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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
Also, how do we know for sure that a carrot does not feel? It grows, therefore it is alive. But just because it doesn't have the same kind of brain and nervous system that we are familiar with, doesn't mean it doesn't feel and suffer.
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I think evolution gave us the ability to suffer pain so we could avoid harm.
If you put you're hand in a fire, the pain makes you take it out before too much harm is done.
A carrot cannot take avoiding action, so I doubt if it ever evolved the ability to 'suffer', since it wouldn't give it any evolutionary benefit.
But, I'm no expert.