Karamazov wrote:
And the screaming vegetables is a hippy thing: I think brought up in jest.
It's more a matter of knowing that plants use pheromones to communicate and that one of the things they'll communicate is when they're being damaged, causing co-specifics to respond to the threat.
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The evidence for plant communication is only a few decades old, but in that short time it has leapfrogged from electrifying discovery to decisive debunking to resurrection. Two studies published in 1983 demonstrated that willow trees, poplars and sugar maples can warn each other about insect attacks: Intact, undamaged trees near ones that are infested with hungry bugs begin pumping out bug-repelling chemicals to ward off attack. They somehow know what their neighbors are experiencing, and react to it. The mind-bending implication was that brainless trees could send, receive and interpret messages.
https://www.wired.com/2013/12/secret-la ... of-plants/https://www.techtimes.com/articles/2343 ... -eaten.htmBasically, whether or not it's "a hippy thing brought up in jest" or not, there's actually a credible basis for the notion. Whether or not it applies to harvested fruit and vegetables would be another matter from whether or not it occurs in plants that are rooted and growing.
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Watching liberals try to solve societal problems without a systemic critique/class consciousness is like watching someone in the dark try to flip on the light switch, but they keep turning on the garbage disposal instead.
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