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Donald M. Broom is Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare at Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine and St Catharine's College. His research concerns the scientific assessment of animal welfare, cognitive abilities of animals, ethics of animal usage and sustainable farming. Website

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Miguel Segundo-Ortin and Paco Calvo, Plant sentience? Between romanticism and denial: Science

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There are many parallels between cellular function in animals and plants. Plants can have complex interactions with their environments. But they lack a central nervous system, which is a prerequisite for sentience (the capacity to feel). In my view the suggestion that plants are sentient is not only empirically incorrect but potentially harmful to the efforts to protect the welfare of sentient beings.

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10.51291/2377-7478.1818