1y ago

Plant communication captured on video for the first time ever

www.earth.com

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What now, vegans?
- Eating plants is better for plants than eating animals that eat plants.
  Also, sympathy with animals is only one possible reason to be a vegan. Some people are motivated differently (environment protection).
  
  Yeah bit of a weird take. What now? I'll keep making the more sustainable choice I guess
- Your electronic devices are communicating with each other yet you keep on using them like your personal slaves. You monster.
  
  Okay, GLaDOS.
- I'm vegan and this is so obviously not an issue ethically. Never mind that vastly more plants need to be harvested to feed livestock, this is a chemical response that is in no way similar to the pain an animal feels.
  Go cut your lawn and then kill baby cow and try to tell me it's the same.
  
  "This is a chemical response..." As opposed to sensation of pain, which is a also chemical signal? All sensation is chemical signaling. In fact all your experience of life. Us the result of chemical signaling. (Like dopamine, Serotonin, etc)
  I agree with everything you said, it's just that this was a terrible argument.
  
  c/woosh
  Too bad the joke wasn't obvious.
  
  Interesting, as explained in the article the smell (VOC) we would experience of a newly cut lawn would technically be the cries of the plants. So other plants see it as a warning and they bolster their defenses. Ain't that no different from a baby cow being killed slowly probably through a predator. It would communicate through cries. Making similar animals interpret this as a warning perhaps making them react by running away or fighting back. Maybe we don't see the VOC as act of cry because we simply don't have any idea how to process it, since we're not plants. Though we could argue that plants does not have consciousness as we're aware of while animals do.
  Edit: anyways not trying to question your choice of veganism, I think it's a noble choice. I just wanted to share my thought on that statement you mentioned.
  
  vastly more plants need to be harvested to feed livestock,
  i don't think this is true. many breeds are ruminants, and no plants are harvested for them at all, as they graze. i don't think it's strictly true that any plant ever needs to be harvested to be fed to livestock.
- Most likely they'll continue to heavily downvote me when I describe the complex communication systems plants and fungi have.
  
  I see comments like this and realize something is defederated for my instance somewhere and I’m missing half of the conversations OR half of y’all need to up your dosage 😂
  
  We'll, you called it haha
  
  I'm sorry to hear that's happening.
- They'll start to photosynthesis now
  
  We already photosynthesize vitamin D
So what happens when I mow my lawn? Are the carrots upset that we eat them?
- The smell of fresh cut grass is the smell of grass screaming.
  
  As much as your PC giving out error beeps is the computer in agony.
- The Happening is what happens
  
  You just reminded me I'm still angry I saw that in theaters all those years ago...lmao.
- I'm sure the pigs and cows are upset but that certainly hasn't stopped us.
  
  I mean they literally aren't.
  They get food and shelter and aren't aware of their end.
  Nature is fucking brutal. It's survival in easy mode.
These are the cries of the carrots. Let the rabbits wear glasses!
- This. Is. Necessary.
Every pricker bush when I brush up against the side of the trail:
"Get him!"
Really beautiful short video!
- I clicked through to the article but don't see a video (or a link to any video). Am I blind?
  
  Theres an embedded player about 1/3 of the way down, but its not obvious that its a video player
What should be more interesting than understand the communication, is to invest that time and money in stop Deforestation and land clearing.

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