Originally Posted by
atiguhya padma
I once read somewhere in a book by Lyall Watson (probably one of the Supernature books), that a test had been performed which suggested that plants may feel something like pain. Lyall Watson was so disturbed by these tests, that he gave up mowing his lawn!! Apparently, some businessman in New York City was playing around with an EEG machine strapped to a potted plant, and when he accidentally poured some of his hot coffee onto the plant, the EEG went berserk. He did some further tests that convinced him that plants do in fact have some form of suffering.
Interestingly, Gandhi refused to eat vegetables, restricting himself to a diet of fruits and nuts. He reasoned that fruits and nuts were made to be consumed, indeed the act of consumption propagates the plants from which they come. Its rather a sad life when the most ethical diet is a peach and a peanut!
