Are plants conscious? | Stefano Mancuso | TEDxGranVíaSalon

[@rajendramuley5838]

Ignorance of 0.3% of Mother Earth about 99.7%of it has probably caused the present crisis and as such this presentation is of immense importance. Awareness like this needs to be scaled up, so that unjust destruction of plants and forests stops on top most priority. Thanks a lot for an excellent. presentation.

[@willygrags4367]

Plants give us so much but all we do is take from them and destroy them. The way we treat our planet makes me deeply sad. Praise and love your plants.

[@jeremyr7147]

These industrial agriculture mass fields are like prisions for plants.

[@Sammie551]

eating them is part of destroying them

[@mehrangerami187]

not to mention the pesticide we spray them with so not only they get sick but also kill the bees who are doing their job! The vegans may just be the culprit who are assisting the planet with deterioration of the planet not the cows that are doing their thing nor the human. Should we treat animals and plants with dignity and value??? Absolutely! 09/20/2023

[@daisybackstar]

I live among humans, they think I'm a normal girl, but in fact I'm an alien plant, I'm imitating the human form, but in fact I'm a plant.@@jeremyr7147

[@jeremyr7147]

@@daisybackstar I identify as a Russian so whatever 🤣

[@CarlosGonzalez-hq2lh]

This really changed my mind, plants are wonderful living things, knowing they have some level of consciousness is just amazing!

[@mehrangerami187]

if they could only speak they will tell you about their feelings and how disgusted they are with the vegans. 09/20/2023

[@daisybackstar]

I live among humans, they think I'm a normal girl, but in fact I'm an alien plant, I'm imitating the human form, but in fact I'm a plant.@@mehrangerami187

[@dustyeddy1046]

Great talk! Dear TEDx, as an audio engineer, I can tell you that even if the source recording is so poorly mixed, it is worth it to hand off to an engineer like myself to at least do some rebalancing of levels. Especially with such important topics as these.

[@youget2]

And with a variety of volumes

[@VladOnEarth]

they are a bunch of lazy fcks, they dont care man. We all understand your point and agree.

[@malcolmparkins1935]

Were you able to normalize this one and re-upload it yet? (asking for a friend)... lol

[@A129WOLFY]

cant believe I only just found this now, but I'm very glad I did. So nice to hear someone so passionate about plants

[@silverhairdemon]

Too bad the sound is so crappy, but a good presentation. Plants are so much more than they appear to be.

[@natureknows2850]

Blame the vegan audio engineer.

[@kornbread5359]

Nature Knows 😂😂😂

[@midnightmusic1087]

Ok, so pain is part of evolution so that organisms can escape danger. So plants having consciousness and pain would be totally useless for the plants. Also, if you really thought plants had consciousness, you would be vegan. 66% of all plants are used to feed livestock, so being vegan would save more plants and animals than eating animal products.

[@GabS-o1m]

@@midnightmusic1087 True. But if everyone went vegan then there would be other demands and issues we’d have to deal with. Some people cannot be sustained on a vegan diet either. I think the problem mainly lies in how much meat humans consume and the way it’s done. Really it’s all about a balance and you can still be ethical while eating meat. If we reduce the amount of animal products being used, then the environment would be in a much better shape.

[@Octoberfurst]

Yeah I had to turn up the volume full blast just to hear him talk.

[@risingsun3907]

Pump up the volume!

[@334GTE]

À

[@Theaurumproject]

Thank you for this interesting talk. I have just listened to it now after reading your book “The nation of plants” and enjoyed it very much

[@solarpanel8195]

plants DO have senses to sense danger and other things.. thats why whenever a human eats something from the earth we should be giving thanks to the plant and to the earth for providing for us. this causes whatever we eat to accept it. this is the way of our ancestors

[@M.C._3369]

Solar Panel Agreed!

[@solarpanel8195]

@Earth Angel totally agree with this. Whatever we use from the earth we should put back in some way. I highly recommend everyone start growing as much food and herbs as they possibly can in these strange times we are living in. 🙏🏻

[@VladOnEarth]

That's why we should only eat what is called a "fruit" because it is meant for eating, not a plant body itself. Almost every fruit is basically designed to be eaten.

[@solarpanel8195]

@@VladOnEarth kinda. Fruits are actually a plants reproductive system... They're meant to reproduce the plant in some way. We eat them because those parts contain the most nutrients /water etc.

