Watch This When You're High - Scientists Confirmed Plants Can Talk To Each Other

Yahoo News - A group of Japanese scientists has successfully filmed plants communicating and warning others about potential dangers in real-time, making a breakthrough in an observation first documented in the early 1980s.

What they observed: Published in the journal Nature Communications in October 2023, the research team, led by molecular biologist Masatsugu Toyota from Japan's Saitama University, successfully captured undamaged plants sending defense responses to nearby plants after sensing volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are produced by other plants in response to mechanical damages or insect attacks.

The team, which included Yuri Aratani, a Ph.D. student at the university, and Takuya Uemura, a postdoctoral researcher, attached an air pump to a container filled with leaves and caterpillars and to another chamber containing Arabidopsis thaliana, a common weed from the mustard family. The Arabidopsis was genetically modified to make their cells fluoresce green after detecting calcium ions, which serve as stress messengers. The team then used a fluorescence microscope to monitor the signals the undamaged plants released after receiving VOCs from the damaged leaves.

This is pretty crazy. Maybe the writers of Avatar were onto something? 

So if the plants are all alive and conscious to the point they can warn each other of danger, and the animals are conscious, what the hell are we humans, top of the food chain, supposed to eat without feeling bad?

Interested to see how the vegans figure this one out.

Keep the suggestions coming. Keep them classy. No butt stuff.