do tomatoes feel pain?

[mopaul]

(or is it tomato?)

just curious, cause i picked one up from the market and when i sliced it up to go with my scrambled eggs, i could've sworn i heard faint screaming.

i think about science stuff a lot

[Direckshun]

1. Dude...

...were you sent here to completely blow my mind?

[phatkatt]

2. I hope not, 'cause if so, I'll be inflicting a lot of pain this summer.

I loooves my homegrown 'maters!

[Snoggera]

3. yes

Listen up brothers and sisters come hear my desperate tale
I speak of our friends of nature trapped in the dirt like a jail
Vegetables live in oppression, served on our tables each night
This killing of veggies is madness, I say we take up the fight
Salads are only for murderers, coleslaw's a fascist regime
Don't think that they don't have feelings, just cause a radish can't scream

Chorus:
I've heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)
Carrot juice constitutes murder (and that's a real crime)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables go)
It's time to stop all this gardening (it's dirty as hell)
Let's call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade is a spade)

I saw a man eating celery, so I beat him black and blue
If he ever touches a sprout again, I'll bite him clean in two
I'm a political prisoner, trapped in a windowless cage
Cause I stopped the slaughter of turnips by killing five men in a rage
I told the judge when he sentenced me, "This is my finest hour,
I'd kill those farmers again just to save one more cauliflower"

Chorus

How low as people do we dare to stoop,
Making young broccolis bleed in the soup?
Untie your beans, uncage your tomatoes
Let potted plants free, don't mash that potato!
Oh spare the spud! Eat a cow instead!

I've heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (fates in the stir-fry are sealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (you fat gourmet slob)
How do you think that feels? (leave them out in the field)
Carrot juice constitutes murder (V8's genocide)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (yes, your composts are graves)
It's time to stop all this gardening (take up macrame)
Let's call a spade a spade
(is a spade, is a spade, is a spade, is a spade......)

Power to the peas! Give peas a chance!
all we are saying, is give peas a chance

[frank frankly]

4. reminds me of a Tool song about the slaughter of the corn

life feeds on life...

FYI, from one scientist to another.

:hi:

[phatkatt]

7. Wasn't that carrots?

"THIS ... IS ... NECESSARY"

[redqueen]

11. lol, my thoughts exactly

And the angel of the lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber.
And took me on high, and higher still until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself.
And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own midwest.
And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil.
One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear.
And terror possesed me then.
And I begged,
"Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?"
And the angel said unto me,
"These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!
You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust."
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared,
"Hear me now, I have seen the light!
They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul!
Damn you!
Let the rabbits wear glasses!
Save our brothers!"
Can I get an amen?
Can I get a hallelujah?
Thank you Jesus.
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on........

This is necessary.

[Angelus]

5. You're kidding....right?

A tomato is a living thing, but it doesn't have any nerves, nervous system, or a brain to feel pain.

I think you were kidding, though. :shrug:

[redqueen]

6. Yes

People have argued that the 'pain' is nothing more than a reaction, but when later studies showed that aspirin worked to suppress this reaction, that seemed like good enough evidence to me!

[wtmusic]

8. No one's gonna make me feel guilty for making the world's best sauce

Hear that? NO ONE.

[matcom]

9. only if you peel them alive

[workforpower]

10. Only when their rotten and.....

they hit Bush in the face and he lies about it. Otherwise no one cares.

That was political. Enjoy your breakfast and enjoy your life.

[damnraddem]

12. Unfortunately not. That's why it's so hard to fight back against ...

Killer Tomatoes!

Just don't ask for ketchup!

[mopaul]

13. and what about cabbages?

i was once a vegeterrorist. my thing was cabbage. me and my crazy buddy would go out into the farmer's cabbage patch and put on a record of 'the teddy bear's picnic' and the little cabbages would come out of the ground dancing merrily in a circle and we'd smash em' over their heads with a horrific dull thud and stuff em' all into sacks for market.

when i think back on those days, i just feel ashamed

[chaska]

14. they hurt so good

i apologize for the above. i know it stinks.

[NoPasaran]

15. Salad is murder!