[@malcolmparkins1935]

@@VladOnEarth Are you currently on an all fruit diet?

[@vishalthakur5359]

Knowledge is everywhere.

[@daisybackstar]

I live among humans, they think I'm a normal girl, but in fact I'm an alien plant, I'm imitating the human form, but in fact I'm a plant.

[@mollyclock8238]

my understanding of plants, has been blown out of the water, (......m..)

[@chastitywhiterose]

6:07 Notice that the venus fly trap waited until most of the the slug was inside the leaf before it closed on it.

[@stevieray667]

Chandler Klebs yah i notice like if the plant was knowing what to do weird..

[@nuechternheit]

Because the slug touched that hair which probably sends a signal to close its leaf?

[@lilaclizard4504]

yeh they count to 5 - literally! Actually this is beyond that. They have trigger hairs & need 2 touches of these to close, then another 3 touches after closing to lock & produce digestive juices, but theoretically (and scientifically tested) the same hair touched twice will cause it to close & yet in this case it waited until the slug was in contact with all the trigger hairs. I'm guessing this is probably something beyond the science testing that was done, whereby if the touched trigger hair is not released, then it needs either release or touching of hairs on the exit end of the trap before it closes (the hairs are located on both sides along the full length, you can see the hair it touches to close in that video, but it's already on at least 2 others (one on each side of the trap) that it's in contact with. fascinating really & logical, despite their common name, venus flytraps are actually designed to catch crawling/sliding bugs not flies, so a slug is it's bread & butter

[@chiranjeevibelagur2275]

Yeah.... I too saw that and at the same time I have seen other videos where in the trap is closed when only a half/ a part of the full length of the insect was in. There are quite a few possible reasons that hit my thoughts: 1. As per the research there is a timer that starts when one hair is touched. The other hair must be touched within a couple of seconds/micro seconds might be (which I am not sure of the numbers). If not touched within that prefixed time won't get triggered. Just that the slug moves slowly it didn't trigger any two hair within the fixed time. I think the trap knew bout this hence evolved to have two hair very close to each other at the end coz of which the slug might have touched both the hair within the time limit and couldn't get escaped. 2. The Venus flytrap would have come across these slow moving insects before too. We also found that the plants have memory and thus it has it in its memory that this show moving insects won't pass faster so can wait until the hair is touched at the exit (as that's the opposite side to the slug entered) and then close so that the flytrap would get a complete advantage of its meal. Ideally, anything could be the reason for this you never know 😉.... I didn't wanted to make my response anymore lengthy by writing more ideas those are running in my weird brain...😊😊So ending it for just 2. Well, so what do you guys think might be the reason behind this??

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

there are 2 trigger hairs on the plant - so it centers the victim inside the leaf

[@greghawkins1025]

You speak very good English. Thank you for teaching us about this subject,

[@ElGuimaro]

Plants are very light sensitive, it's almost their core business. The space surrounding the bean plants is very blue. The pole is red. I wouldn't be surprised if the light-sensitive cells in the plant are affected by this contrast in spectrum. As soon as one plant reaches the pole, the spectrum of the pole changes from red towards green. That's not an explanation for 'winning' or 'losing'. I'm still sceptical..

[@tanyawales5445]

The cells that sense light are in the leaves and the leaves of each plant are pointed towards the light. The color of the pole has nothing to do with the outcome of the experiment.

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

And what u dont think colorblind people are real people?

[@skiddlyd.244]

How can he believe that we evolved to ignore plants so as to not be overloaded with information? Prehistoric humans and indigenous people had to know all about the different plants in their area to know what was useful and what was poisonous or useless.

[@anavonrebeur6121]

Yesh, but they ignored their conciousness

[@thetruthseeker1606]

Great talk. Loved it!

[@melissaroot1092]

How lucky are we that he delivered his incredible knowledge in our language. I am starting a food forest as my legacy and I will never look at plants the same way. I was watering newly planted asparagus and felt such love, also with my Linden tree, I can’t get over it.

[@daisybackstar]

I live among humans, they think I'm a normal girl, but in fact I'm an alien plant, I'm imitating the human form, but in fact I'm a plant.

[@JulieRainbow-q6p]

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein Love, peace, unity x

[@Thundralight]

Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object[ or] something within oneself

[@VFAHSN]

How do we know if one is aware or just automatically responding to a stimulous?

