[Buddha-l] buddha-l Digest, Vol 103, Issue 3

[Christopher Fynn]

On 09/09/2013, David Living <aryacitta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Re: Sentience of Plants

> Another complication is that some plants actually want to be eaten as a way
> of
> propagating the species - blackcurrents, grapes, apples, pairs - the list
> goes on.

Of course when fruit, nuts, and some vegetables are harvested it
doesn't kill the tree,or plant. By the time grain is harvested the
plant itself is usually dessicated - and, in that state, it hard to
beleive there is any response to being cut. If you hold plants to be
sentient, then root and leafy vegetables might be a problem.