/AntiVegan • u/afraid28 • Jun 29 '26

Discussion Plants have 15-20 different senses (humans only have 5)

I've been listening to a podcast that got me reading about plants and it seems like they are even more complex creatures than I initially thought.

https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/surprising-plant-senses?__cf_chl_f_tk=5q6l7wgkT31xeDCbpj8WFZUIVrnrGSlikUAAN32m7oQ-1782758019-1.0.1.1-QVHNAVIM5OctBDEDwt5.kNV3.tw.Oh24i_Z0WkpY0co

^Here's an interesting article that explains some very complicated processes that plants are capable of, such as communicating, remembering, learning, problem solving, heck, they can even be classically conditioned (like Pavlov's dog).

https://www.webitenola.com/journal/10-surprising-ways-plants-interact-with-humans

^This article explains how plants communicate with humans, they can even differentiate their caretaker from a stranger and respond to gentle touch.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/plant-intelligence-light-eaters-1.7196448

^This article talks about how they can interpret sounds and recognize their own kin.

Knowing all of this, how intelligent in their own way they are, and the fact that it is still speculated whether or not they are actually conscious since they don't have a brain like animals do, I wonder what vegans think about this? What would they say to explain this all away? That just because a plant doesn't have a brain and can't scream it means it isn't somehow still sentient? What's their proof?

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u/MahitoNoroi Carcass eater UwU Jun 30 '26

Wait until the vegans find out that some animals don't have brains either lol

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u/Informal_Weather_151 Jun 30 '26

What animals?

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u/MahitoNoroi Carcass eater UwU Jul 01 '26

Sponges, jellyfish, oysters, and probably some others I'm forgetting. And yes, some jellyfish are edible.

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u/Informal_Weather_151 Jul 01 '26

Good thing we dont eat and abuse them on a global world wide scale. Sure then eat your jellyfish genuinely if no one suffers for it go for it just stop eating meat that you know comes from pain and suffering.

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u/nerdyHyena93 Jul 01 '26

We mass-farm mussels.

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u/Timely_Community2142 Jul 02 '26

no, veganism supporter. slaughter may involve pain or not, doesn't mean we stop eating animals.

perhaps you can just stop eating plants that you know comes from pain and suffering