This is true. Whenever I eat broccoli, it reprograms itself to taste bad.
Reminds me of Mooochelle’s White House Garden....
How long before we see “PEToP” (people for the ethical treatment of plants)?
It’s a good thing my lawn mower is loud. I might not be able to bear the screams :)
Have you ever bitten into an apple only to find that you just destroyed the home of a worm and all of her little “loved ones”? It’s hard to sleep at night after that happens.
Oh...now I know the source of that blood curdling scream when I bit into a carrot stick the other night.
When is the movie, “revenge of the plants” going to be released?
A new equivalent to PETA...PETP...”PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PLANTS”?
A ne reality show, perhaps?
I have some hedges in front of my house that have leaves with one sharp point on the tip. When I trim the hedges, the first leaves that grow back have up to five points on them. If I don’t trim for a while, the leaves revert to one point.
Asparagus has figured out a form of revenge, along with beets, beans, cabbage, garlic, and others.
And that is why it is imperative to cook them first.
” Using a second set of plants, they played back only silence.”
“Second set of plants?” Must’ve been the audience for John Cage’s “4’33”
There is a lot more involved than just this. Both plants and animals have millions of years of natural selection in which they compete and cooperate with each other. For example, a lot of animals have evolved so that they can use plant poisons against insects without harm.
Onions, garlic, hot peppers, tobacco, coffee, the list is enormous. All have evolved defenses that we now like, regard as desirable, and cultivate and improve on.
At the same time, many plants produce fruit that is *intended* to be eaten, but not the seeds within, which can pass through an animals digestion unharmed to be deposited elsewhere. Yet it is only supposed to be eaten when ripe, so changes colors to let animals know.
Examples of all the back and forth could go on for a long time, so the idea that plants can detect when they are being damaged and react to it is pretty basic.
Great use of grant monies.
Duh.
But the idea that a fetus can feel pain is an anathema to the liberals.........................
well.. they are alive when eaten... laying there on the plate, gravely wounded, crying out for their brethren with no hope of survival.
those vegans are just barbarians!
Vegetables Are Murder.