> --And every act that animals carry out that you can point to to show that
> they "suffer" can be applied to many nonanimal
> species too. For instance, plants can move away for cold and dark;
> paramecium try to escape a unicellular organism trying to eat it. There
> is no compelling evidence that supports the claim "we know animals suffer
> and plants do not."
This is incredibly silly. There are not only similarities of response, but also similarities of apparent cause; Ravi's already alluded to the neurological evidence.
-- Luke