February 3, 2018 04:17 am PST
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Everything we eat screams
The New York Times' Joanna Klein reports that plants express qualities of consciousness. May as well enjoy those dolphinburgers after all!
Plants are not just robotic, stimulus-response devices, said Frantisek Baluska, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany and co-author of the study. Theyre living organisms which have their own problems, maybe something like with humans feeling pain or joy. In order to navigate this complex life, they must have some compass.
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