Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inducible_Plant_Defe... ) you can read about Induced Defenses of plants, their responses to injury. Yes, plants feel pain. They can even distinguish between a lawnmower and a bug munching on them. From here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_signal#Other_a... ) you can read of one example where plants actually cry out in pain, signaling others about danger, which unharmed plants will respond to and relay the warning. I've read of other examples.

AFAIK, algae doesn't feel pain. Go tell a PETA person to eat pond scum. It's for their own good.

It goes completely against the foundations of Western Civilization and of course the Judeo-Christian values which underpin our civilization. It is a pagan, animist conception of the world which should repulse atheists as much as Christians, but unsurprisingly they often fall for it.

Classical liberals, if they still exist, should must be horrified by this perverse aspect of modern liberalism. Which is why they are conservatives now whether they realize it or not.

Plus – they're just nuts.

Interesting that he's a PETA poster boy when he beat his dog to death with a baseball bat.

Rattlesnakes don't wrap themselves around prey, that's what constrictors do. It is impossible he is telling the truth that his dog was running around with a rattler wrapped around it and it's fangs in the back of it's head. Rattlers strike and release; you've seen it on TV.

Obviously, it would be completely out of character for Clooney to beat his dog to death in a fit of childish pique. He has no history of violent behavior.