Screaming tomatoes
the gasping cries of turnips
Do plants have feelings?
A silly Haiku today. I was reading the latest issue of Fortean Times and an article speculating (in that amusingly sceptical way only the Fortean Times pulls off) whether plants have a nervous system / feel pain caught my eye. (written by David Hambling)
The fact that L.Ron Hubbard performed (seemingly serious) experiments on tomatoes to ‘prove’ this seemed utterly bizarre. The reference to an interview Alan Whicker conducted with him asking whether he considered it cruel to prune roses also made me laugh. However it also covered the history of the research, from the work of Darwin too, who later in life worked in this very field. This magazine is gold. A mine of fun facts on strange phenomena and, screaming tomatoes aside, serious research thrown in too. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
Pic from Fortean Times article.
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