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Re:Tyson Foods CEO: The Future of Food Might Be Meatless by stagbeetle on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @10:06PM (#13817530)
Plants can experience pain and do, in-fact, communicate with other plants, animals, and fungi.
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Re:Tyson Foods CEO: The Future of Food Might Be Meatless by mythrwy on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @12:48AM (#13818232)
Doesn't pain require having nerves?
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Re:Tyson Foods CEO: The Future of Food Might Be Meatless by stagbeetle on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @08:49AM (#13820176)
No. Plants do have a nerve-like (similar, but not the same) structures that send out electric signals.
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