Do you believe plants can feel pain?
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if u go by the 1st def: physical suffering caused by illness or injury, kinda. U can see symptoms of distress. Its a stretch tho
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It depends how you define pain -- certain plants, attacked, let out pheromonal "screams"....
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....but it is situational as well. No animal wants any part of itself eaten, but some plants depend on parts being eaten.
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Fruits, for example, are tasty precisely to attract animals to gobble them up and poop the seeds out later (auto-fertilizing!!)
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I suspect it is so with some leaves and grasses, plants long-existing symbiotically with their animal population.
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Depends on what you consider "feel" emotionally, no. Literally, yes, it's been proven in science because they need to rid pests
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You need a nervous system to feel anything. Plants do not have one. L.Ron Idiot was WRONG!
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There's no real evidence of any pain response system. They move towards light by photoreceptors. that's as close as it gets.