Current Events > Plants can tell when they're being eaten, according to a study

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https://modernfarmer.com/2014/10/plants-can-tell-theyre-eaten/

Someone commented that vegans will soon be eating their own body hair.

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-83446,00.html

I was a vegetarian on and off growing up, and I'm now a srtict vegan. I struggle daily with whether I should sacrifice the life of a plant to eat, when I can find the same nutrition from a fruit (if you research fruit nutrition many people survive more than happy healthy lives). I adore my garden and house plants and know what they need to be happy/healthy, and so when it comes to eating one I can't help but think twice. Fruit seems to be given to us by the plants, bushes and trees they come from, they want to provide for us the best they have offer so that we will spread their seed. COHABITATION! Name another life form that WANTS to feed us?. The very fact that in the first stagest of life on Earth, everything was evolving from plants (making them our orignal ansestors), I think should help us in giving them the respect they deserve....

AnnMichelle, Wirral uk

If plants do indeed feel pain, then it's still better to be vegan since you're only causing plants pain. To eat meat, you cause the animals to feel pain plus all the plants that the animal ate in its lifetime.

Joshua Matthews, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

After years of struggling with the decision and one or two failed attempts, this year I finally committed to becoming a vegetarian. Not a full vegan because there are so many products that use animal by-products, it seems virtually impossible to avoid them all and still have any type of existence other than the stereotypical "hippie" label would suggest. But my changeover has been a transitional one. No chicken, beef or pork...that was easy, but now I am thinking I need to eliminate fish and shrimp as well. Cheese has been a struggle since most cheeses use an enzyme made from the stomach lining of slaughtered calves, so I am still searching for a veggie cheese I can consistently find in the area where I live. Plants feeling pain is such a gray area that I have to side with people who say "if you rule out meat AND veggies...that only leaves fruit because it is given to us by Nature herself without the need for harvesting." However, I am a diabetic, so a fruit only diet is out of the question...even natural sugars are too much sugar in my case. So I struggle to find a balance between nutritional requirements vs. ethical considerations vs. culinary desires, but I'm working on it and hopefully making good choices. As for the "GOD" argument that so many people use to defend killing animals and eating meat, there is no scientific data to back up that GOD even exists, so that argument is a moot point and has no place in this debate. I'm not an atheist or an agnostic, but there are MANY things that I don't agree with GOD about, so don't try to sell me with any GOD rhetoric because it has no substance or fact base to it. GOD also gave us the choice to be murderers and child molestors...he says it's wrong, but he still gave us the power of free will to engage in those types of behaviors, so does that justify them? Personally, I would say no...but then again, I'm not a hater like some of the God-ites I've met from time to time. I'm a student of science and history and God and his demented minions here on earth have wreaked more havoc on the world than any other belief system out there, so let's just drop the "God gave us choices" arguments altogether and just focus on the facts and the ethical considerations.

Phil, Jackson USA

I have castrated many men, by cutting off their balls and even by biting them off. I believe it is a womans right to castrate men because women are superior to men. I use the testicles as earrings to show that I am proud to be a castratrix.

Linda

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Assplay led to this
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Yeah, I watch a documentary on how plants communicate. The plant could actually tell what was attacking it, then attract something that preys on it. Fucking crazy.
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Yo that Linda bitch be savage
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Plants are far more complex than we give them credit for. While they don't have a central nervous system, they can feel pain, they just don't care about it the same way we do. They might use it as a stimulus to take another action, but that's all.

They can also move. And I don't mean just their leaves. They can literally "walk" it's just extremely slow and time lapse videos taken over the course of years shows them moving around
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