Posted on 07/08/2014 6:45:05 AM PDT by markomalley
There is bad news for moonbats who don’t eat meat because it is morally wrong to devour the flesh of murdered animals: plants don’t like getting eaten either.
According to a study by Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft at the University of Missouri, plants can identify the sound of caterpillars chewing and react to it defensively.
In the study, caterpillars were placed on Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard.
Using a laser and a tiny piece of reflective material on the leaf of the plant, Cocroft was able to measure the movement of the leaf in response to the chewing caterpillar.
Cocroft and Appel then played back recordings of caterpillar feeding vibrations to one set of plants, but played back only silence to the other set of plants.
When caterpillars later fed on both sets of plants, the researchers found that the plants previously exposed to feeding vibrations produced more mustard oils, a chemical that is unappealing to many caterpillars.
‘What is remarkable is that the plants exposed to different vibrations, including those made by a gentle wind or different insect sounds that share some acoustic features with caterpillar feeding vibrations did not increase their chemical defenses,’ Cocroft said.
Imagine the horror of being eaten alive. Who is to say that the lettuce and alfalfa sprouts in your bowl don’t experience this agony. You salad would beg you for mercy, if only it knew how.
Maybe it would be most morally righteous to not eat anything at all.
But great news for humanity.
Sayonara, Vegans.
Plants have rights:
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/26/160940869/recognizing-the-right-of-plants-to-evolve
Vegans are mean & insensitive !!
And plants scream when they’re pulled!
OMG ... Well, I’ll need to kill all the deer that raid my pear tree, and the rabbits who raid my garden. Guess were just supposed to grow the plants, then let them rot in place so as to not offend some squeamish granola bitch out there.
Don’t disenfranchise plants
I’m not hunting, I’m proactively defending our oxygen producing friends one deer at a time.
It’s all covered in, “The Secret Life of Plants” which came out in 1973. A number of interesting experiments including putting a galvanometer on a plant and boiling brine shrimp across the room. The author got a response in the plant. As I recall most of the experiments were pretty low order that could be picked apart quit easily. Regardless, it was a fun read.
And they metabolize CO2!
All things given the “gift of life” cling to it in any way that they can.
Imagine their horror when they hear my horses approaching.
We should only eat fruit that has fallen from the tree of it’s own accord...NOT! LOL!
Let’s play “spot the vague movie reference.”
Keziah: No, thanks, I’m a fruitarian.
Max: I didn’t realize that.
William: And, ah, what exactly is a fruitarian?
Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feelings, so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that’ve actually fallen off a tree or bush- that are, in fact, dead already.
William: Right, right. Interesting stuff. So, these carrots...?
Keziah: Have been murdered, yes.
William: Murdered? Poor carrots. How beastly!
I applaud your effort to save mankind.
That would be “Silence of the Yams”
At least we don’t eat our meat while it’s still alive.
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