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Plants Can Tell When They’re Being Eaten
Mordrn Farmer ^ | October 20, 2014 | Dan Nosowitz

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 ...


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What's PETA going to eat now?
1 posted on 10/27/2014 4:24:30 AM PDT by maddog55
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OMG, eating plants is MURDER!


2 posted on 10/27/2014 4:25:36 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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To: maddog55

Broccoli rights!


3 posted on 10/27/2014 4:28:22 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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Aren’t these the same people who claim that a persistent vegetative state is best cured by starvation, because the person cannot feel anything?


4 posted on 10/27/2014 4:30:54 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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What's PETA going to eat now?
             


(might explain that muted screaming noise when mowing the yard)

5 posted on 10/27/2014 4:31:09 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: maddog55

Next they will be claiming plants have ‘faces’.


6 posted on 10/27/2014 4:33:01 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Mich Patriot

LOL, remind me of that episode from Lost in Space, where a giant carrot went after the Robinson family.


7 posted on 10/27/2014 4:33:47 AM PDT by mware
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To: Gaffer

Plants have ‘universal rights’ too! I present to you ‘Fruitarians’

http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Fruitarian


8 posted on 10/27/2014 4:34:34 AM PDT by bigtoona
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To: mware

Was the robot saying “Warning Will Robinson?”


9 posted on 10/27/2014 4:41:40 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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To: maddog55

How does my grass feel about my Honda mower?


10 posted on 10/27/2014 4:43:53 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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11 posted on 10/27/2014 4:46:48 AM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: maddog55

Vegan is murder!


12 posted on 10/27/2014 4:50:05 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American.. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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13 posted on 10/27/2014 4:50:48 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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-——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.


14 posted on 10/27/2014 4:53:49 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: shibumi

“Your yard screams in agony” ping


15 posted on 10/27/2014 4:54:15 AM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: sitetest

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.......


16 posted on 10/27/2014 4:54:41 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: maddog55

Each other, hopefully.


17 posted on 10/27/2014 4:55:54 AM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: Gaffer
"Diabeetus"


18 posted on 10/27/2014 4:57:05 AM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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19 posted on 10/27/2014 4:57:27 AM PDT by mykroar (Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. - John Adams)
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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.


20 posted on 10/27/2014 4:57:43 AM PDT by PenguinM
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