I read your Mimosa/fern article before. It's just chemical adaption. Plants may have mildly complex hormonal systems to respond to lots of different stimuli. Bu

I read your Mimosa/fern article before. It's just chemical adaption. Plants may have mildly complex hormonal systems to respond to lots of different stimuli. But you still haven't addressed the cold pedant nature of your arguments. It's obvious that animals feel pain. You are really reaching for anything resembling even a physical response by plants, let alone pain. We should strive to treat those similar to us in conscious experience, the way we would like to be treated. Plants have no consciousness that we can relate to, if a consciousness at all. There is no brain. There is no response to physical stimuli, no eyes, no ears. Nothing that can sense the passage of time as quickly as animals. You are truly reaching, and I understand you may have autism which leads you to take this cold anachronistic view of the science of pain. But you really are lost here. Forget the plant thing. Treat animals well.