>>Vegetables and plants have feelings too<<
You know, you have a point. ;-)
Plants have feelings and do not like being eaten and are stressed out at the thought of their own demise----so says Cleve Baxter, the "father" of the polygraph.
Cleve wired up plants and discovered they react to emotions and music. . .so, it's true. . .plants do have feelings. Maybe we should all become "airians" that fictitious group that believes we can survive on air alone (from an old episode of Barney Miller)
From
http://www.hrvg.org/newsletter/2002-09/conference.html
>>Perhaps the most vivacious presentation is delivered by the affable, 79-year-old legend, Cleve Baxter, who began experimenting on plants in the 1960's, testing for their electromagnetic responses to various external stimuli. You know, where the plant is hooked up to a polygraph and you think mean thoughts and the graph goes haywire? I like the one where you chop a head of cabbage in two and the plant just freaks. Then you leave the room and a series of people enter one by one as the plant grows bored until you, the cabbage chopper, renter the room whereby the plant loses it again, "Cabbage chopper, cabbage chopper!!!", thus demonstrating a form of plant recall.
In a similar observation, Cleve tells us of one plant's registered distress at the incidental opening of a yogurt cup. Evidently, it was determined, the impending doom of the bacteria in the yogurt was enough to upset the plant, illustrating once again the truly delicate interconnectedness of all living things.
The talk is a hit and Cleve's books at once sell out. I grab him during the after-talk book signing. "Mr. Baxter," I interrupt, "your plants get excited when someone close by wants to, say, set them on fire. But, how do they respond to love?"
"Not too well, I'm afraid," Cleve laments, "for a scientist, that is. Love tends to calm them down, and so their wave patterns become very smooth. If we're looking for a reaction, we really hope to see a spike on the graph."<<