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

@@VFAHSN theres not a difference?

[@mropinionated2849]

Despite the audio bugs it was a very good video. Glad I watched.

[@تشجير]

سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم 💚💚🌴🌴❤️❤️💙💙

[@iammygloriousbrain5870]

I believe that plant are people too

[@cory5495]

I don't see why not. If they are conscious they are just like us, except created differently.

[@imranimmii6027]

In my first sight I noticed the greenery, I believe plant can think, move, weep, and answer

[@basilcomitis7126]

Awesome video, thank you.

[@manasi1844]

Ancient Indians were aware about the consciousness of plants. There is whole chapter in 'Mahabharata' on plants. Proud to be Indian.

[@aurorachavez1995]

Great information. Tkanks

[@moofymoo]

I think we should start a plant right movement/organization. PLANTA?

[@indigenouseuropeanamerican5976]

their is alteady a plant rights movement u can find them all over youtube if looked in the right place.

[@thegreatestshenfan6484]

PLANTIFA

[@Zulu369]

Volume of recording sound is quite low. I had to put mine to the max in order to hear the speaker. Next time, provide subtitles to help viewers enjoy this type of video.

[@AshutoshSingh-on8zt]

Just as the Physicist enters the video, he is proper loud - as Physicists usually are. And when we are back to the plant biologist, he is soft and low volume again - just like his other cousins of science. Wonderful talk this one though irrespective of the volume.

[@l.g.a.8930]

Very interesting all the time and thank you for this video :)

[@tonmoyacharjee2491]

Very nice explanation..

[@inderjotsinghh]

Thank you!

[@heather_hill_HHH]

I stopped eating meat of animals and went to plant based diet /vegan because human manipulation, "farm" and influence can clearly make animal suffer. But then this makes me think of plants. I think I made right choice (there doesn''t seem to be immediate clear pain responses involved), but if plants are also sensitive and conscious, where does that leave a person who "wants to do no harm"? We have plants killed harvested for food, we cut down trees for wood, we cut down trees for roads and buildings. Etc.

[@fenryx0]

I remember when I was about 8 or 9 years age I was wandering through the forest. I had a toy which was VERY sharp and decided to go "cutting" things off. I recall cutting some plants that resembled thistles. They secreted some sort of white liquid that I'd later on in life would go on to know is sap. I felt terrible after knowing that (still kinda do).

[@OneEyedDrummerTDHE]

If you ever watch plants in fast forward it strongly suggests so. No one said all conscious is experienced at the same speed.

[@wilsnerbarrera]

In the ancestral is not something new and more, recognizing that everything is alive, has consciousness and is part of energy. All the information I handle and share with the people who follow me, come from plants like tobacco, coca and yage. It is already determined that some plants are going to be food, other ornamentation, medicine and wisdom. They are still very far from understanding that it is the nature and its function with us before the universe

[@NotUnique661]

Every Vegan must watch this!!!

[@behemoth5344]

Vegan here, and I find Mancuso very interesting, so here's my Like ;)

[@nobodyknowsanything3906]

Is it just me or is this a VERY quiet video? (I've got all my volume controls maxed)

[@DamienHorta1289]

its very quiet, im using headset and its all maxed, still hear it to low

[@xxMrBaldyxx]

the intro sound was normal volume, but when the talk begins in got very quiet

[@stevieray667]

Robin HAHAHAHHAHAHA

[@lilaclizard4504]

yup very quiet after intro, then blasting for input from others within video & also massively increases volume just before it ends. Fascinating content, but overall very low quality presentation imo

[@natureknows2850]

@@lilaclizard4504 Blame the vegan audio engineer who doesn't want you to hear the truth.

[@AntonioCampos-qh5jd]

Wish the volume was higher

[@Romans_116]

Im sure someone has stated this before, "We are so disconnected"...

[@williamthegamer9899]

I love how everyone in the comment section is bitching around on this topic. We are living in a ''Game''-World, desperately trying to understand it, but we forget that our purpose is to live in peace and harmony with our surroundings and not understanding it. Everything in this world has a conciousness ... Even your own thoughts ... So be aware of it and contine on LIVING :)

[@tonk4824]

William The Gamer eh I like spending my life understanding new things but also other hobbies science is live science is life

[@danielmacoveiciuc]

„but we forget that our purpose is to live in peace and harmony with our surroundings and not understanding it.!”

