What Would You Do If We Discovered That Plants Can Feel Pain?

As it turns out, even if a person’s main purpose in life were to minimise the number of plants destroyed, they should still become vegetarian.

That is because plants are used to feed farmed animals, and producing meat is extremely inefficient. Only a small portion of the food animals consume is converted into meat for people to eat. As a result, when we eat meat, we not only cause the death and suffering of the animal, but also destroy far more plants than if we ate vegetarian food.

Continue with these questions:

• If we did not raise animals for food, would they never have a chance to be born and experience life?
• If everyone became vegetarian, what would happen to all the farm animals?
• How do you know whether other animals feel pain?
• Where does consciousness begin in the animal kingdom?