Plants Can Tell When They’re Being Eaten And Send Distress Signalls - take this vegetarians - Polidicks

[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://modernfarmer.com/2014/10/plants-can-tell-theyre-eaten/"] Source[/URL] Come on guys, stop eating us.

What are you gonna eat now vegetarians?

So will vegeterians resort to filter feeding now?

How do they take to smoking?

They will only eat fallen leaves now

OP's name fits

Does this make a well kept lawn something akin to a plant purgatory?

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM]Carrot juice constitutes murder Greenhouses prisons for slaves It's time to stop all this gardening Let's call a spade a spade[/url]

Well this certainly puts the definition of intelligence to the test. I'm guessing the plants' cells are basically just signalling in a particular way in response to external stimuli - but on a basic level this is also what goes on in a animal or human brain.

"take this vegetarians" very mature, also this is old news.

Is this if you eat the leaf off the plant, like a deer? Or even veggies that have been whole plucked and out of the ground already?

[QUOTE=rewkasu;46286932]What are you gonna eat now vegetarians?[/QUOTE] Very small rocks.

Tbh vegetarianism is still the more morally acceptable option, but not one I am willing to make the effort for right now

those wacky VEGANIitarians!! Thanks SCience!

[QUOTE=cucumber;46286914][URL="http://modernfarmer.com/2014/10/plants-can-tell-theyre-eaten/"] Source[/URL] Come on guys, stop eating us.[/QUOTE] Actually NOVA and Nature both had hour specials on this last year, the smell of cut grass is a defense mechanism designed to ward off the animals doing it by attracting other animals to eat them. The plant kingdom is like the animal kingdom on a vastly slower scale.

I can't really back this up, but if this is in line with grass releasing that "freshly cut lawn" smell as a distress signal (apparently against insect attacks), then I guess it makes a lot of sense :V [editline]20th October 2014[/editline] god dammit

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;46287282]Tbh vegetarianism is still the more morally acceptable option, but not one I am willing to make the effort for right now[/QUOTE] Your opinion is wrong. Cannibalism is the only morally acceptable option.

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;46287282]Tbh vegetarianism is still the more morally acceptable option, but not one I am willing to make the effort for right now[/QUOTE] tbh veganism is, not so much vegetarianism. it's at least some effort though

This is why i cut cucumbers first before i eat them

Where is the study?

[QUOTE=Megadave;46286962]How do they take to smoking?[/QUOTE] Marijuana leaves feel a bit of pain at first when lit, but eventually get too baked to care

They won't say anything because the issue at hand with vegetarians, as I see it after reading and reading tons of discussion, is: Pain. Simply put, if vegetarians were to be asked, "Would you eat meat if a method to painlessly end the life of an animal was invented?", I am 100% percent sure they would say "I don't know".

[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;46287609]They won't say anything because the issue at hand with vegetarians, as I see it after reading and reading tons of discussion, is: Pain. Simply put, if vegetarians were to be asked, "Would you eat meat if a method to painlessly end the life of an animal was invented?", I am 100% percent sure they would say "I don't know".[/QUOTE] You do realize that most take issue with "end the life of an animal" part as well? Literally growing meat would be the only sure solution they may like.

[QUOTE=demoguy08;46287102]Well this certainly puts the definition of intelligence to the test. I'm guessing the plants' cells are basically just signalling in a particular way in response to external stimuli - but on a basic level this is also what goes on in a animal or human brain.[/QUOTE] It's literally just chemical reactions, there's no more intelligence in a plant than there is in a stone. [editline]20th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Cutthecrap;46287609]They won't say anything because the issue at hand with vegetarians, as I see it after reading and reading tons of discussion, is: Pain. Simply put, if vegetarians were to be asked, "Would you eat meat if a method to painlessly end the life of an animal was invented?", I am 100% percent sure they would say "I don't know".[/QUOTE] We have, bolt guns to the brain stem, kills them stone dead, besides there are people who hate the texture, folk who hate battery farming, there are people who just fundamentally hate the concept of eating something that was once alive. There will always be vegans and vegetarians.

It might be my stupid brain but I' sure I've heard of something like this ages ago? Some even send out chemicals that tell other plants of the same species that an "enemy" is attacking, I think it was tobacco.

[QUOTE=bravehat;46287787]It's literally just chemical reactions, there's no more intelligence in a plant than there is in a stone. [editline]20th October 2014[/editline] We have, bolt guns to the brain stem, kills them stone dead, besides there are people who hate the texture, folk who hate battery farming, there are people who just fundamentally hate the concept of eating something that was once alive. There will always be vegans and vegetarians.[/QUOTE] How is the cucumber posting tehn???

[QUOTE=Killuah;46287826]It might be my stupid brain but I' sure I've heard of something like this ages ago? Some even send out chemicals that tell other plants of the same species that an "enemy" is attacking, I think it was tobacco.[/QUOTE] Yeah we've known about this for a decade or some shit, there's plants that send out distress signals when caterpillars are eating them and shit so other bugs come and fuck them up.

I've always thought that eating plants couldn't be right if killing animals and eating them wasn't right. Plants live as well and even though they might not exhibit the same intelligence as animals, even on a much smaller level it's still there. Even humans, the most intelligent species we know, is a bunch of stimuli and reactions happening in the brain. How simple is life allowed to be for us to kill it and still be moral?

[QUOTE=Tinter;46287892]I've always thought that eating plants couldn't be right if killing animals and eating them wasn't right. Plants live as well and even though they might not exhibit the same intelligence as animals, even on a much smaller level it's still there. Even humans, the most intelligent species we know, is a bunch of stimuli and reactions happening in the brain. How simple is life allowed to be for us to kill it and still be moral?[/QUOTE] Who cares about being moral? They're animals and plants, we need to eat, I don't care if they have to die, and plants sure as shit aren't intelligent, they respond to stimuli, so does every animal but that doesn't mean they're intelligent.

[QUOTE=bravehat;46287787]It's literally just chemical reactions, there's no more intelligence in a plant than there is in a stone. [editline]20th October 2014[/editline] We have, bolt guns to the brain stem, kills them stone dead, besides there are people who hate the texture, folk who hate battery farming, there are people who just fundamentally hate the concept of eating something that was once alive. There will always be vegans and vegetarians.[/QUOTE] If they hate the concept of eating something that was once alive, then they are totally incoherent and are irrational. The only rational side I can see in the vegetarian world-view, is the economic and environmental impacts eating animals have. The ethics side is...just wrong.