[@davidwillis5016]

Thanks

[@michaelgodfrey9491]

Great video , but the sound is too low

[@stancity5709]

Wonderful speech👌

[@aiagorreta]

uau!!!!!, amazing!!!!

[@MasterplantsHQ]

Thanks for a great Talk Mancuso. Give us a call!

[@Sophieuzca]

Namasté!

[@Alex-444x94]

+Sofia Engeli Ojeda no.

[@MrSingh1150]

Wanna be indian get out of here

[@adityashukla2635]

@@MrSingh1150 sick mentality you have!

[@MrSingh1150]

@@adityashukla2635 she has no idea what that word even means. Just says it because she feels special.

[@adityashukla2635]

@@MrSingh1150 Everyone knows that namaste is used as greetings. Like konichiwa is a form of greeting in Japan. Or Hello or Ola or Bonjour We live in a globalisation era.

[@habibadeyaa6689]

I loved the professor so much 💙

[@MikeFeatherston0700]

they grow and evolve.

[@HeduAI]

This is such an amazing talk!!!

[@Soint]

Thank you for this post. What about animals feeling pain or suffering?

[@mickeyc2137]

everyone already knows that they do thats common knowledge. but with plants, hardly anyone knows this

[@aishac6790]

Yes, plants feel pain.

[@singh163]

Amazing video!!! Wonderfully presented and explained Sir😇

[@Chalif5]

lol! I listened with headphones and it was fine. Why are people so dramatic?

[@Chalif5]

Also the fact that nonvegans think they can justify killing and torturing animals with complex nervous systems based on his argument is sad and pathetic.

[@DarkRenaissance2012]

Ive always said, the lower the consciousness level of a living thing, the more acceptable it is to consume it... Most all primitive/ancient tribes believed plants had a consciousness, and that animals had more connection to the conscious flow, and therefor deserved higher veneration when being sacrificed for food ~

[@GilgameshApproves]

+DarkRenaissance2012 i`d say both need the same degree of gratitude.

[@DarkRenaissance2012]

***** Somehow I doubt you give a horse the same gratitude you give a flower, which might be picked just to observe, before cast aside ;)

[@GilgameshApproves]

DarkRenaissance2012 i don`t pick flowers for no good use. that`s just me tho

[@TheCASimone]

A flower is to a plant, as a hair strand is to a mammal. Unless someone is ruthlessly ripping out a plant's root system out, it is not entirely the same. Even more so so dispensable, due to the short life span of a bloom. The flower is very much like a plant's offering to the world, it says take me, spread these seeds and ensure my lineage.

[@TheCASimone]

If I was a rose bush with 30 other sexual organs to spare, I would not care.

[@blueMoon0885]

Do trees help flowers smell better by taking nutrients from ground

[@JwalinBhatt]

But as per this definition of consciousness, a simple hybird sensor which is equipped with everything we can measure so far (electric, magnetic, gravitation fields, orientation, position, luminousity, pressure,...) would be the most conscious device.

[@daisybackstar]

Hello, my name is Daisy, I am not human, I'm just a plant, I was created in a scientific laboratory. I changed my shape to live among humans as a normal girl, but in fact I am an alien plant.

[@JwalinBhatt]

@@daisybackstar Hi Daisy, I am curious to know more about you :) Why would you say you are an alien, when you were created in a lab on earth?

[@daisybackstar]

I was not created in a laboratory on Earth, I was created in a laboratory in the Galaxy M-100. I am a species originary from the planet Cloris in the star Alpha Follium - alpha star in the constellation of the Greater Leaf @@JwalinBhatt

[@JwalinBhatt]

@@daisybackstar what about your feelings? Do you feel drawn to the flora and fauna on earth? Or do you get attracted to humans?

[@daisybackstar]

I live among humans, I was adopted by a human family, but I'm looking for my origins among plants, I really want plants and humans to become friends. @@JwalinBhatt

[@healthesoils]

✨✨✨ This is so exciting! I love this🙏thank you!🌿

[@habibadeyaa6689]

The video is amazing !💓💓

[@bertrandolf9733]

Hey TED, some basic audio processing if the recording was too low would be appropriate. Takes 5 minutes to do it really well ) Sorry and thanks!

