(might explain that muted screaming noise when mowing the yard)
Posted on 10/27/2014 4:24:30 AM PDT by maddog55
Eating a leaf off a plant may not kill it, but that doesn't mean the plant likes it. The newest study to examine the intelligence (or at least behavior) of plants finds that plants can tell when they're being eaten -- and send out defenses to stop it from happening.
We’ve been hearing for decades about the complex intelligence of plants; last year’s excellent New Yorker piece is a good place to start, if you want to learn more about the subject. But a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri, managed to figure out one new important element: plants can tell when they’re being eaten, and they don’t like it.
(Excerpt) Read more at modernfarmer.com ...
OMG, eating plants is MURDER!
Broccoli rights!
Aren’t these the same people who claim that a persistent vegetative state is best cured by starvation, because the person cannot feel anything?
(might explain that muted screaming noise when mowing the yard)
Next they will be claiming plants have ‘faces’.
LOL, remind me of that episode from Lost in Space, where a giant carrot went after the Robinson family.
Plants have ‘universal rights’ too! I present to you ‘Fruitarians’
http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Fruitarian
Was the robot saying “Warning Will Robinson?”
How does my grass feel about my Honda mower?
Vegan is murder!
-——nobody’s quite sure by what mechanism the plant can actually feel or hear these vibrations, -——
I am. The process is a survival mechanism that is purely Darwinian in origin.
“Your yard screams in agony” ping
Been said for years that the eye-watering odor of an onion being sliced is passive revenge.
The late John Lennon was said to subsist on nothing but megavitamins after he heard a cornstalk sob as it was stripped of one of its ears.
Anymore, the jokes just write themselves.......
Each other, hopefully.
Now we can tell the vegan crowd that lettuce is murder.
Just in time for Halloween - can’t carve pumpkins, the cruelty.....
Thank you, everyone, for the funny comments. Made my morning.
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