Vegetarians and vegans, what would you do if it was proven that plants feel pain?

I would only eat fruit or animals who were already dead.

eat them more

No actually it has been proven via science.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/plant...

Vegans are inherently very intelligent, so we would come up with another way to get the required nutrients, without murdering sentient beings.

I know you asked us to "humour" you but the problem is that what you suggest is simply impossible - we've known for centuries that plants don't "feel" anything. It's like suggesting that the ground feels pain when we walk on it - we KNOW it doesn't because it can't. What would you do if you discovered you didn't really exist? It's impossible to answer - there would be nothing you could "do"!

And no, trees don't "talk to each other"!

I would still be vegan.

Turns out, if you care about plants then being vegan consumes a net lower amount of plants all together than eating meat. Cows, pigs and chickens, who number in the tens of billions, actually eat waaay more plants than seven billion humans do. Even if they were all vegetarians.

The idea isn't to end world suffering, that would be impossible.

Just to be responsible for causing a little less of it.

NO brain, NO pain

I wouldn't care

I would still eat them, we have to eat something. I would rather eat a plant that has lived outside and has had a natural, pain free life than an animal that has been abused, deprived of its natural instincts and brutally slaughtered. A vegan diet would still be kinder because we use less plants than an omnivores diet.

I wouldn't give a fck