Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pain" in English language version.
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Pain management: an interdisciplinary approach.
Given that plants do not have pain receptors, nerves, or a brain, they do not feel pain as we members of the animal kingdom understand it. Uprooting a carrot or trimming a hedge is not a form of botanical torture, and you can bite into that apple without worry.
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damageAlt URL[permanent dead link] Derived from Bonica JJ (June 1979). "The need of a taxonomy". Pain. 6 (3): 247–248. doi:10.1016/0304-3959(79)90046-0. PMID 460931.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2026 (link)Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damageAlt URL[permanent dead link] Derived from Bonica JJ (June 1979). "The need of a taxonomy". Pain. 6 (3): 247–248. doi:10.1016/0304-3959(79)90046-0. PMID 460931.
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damageAlt URL[permanent dead link] Derived from Bonica JJ (June 1979). "The need of a taxonomy". Pain. 6 (3): 247–248. doi:10.1016/0304-3959(79)90046-0. PMID 460931.
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damageAlt URL[permanent dead link] Derived from Bonica JJ (June 1979). "The need of a taxonomy". Pain. 6 (3): 247–248. doi:10.1016/0304-3959(79)90046-0. PMID 460931.
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Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damageAlt URL[permanent dead link] Derived from Bonica JJ (June 1979). "The need of a taxonomy". Pain. 6 (3): 247–248. doi:10.1016/0304-3959(79)90046-0. PMID 460931.
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Given that plants do not have pain receptors, nerves, or a brain, they do not feel pain as we members of the animal kingdom understand it. Uprooting a carrot or trimming a hedge is not a form of botanical torture, and you can bite into that apple without worry.