Posted on 07/08/2014 6:45:05 AM PDT by markomalley
There is bad news for moonbats who don’t eat meat because it is morally wrong to devour the flesh of murdered animals: plants don’t like getting eaten either.
According to a study by Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft at the University of Missouri, plants can identify the sound of caterpillars chewing and react to it defensively.
In the study, caterpillars were placed on Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard.
Using a laser and a tiny piece of reflective material on the leaf of the plant, Cocroft was able to measure the movement of the leaf in response to the chewing caterpillar.
Cocroft and Appel then played back recordings of caterpillar feeding vibrations to one set of plants, but played back only silence to the other set of plants.
When caterpillars later fed on both sets of plants, the researchers found that the plants previously exposed to feeding vibrations produced more mustard oils, a chemical that is unappealing to many caterpillars.
‘What is remarkable is that the plants exposed to different vibrations, including those made by a gentle wind or different insect sounds that share some acoustic features with caterpillar feeding vibrations did not increase their chemical defenses,’ Cocroft said.
Imagine the horror of being eaten alive. Who is to say that the lettuce and alfalfa sprouts in your bowl don’t experience this agony. You salad would beg you for mercy, if only it knew how.
Maybe it would be most morally righteous to not eat anything at all.
Oh, the HORROR! A bowl of salad is the equivalent of mass murder! The snap of crisp vegetables is really s scream, that juicy tomato is bleeding! Murderers! Vegans can’t even drink water- amoeba live in it! Maybe this is natural selection- humans who feel too guilty to live will starve themselves.
What about bacteria and viruses? They are people too!
Exactly. Just tried to post that. ;)
The late John Lennon is said to have lived on synthetic protein & vitamins. He stopped eating plant life after hearing a cornstalk sob when stripped of one of its ears.
Anyone knows that slicing an onion brings tears. This is the result of a revenge pheromone that is released when the onion is harmed.
KIds who hate eating their vegetables are vindicated!
Ascetics in the Hindu Jain sect practice an extreme level of non-violence that leads them to cover their mouths and sweep the ground before them with small brushes to avoid injuring the most minuscule forms of life.
Plants can read your mind.
http://www.mindpowernews.com/MindPlantCommunication.htm
“There was a men’s urinal next door to the lab. Every time it was flushed, the plant reacted. It was finally concluded that the disinfectant in the cistern was destroying cells in the body’s excretions. But the strangest thing was that when the person using the urinal was aware of this effect there was no reaction from the plant!”
Just the act of breathing kills millions of microbes with each breath ... mask or no mask. The bodies immune system kills many more. The best a concerned (read imbecilic) person can do is to kill themselves and become worm food.
At least they will no longer be in the gene pool and will hopefully make room for someone who may actually have a brain.
I can’t make that claim having had moving fish, urchins, shellfish, etc.
Thanks. I had forgotten most of this information as it was a long long time ago. Too many brain cells killed on purpose and otherwise. I read that all the memories are still in ones brain but the pathways to retrive it are what degrade.
That is, until a study comes out showing that noodles can feel pain.
However, fruit wants us to eat it so it can “propagate”...where do you think the seeds go?
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