The World Still Has Too Many Researchers

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1. Yay vegan anguish!

2. In space you cannot hear your broccoli scream

3. Revelation! But one wonders if the said “researchers” had ever wondered why Mimosa pudica is known as the “sensitive plant.” The Venus flytrap actively traps insect prey. Some other plants, my nose tells me, respond chemically to disruption but I don’t remember their names.
   And shamrocks and at least one of the species tulip will respond quickly to low light levels.

4. …and then there is this new study from the University of the painfully obvious which found that common plant life on the planet is more intelligent than the average liberal voter. Plants consistently scored higher on IQ testing than those voters who use a ballot for self destructive ends.

5. Years ago, some notable scientific publication presented an article intended to demonstrate that tomatoes feel pain when sliced.
   Since then, the moral high ground claimed by the vegans has continued to erode.
   Before long, there will be silent lawn mowers, and you’ll be forced to listen to the screams.

6. Well, I guess we know where this is going. Since humans do need nourishment to survive, and eating animals and bugs etc. is out and now very likely plants will be protected as well. I wonder if it will be alright if we eat each other. I know we are also animals but PETA doesn’t really see humans as such.

7. I guess we had best cook all those vegetables. no more salads.

8. Plants smarter than turkeys! Which turkeys? Al Gore and David Suzuki.

9. I guess we can expect to see a new pressure group soon……PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants)

10. Explains why four leafed clover hide so well…

11. Plants are smarter than turkeys which in turn are smarter than 99% of the progressives I have met.

12. This is old news. recall back in the ’60s……
    Call any vegetable Call it by name
    Call one today When you get off the train
    Call any vegetable And the chances are good
    Aw, The vegetable will respond to you.
    Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Absolutely Free, 1967.

13. Okay, so the article is written a bit goofily. (Plants have feelings. HA HA.)
    However, there is merit in some sorts of seemingly weird knowledge.
    “the thale cress actually produces some mustard oils and sends them through the leaves to deter predators”
    Understanding how plants respond to pests is important. It is a small part of how we feed 8 billion people on earth. Pests account for (what?) the loss of something like 20% of total crop production either in the field or in storage.
    So they ID the gene that is responsible for the increased levels of mustard oils. They put the gene into another crop bothered by an insect. Yeah yeah, a new GMO plant that increases insect resistance of that new GMO crop plant. Great stuff!!
    So there can be reason in what seems like sheer madness. I suspect this specific article was written with some poetic license and ignored possible practical aspects.
    Knowledge is not necessarily a bad thing.

14. That is an interesting research project. Since these plants are now proven by “scientists” to have intelligence, let the plants design and carry out an experiment to find out if American libruls have intelligence. That ought to be worth a lot of NSF grants.