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I speak for the trees, for the trees can't speak for themselves

In Reply to: senses, sonsors - feeling and suffering posted by John Flowers on March 13, 1997 at 19:15:17:

Perhaps that's why we have sympathy for the animals people eat: we
can appreciate and comprehend their senses because they more closely
resemble our own. The plants belong to an entirely different kingdom.
Their suffering (or lack thereof) is incomprehensible to us, therefore, it
is deemed irrelevant or accepted without analysis. Is this just an
example of anthropomorphism? Are their screams merely silent?? If a
tree falls in the woods, nevermind whether any mammal is there to experience
it--does the tree experience anything that could be related to suffering or
unpleasant sensations (Its roots dangling horizontally in the air crying out for
nourishment and the opaque serenity of underground)?

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