Bad News For Vegetarians: Plants Can Hear Themselves Being Eaten

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Bad News For Vegetarians: Plants Can Hear Themselves Being Eaten

Bad News For Vegetarians: Plants Can Hear Themselves Being Eaten

• by karishma
• in General
• — 24 May, 2015

Can these tomatoes hear the crunch?
Are you a vegan or vegetarian who stopped eating meat because you wanted to spare animals’ feelings? While I honestly lift my hat off to your noble actions (no sarcasm here, really), there’s some bad news ahead. A study conducted by the University of Missouri has suggested that plants are able to hear themselves being eaten.



Scientists recorded vibrations and the sounds of a caterpillar chewing on a plant. They then played these recordings back to another plant, and after a few hours the plant released mustard oil – a substance that caterpillars are aversive to.

Senior research scientist Heidi Appel commented on how these findings could benefit agricultural practices, saying “ “Understanding how plants detect and respond to sounds in their environment provides us with new ways to help plants defend themselves against their insect pests.”

Therefore, if they’ve not already caught on, vegetarians and vegans can breathe sighs of relief knowing that only live plants respond to being eaten with defense mechanisms. However, the study also indicates that plants do feel something when being harvested. While you ponder that, watch the video below to help you understand more about the study.

 

[Kabira]

Tell that to Indians who kill them every day.

 

[NIA]

Tell that to Indians who kill them every day.

And pakistani kill many animals for their meal and release methane with every burp!!

 

[faisal6309]

And pakistani kill many animals for their meal and release methane with every burp!!

We eat animals and they die.
You eat food of animals and they die of hunger

Vegetarian animals have eyes on both sides of their heads so they can find hunter and escape before their attack. Hunter's eyes are on front (like us) and it helps us to measure distance that helps us to know how much time it will take to reach target. We are hunters and not vegetarians.

 

[Vassnti]

We are hunters and not vegetarians.

Close but more some thing in the middle. Were designed to eat any thing, being a specalist is nice but being an omnivore lets you get a meal from anything that cant get away.

Omnivores
Omnivores, such as raccoons, opossums, bears, and humans, are animals that consume both plant and animal material. Accordingly, omnivores have dentition, skulls, and teeth suitable for handling a variety of foods. Most omnivores have evolved different types of teeth, located in different parts of their mouths. In such scenarios, each type of tooth excels at handling a different type of food. For example, humans use their incisors and canines for ripping and cutting, and their molars and premolars for grinding.

 

[aqdus]

Close but more some thing in the middle. Were designed to eat any thing, being a specalist is nice but being an omnivore lets you get a meal from anything that cant get away.

Omnivores
Omnivores, such as raccoons, opossums, bears, and humans, are animals that consume both plant and animal material. Accordingly, omnivores have dentition, skulls, and teeth suitable for handling a variety of foods. Most omnivores have evolved different types of teeth, located in different parts of their mouths. In such scenarios, each type of tooth excels at handling a different type of food. For example, humans use their incisors and canines for ripping and cutting, and their molars and premolars for grinding.

OK I bet you cant Explain this phenomenon to our indian vegiterian friends and they will never ever agree with you cause they are all shakshari not masahari.

 

[Star Wars]

OK I bet you cant Explain this phenomenon to our indian vegiterian friends and they will never ever agree with you cause they are all shakshari not masahari.

Why are you Pakistanis so obsessed with hating everything what Indians do ? IF some Indians are Vegetarians, lets start hating them too .

 

[Vassnti]

Guessing at the meanings because shakshari came up as pigeon in google but seeing masahari was meat eater i will guess it means vegetarian.

All for people (other people) being vegetarian, with a balanced diet there is no reason for modern man to kill things to survive. Just because we have eyes and teeth adapted to hunt doesnt mean we need to to survive. How many of us ever catch our own food? At best we scavenge or meat from the kills of others in the supermarket.

Me i grew up in the country and love a good steak but to each his own.

 

[OrionHunter]

So, don't eat vegetables, don't eat meat! Then WTF are we to eat?

 

[nForce]

We eat animals and they die.
You eat food of animals and they die of hunger

Vegetarian animals have eyes on both sides of their heads so they can find hunter and escape before their attack. Hunter's eyes are on front (like us) and it helps us to measure distance that helps us to know how much time it will take to reach target. We are hunters and not vegetarians.

lol..do you go out hunting for meat everyday or visit the nearest market ?

 

[Levina]

IF some Indians are Vegetarians, lets start hating them too .

I do not eat non-veg..now I guess I will have to quit eating vegetables too.

So, don't eat vegetables, don't eat meat! Then WTF are we to eat?

Pulses may be...

 

[Star Wars]

I do not eat non-veg..now I guess I will have to quit eating vegetables too.

Kam se kam weight to kam hojayagi

 

[Levina]

Kam se kam weight to kam hojayagi

Ab kya under weight ho jaoon??

 

[faisal6309]

lol..do you go out hunting for meat everyday or visit the nearest market ?

LOL, check last post of Vassnti. It will give you answer. But you do know that men use to hunt and eat in the past when there were no super markets or even building.

 

[Star Wars]

Ab kya under weight ho jaoon??

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