[Kosh]

Plants can think and remember

Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems.

These "electro-chemical signals" are carried by cells that act as "nerves" of the plants.

In their experiment, the scientists showed that light shone on to one leaf caused the whole plant to respond.

And the response, which took the form of light-induced chemical reactions in the leaves, continued in the dark.

This showed, they said, that the plant "remembered" the information encoded in light.

"We shone the light only on the bottom of the plant and we observed changes in the upper part," explained Professor Stanislaw Karpinski from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Poland, who led this research.

He presented the findings at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.

So eating animals is cruel and now eating plants is also cruel, what's left to eat?

[StarSlayer]

Soylent Green

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Just drink beer. 

[StarSlayer]

Just drink beer. 

Barley and hops man its made of plants.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Yes but only the seeds of dying plants.  Their memory lives on with every flush. 

[mjn.mixael]

Just drink beer. 

AMEN

[Rodo]

cool, somewhat intelligent plants... no better than that, intelligent genes.

[Snail]

Eat them anyway.

[Dark RevenantX]

Meh, it tastes the best when it's sentient.

[Snail]

Meh, it tastes the best when it's sentient.

Snails are sapient and thus should not be eaten.

[headdie]

Plants can think and remember

Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems.

These "electro-chemical signals" are carried by cells that act as "nerves" of the plants.

In their experiment, the scientists showed that light shone on to one leaf caused the whole plant to respond.

And the response, which took the form of light-induced chemical reactions in the leaves, continued in the dark.

This showed, they said, that the plant "remembered" the information encoded in light.

"We shone the light only on the bottom of the plant and we observed changes in the upper part," explained Professor Stanislaw Karpinski from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Poland, who led this research.

He presented the findings at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.

So eating animals is cruel and now eating plants is also cruel, what's left to eat?

Avatar anyone??????

[StarSlayer]

I tend to think eating bad M. Night Shyamalan movies would give you indigestion.

[Flipside]

Always felt it odd that insects, one of the richest sources of nutrients there is, have fallen out of vogue in the West. I'm dubious about eating them myself, but that's social conditioning, if we could get over that phobia in the industrialised world, it could actually make quite an impact.

[Snail]

Always felt it odd that insects, one of the richest sources of nutrients there is, have fallen out of vogue in the West. I'm dubious about eating them myself, but that's social conditioning, if we could get over that phobia in the industrialised world, it could actually make quite an impact.

Silkworm Kebabs. Best in the world.










Never tried and sounds revolting actually

[StarSlayer]

Always felt it odd that insects, one of the richest sources of nutrients there is, have fallen out of vogue in the West. I'm dubious about eating them myself, but that's social conditioning, if we could get over that phobia in the industrialised world, it could actually make quite an impact.

cuz Bear Grylls looks like he's going to yak every time he scoffs one down, and this is a guy that drank water squeezed out of elephant droppings.  

[Flipside]

Heh, I think the thing is that, when you are drinking it, water is water, but an insect is still an insect

[Nuke]

what we in the west dont realize is the amount of insect material that ends up in our food anyway.

[Mongoose]

Always felt it odd that insects, one of the richest sources of nutrients there is, have fallen out of vogue in the West. I'm dubious about eating them myself, but that's social conditioning, if we could get over that phobia in the industrialised world, it could actually make quite an impact.

Social conditioning be damned, I make it a strict policy not to eat anything that creeps me the hell out when it's alive.

[SpardaSon21]

Do insects even taste good?  That, more than anything else, is what determines what people eat.

[NGTM-1R]

Do insects even taste good?  That, more than anything else, is what determines what people eat.

Majority answer appears to be no, with some exceptions.