It’s Insane
It’s insane
Does a plant feel pain?
How would we know?
Does a plant run away?
Does it scream?
Does it laugh and play?
Is it human?
Is it sentient?
Does it think?
Do it’s emotions foment?
From its roots to its shoots
Does a plant have feelings?
When its skin ends up
Among the peelings?
Do its senses flip-flop
When its body’s for the chop?
Does it know what’s coming
When it hears the chainsaw humming?
Does a plant possess intelligence?
Does it have common sense?
Or is a plant as dead as wood?
Merely growing as it should?
It’s insane
Does a plant feel pain?
But how would we know
If it doesn’t show?
Opher – 3.2.2019
Because they cannot move or speak we assume they cannot feel.
Because they have no brain we assume they can’t feel pain.
But the latest research indicates they feel a lot more than we think.
I’ll never look at a salad in the same way again.