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I read something similar to this years ago in a book titled:"The Secret Life Of Plants." In that book, this was called 'the Baxter effect' after the guy who did the test.
1 posted on 11/23/2001 8:31:27 PM PST by blam
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Now that we have proven that plants are capable of suffering, does this mean that vegetarians are now going to have to starve to death?
2 posted on 11/23/2001 8:33:33 PM PST by SamAdams76
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And they still want us to believe that a fetus doesn't feel any pain?
3 posted on 11/23/2001 8:34:05 PM PST by Mulder
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Bump :)
4 posted on 11/23/2001 8:35:57 PM PST by Cool Guy
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This man has WAY too much time on his hands.

Wanna really hear a scream...wire up a donut!

5 posted on 11/23/2001 8:37:22 PM PST by PoorMuttly
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To claim that plants react to stress is true but to translate that as a scream or recognition of pain is a distortion.
6 posted on 11/23/2001 8:38:00 PM PST by Free the USA
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Scientists Can Make Plants Scream

I guess they've never heard a Led Zep bootleg.

9 posted on 11/23/2001 8:39:36 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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you know, i saw the professor have a lobster talk to the cucumber...
13 posted on 11/23/2001 8:42:40 PM PST by mlocher
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He said: "The orchid cannot run away, so this is her way of complaining about such mean treatment."

Why do I see this professor with a very evil, satisfied smirk on his face when he says this?

14 posted on 11/23/2001 8:47:13 PM PST by kitkat
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It'd be interesting to see how much this "scientist" gets paid to measure plant flatus.
16 posted on 11/23/2001 9:00:40 PM PST by k2blader
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"If trees could scream, would we still cut them down? Well, we might, if they screamed all the time for no reason." --Deep Thoughts by Jim Handy, Saturday Night Live.
18 posted on 11/23/2001 9:04:16 PM PST by ChemistCat
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He would be a German!
20 posted on 11/23/2001 9:10:43 PM PST by JoeSchem
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Now what? The antiwar kooks are gonna be showing pictures of the vegetation damaged by the bombing in Afghanistan?
22 posted on 11/23/2001 9:13:03 PM PST by Wissa
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If there are any bananas in the basket, they will quickly turn brown from it

Man this is soooo infruitmane...

I mean, bananas turning brown from this type of mistreatment...

24 posted on 11/23/2001 9:14:49 PM PST by Syncro
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If these plants are "screaming" because this guy can measure a chemical reaction on a leaf, then I'm committing a Holocaust every time I fart.
25 posted on 11/23/2001 9:15:03 PM PST by Timesink
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I am forming a new organization PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants). I consider myself a vegetable rights activist.
26 posted on 11/23/2001 9:15:08 PM PST by gunnut
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Put a picture of Hillary in front of them and they'll uproot themselves and commit suicide as well.
33 posted on 11/23/2001 9:23:40 PM PST by A CA Guy
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I'd like to get some audio tapes of this to send to PETA. Maybe this would convince those wacko's to starve themselves to death. Or at least attack vegtable stands.

BTW,I've always pictured the blades of grass I cut screaming in pain as I run over them with my lawnmower.

34 posted on 11/23/2001 9:41:29 PM PST by sneakypete
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Bwahahaha..

I can't wait to hear PETA's reaction to this.

37 posted on 11/23/2001 10:30:13 PM PST by Jhoffa_
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It's all the Vegans fault. The mean, self centered indulgers in plant eating should feel real guilty. Moo.
44 posted on 11/24/2001 10:02:06 AM PST by Roebucks
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I can hear this guy saying "Ve haf vays to make you Tok!"
45 posted on 11/24/2001 10:05:13 AM PST by Old Student
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