[Black Agnes]

Kittens are much further up the food chain than lobster. Do plants feel pain when you boil them?

[RobRoy]

>>Do plants feel pain when you boil them?<<

Some studies suggest they do, unless you already killed them before you put them in the pot, which studies also suggest creates "bad feelings" in the plant.

This has been discussed on other threads and it seems to have as much merit as a lot of the other positions people hold about the suffering of animals.

[Momaw Nadon]

Kittens are much further up the food chain than lobster. Do plants feel pain when you boil them?

I do not know the answer to that question, as I am neither a kitten nor a lobster nor a plant.

What does an animal's place on the food chain have to do with the amount of its suffering?

Alligators and sharks are very high up on the food chain, yet they are killed and eaten by people.