[@Rezwolf]

CONSCIOUSNESS IS

[@GrowRaws]

Sei il numero 1

[@JayanTS]

Great talk. Wonderful information. If they could move as like other animals definitely, they would have a brain and other organs. I have read somewhere that they can identify their beloved human friends. Is that possible? Can someone answer me!

[@tanyawales5445]

Trees store information in their roots and can communicate with other trees in a forest sharing resources. Sounds like a brain with a neural net to me! Plants are just different than animals. Plants can smell and taste through their leaves and roots. Plants can tell the difference between light and dark so they have primitive vision. Plants definitely respond to people and can tell if you mean to harm them. They can feel fear so they are self aware enough to have the will to live. Plants provide us with oxygen, fuel and food. What more do you expect of them than that?

[@aishac6790]

Yes plants can communicate with us. They can feel our presence and love. I also can pick up their consciousness through telepathy. Even the plants that we label as weeds and try to kill, they are conscious and they have medicinal uses. They have feelings.

[@barbrice721]

Yes. Two plants were put in a room. One man feed and watered and talked to them. Another guy would ignore or scream or pull a leaf. These plants were attached to a lie detector machine. When the good guy came in all was normal when the bad guy came in both machines reacted. Then one day the bad guy destroyed one plant the machines went off the scale. The good guy put the surving plant in a dark room. The machine stayed calm. When the mean man entered the dark room the machine went off the scale. The plant recognized danger in the dark.

[@suddonlee4326]

Why did he cut out when the plant on the right connnected with the one on the left.

[@theadventurousallotmenteer6582]

As plants identify kin, I wonder what the effect of a cutting (replication) is on a cutting of the same plant with the same genetic makeup.. are they aware they are of the same genetic make up and consider the other plant to be itself, or does it consider the other plant to be its kin or even competitor? questions!

[@jeffreymailly9822]

I would love to see another version of this testing an organic native plant with GMO's.

[@chastitywhiterose]

I am sad for the slug.

[@SC-vb2ui]

Amore mio💗🎼 Plants 💚🌈

[@lewistricker8058]

cucciola bella

[@Uthael_Kileanea]

"We don't have much time" was repeated several times. I watched this on 1.4x speed. Spent 12 minutes for a 20min video. Send a message to Stefano Mancuso: You can fit 60% more talking in that presentation and it will still not be too fast.

[@moclcare]

forgot to turn the mic on?

[@robertorosati53]

Very interesting

[@ryanvillanueva1841]

The audio here REALLY needs to be turned up.

[@lyomadishny]

Amazing!!! Thanks a million for the wonderful research!

[@rob._.]

I've seen a video of mythbusters that the plant could sense intentions

[@ishana6038]

was it busted?

[@jodie672]

Has anyone seen David Attenboroughs “ The Green Planet” ? Backs up this video

[@SofiasBio]

YES!

[@anavonrebeur6121]

So glad I tamed ny mimosa. I thought she didnt worked. But it never shut her leaves because she was never afraid of me

[@seanmichaels8060]

The volume is so quiet. If I was watching this on my desktop I could turn up my speakers but I'm watching on my tablet. It needs to be louder.

[@lunalucy1114]

Amazing speech, thank you so much for uploading!

[@lamedvav]

Seems to be erroneously including fungi as a plant? P.S. Sound is way too low, cannot hear..

[@prettyprudent5779]

As research on the intelligence, capabilities and sentience of plants progresses...we will come to a place where the respect for plants as Sensitive Living Beings will be Essential. 🌱 🌳 -

[@wownewstome6123]

Careful with earbuds. When the Michio Kaku part plays, IT WILL BLOW OUT YOUR EARDRUMS !!! 3xs, as I recall.

[@bertrandolf9733]

Please reupload

[@cesarcdx]

you don't even have audio consciousness.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Plant Inaudibility

[@naturalamerican9238]

I plant hear you.......

[@seannootherway]

I'm planting too grasp your growth

[@karencontestabile6125]

volume, please...

[@arifmhmd6253]

Someone teach him the difference between *responding* and *reacting*

[@agentxyz]

plants talk but you can't hear them

[@TheSunLights]

Top professor!

[@Sjsime827]

A vegan's worst nightmare

[@saintearth]

I'm a vegan. The video isn't a problem or nightmare. The problem is a corrupted humanity.

