Do trees have a nervous system?

Neurons are specialized cells unique to animals. They send signals rapidly throughout the body. In this way, animal tissues are all connected. The whole animal is wired. Much of this network is devoted to movement. Animals are therefore able to respond quickly to a stimulus. read more

A tree doesn't have a nervous system BUT it does sense its environment and responds to changing conditions by altering its growth pattern and other actions. In other words, there is a form of distributed information processing that occurs in plants by messaging between cells across the entire network of cells. read more

They do have nervous systems that do things like communicate how much light each leaf gets to other parts of the plant. They never got very big, let alone brain-sized, probably because a nervous system takes a lot of power, and plants don't get very much. read more

Grass fed humanely treated animals are the best. Do your own research and just don't be ignorant because ignorance kills. I don't believe that plants feel pain because they do not have a nervous system and they don't have the neurons to carry pain signals. read more