Can potatoes feel pain?

No, plants cannot feel pain. There is no possible way for that to happen without a central nervous system.
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Do potatoes scream when you cut them?

Plants feel pain too! Researchers find an ultrasonic 'scream' is emitted when stems are cut or if species are not watered enough. A team of scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered that some plants emit a high frequency distress sound when they undergo environmental stress.
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Can vegetables feel pain?

Given that plants do not have pain receptors, nerves, or a brain, they do not feel pain as we members of the animal kingdom understand it. Uprooting a carrot or trimming a hedge is not a form of botanical torture, and you can bite into that apple without worry.
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Do insects feel pain when eaten alive?

Answer by Matan Shelomi, entomologist, on Quora: Insects can sense damage being done to them and can avoid it, but do not suffer emotionally and, it seems, have a limited ability to sense past damage (broken limbs) or internal damage (being eaten alive by a parasitoid).
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Is it cruel to eat plants?

Plants aren't inanimate objects — just like animals, they are living, breathing things too. But since plants don't seem to make a sound when they are plucked, cooked, popped into the mouth and chewed, the foam-in-the-mouth “animal rights” defenders think (so conveniently) that there is no cruelty in eating plants.
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What animals cant feel pain?

Summary: Fish do not feel pain the way humans do, according to a team of neurobiologists, behavioral ecologists and fishery scientists. The researchers conclude that fish do not have the neuro-physiological capacity for a conscious awareness of pain. Fish do not feel pain the way humans do.
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Do plants feel love?

It's something that plant lovers have long suspected, but now Australian scientists have found evidence that plants really can feel when we're touching them.
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Do ants feel pain when you squish them?

They don't feel 'pain,' but may feel irritation and probably can sense if they are damaged. Even so, they certainly cannot suffer because they don't have emotions.
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Can fishes feel pain?

Neurobiologists have long recognized that fish have nervous systems that comprehend and respond to pain. Fish, like “higher vertebrates,” have neurotransmitters such as endorphins that relieve suffering—the only reason for their nervous systems to produce these painkillers is to alleviate pain.
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Do lobsters feel pain?

U.K. researchers say crabs, lobsters and octopuses have feelings — including pain. The nervous systems of these invertebrates are at the center of a bill working its way through Britain's Parliament.
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Do eggs feel pain?

Studies on pain perception

Pain can only be felt when this combination exists. There are many studies on the development of an embryo in a chicken egg. According to a study of the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag, embryos can feel pain from the 15th day of incubation onwards.
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Do trees have a gender?

Tree flowers can have male parts, female parts, both male and female parts together, or none at all. Some of these parts may or may not be functional. You cannot tell flower function (or gender) just by looking. Trees do not show their gender until they are sexually mature and start to flower.
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Do trees cry?

When drought hits, trees can suffer—a process that makes sounds. Now, scientists may have found the key to understanding these cries for help. In the lab, a team of French scientists has captured the ultrasonic noise made by bubbles forming inside water-stressed trees.
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Do plants talk to humans?

A team of Singaporean scientists discovered that communication between plants and humans is possible by tracing electric signals diffused by plants.
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Do plants cry?

Does it look like your leaves are dripping water or “crying”? This process, called guttation, is completely normal — your plant isn't upset! We see many plant hobbyists ask why their plant is dripping water and if it's okay, or a signal that something isn't right.
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Does grass scream when you cut it?

You guessed it – the near-holocaustic trimming of its blades prompts your grass to explode with a hundred-fold emission of GLVs. That smell of fresh-cut grass is really a shriek of despair as your lawn sends out distress signals.
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Do ants feel pain?

Scientists have known insects experience something like pain, but new research provides compelling evidence suggesting that insects also experience chronic pain that lasts long after an initial injury has healed.
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Can chicken feel pain?

Chickens have pain receptors that give them the ability to feel pain and distress. Put yourself in the shoes (or the feathers) of a battery hen—or 452 million of them, which is how many are used for their eggs each year. 7. Hens defend their young from predators.
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Do dogs feel pain?

Dogs feel pain for many of the same reasons as humans: infections, dental problems, arthritis, bone disease and cancer. They also feel discomfort following surgical procedures. Unfortunately, unlike humans, they are unable to speak to us about when and where they hurt.
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Do worms feel pain?

But a team of Swedish researchers has uncovered evidence that worms do indeed feel pain, and that worms have developed a chemical system similar to that of human beings to protect themselves from it.
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Can a fly feel pain?

The flies, they found, receive pain messages via sensory neurons in their ventral nerve cord, the insect equivalent of a spinal cord. Along this nerve cord are inhibitory neurons that act as gatekeepers, allowing pain signals through or blocking them based on context.
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Do Crabs feel pain?

A longstanding related question: Do they feel pain? Yes, researchers now say. Not only do crabs suffer pain, a new study found, but they retain a memory of it (assuming they aren't already dead on your dinner plate). The scientists say its time for new laws to consider the suffering of all crustaceans.
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Do plants like music?

Plants thrive when they listen to music that sits between 115Hz and 250Hz, as the vibrations emitted by such music emulate similar sounds in nature. Plants don't like being exposed to music more than one to three hours per day. Jazz and classical music seems to be the music of choice for ultimate plant stimulation.
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Can plants get lonely?

Plants will definitely experience something like being “lonely” in pots because they miss out on underground connections. The majority of plants form symbioses with fungi underground, via their roots.
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Do plants like being talked to?

“But some research shows that speaking nicely to plants will support their growth, whereas yelling at them won't. Rather than the meaning of words, however, this may have more to do with vibrations and volume. Plants react favourably to low levels of vibrations, around 115-250hz being ideal.”
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