[@saintearth]

More like multinational corporations with in the military industrial complex, the health industry, the food industry, ect, willing to damage the world for profit.

[@lilaclizard4504]

saintⓋearth, Wow a Vegan I can genuinely deeply respect! I think veganism has become a religion. Religions are known to have a minority of very vocal followers spouting extreme views & desperately trying to convert the world (most of the time I think a lot of it is about trying to convince themselves they've made the right choice). Seems that this type of attitude is also the most prevalent from Vegans on internet forums, really nice to encounter someone who seems to be beyond the silly & genuinely interested in the world & knowledge. I mean it's only 2 comments, I could be wrong, probably is wrong to assume from so little info, but it's just so nice not to be hit by an immediate uneducated "the science is wrong" & I totally agree with you saint, I mean even on a really super basic & non-controversially fixable level, why do we have things like "cosmetic standards" resulting in up to 50% of fruit & veg grown in the first world being destroyed before leaving the farm?

[@abcitiseasyasonetwothree3066]

S B they are intelligent, but not sentient. Only morons dont understand the difference between those two. /i eat meat

[@MrKohlenstoff]

What people don't realize, is that plants feeling pain or being conscious would be a reason *for* veganism, not against it. Animals have to eat. What do they eat? Plants. And much more than we do. If plants can feel, eating animal products is by far the worst action to take as it causes more harm, by orders of magnitude.

[@blueMoon0885]

What can you do to help a tree become conscious

[@blueMoon0885]

The root deep in the ground gripping dirt

[@giovaza8052]

Does anybody know the source of "99.7 of biomass is made by plants" at 2:36

[@iordanneDiogeneslucas]

If by plants, you mean use photosynthesis, im surprised it would be that low.

[@igspal]

What about the FRUIT of plants...do THEY have emotions/conscience??? PLEASE do these experiments with FRUIT!!!

[@MintTree117]

I think the fruit are more like organs of a plant. But I dont know.

[@omk573]

Fruit are designed to be eaten so they can spread there seeds so if the fruit has a conscience it probably wants to be eaten

[@alayhaferron1972]

igspal fruits are ovaries of a plant

[@malakiatobias7955]

@@omk573 but not be broken down or crushed

[@piretiris8223]

@@omk573 but people kinda ruined it

[@HobbiesRfun]

So this means carrots, tomatoes, and spinach are my friends, not my salad?

[@jodynichols1510]

They justified this on myth busters it’s true they can read our minds think about that 👀👀👀

[@Madness-1a]

For our evolution it was super important to know about plants, you are wrong Mr Mancuso. It was not just hunting. The knowledge of plants was essential to cure different diseases and common pain. At the time the knowledge of your environment was what keep you alive, including plants since most where not farmers until far late. We used to be healthy and wise. There is a non perception of plants by some people. the people who rule. If they would make it different, including building food forests and permaculture gardens all around instead of more parking lots, that would be helpful.

[@RSEFX]

YIKES, kinda jarring sound mix-up! But very interesting talk.

[@mehrangerami187]

It would have been nice to know those who were asked the question "what do you see?" if they were meat eaters or vegans. I would have loved to see the considerate individuals who love plants and eat them for their own survival would at least acknowledge and appreciate the beauty that was presented in all four slides. 09/20/2023 shame.

[@daisybackstar]

I live among humans, they think I'm a normal girl, but in fact I'm an alien plant, I'm imitating the human form, but in fact I'm a plant.

[@barasko]

very low sound. it is a pity!

[@邓梓薇]

What should we eat next

[@kkibela]

We are supposed to eat the fruit that plant life produces and if we do need leaves etc, we ask .. the whole plant doesnt have to die.. its the waste that os obscene. using wood for sugar??

[@mehrangerami187]

Thank you TedX for such an interesting guest about plants and feelings/consciousness. I hope the vegetarians and vegans will think a bit more about their diet and the plant's feelings as they cut a fresh cut leaf of lettuce and bite into it while it is still alive as they look down on carnivorous people who at least kill the animal before they eat it regardless of cooked or raw. Something to think about. 08/20/2022

[@rupert909]

Please tell me you understand that a cow eats more plants than a human does, right?

[@blueMoon0885]

Can a tree understand a different plant through the connection of roots

[@blueMoon0885]

The tree Knowing a feeling only the plant could feel