We water plants and hastily expect fruits ignoring their emotional identity. When they fail, we blame climate change- writes Jaihoon.
I heard the plants
Say in the morn,
When approached
In the early dawn:
“Who is this guest
We have today?
Who has come
To water us today?
We haven’t seen you of late;
Your face, no more in our fate.
You complain:
We bear no fruits;
You curse:
The skies, our roots.
Those of your old ones
Gave us more than drops;
They held us close
To their hearts.
They cared for us
As their own kids.
Our fruits were the gifts
For their love;
We had a share
When they showed love.
Today you simply feed, but
Not a word of love heard.
But wait!
We now hear from you a name,
Our fathers rehearsed the same.
What are those soothing words?
Music to our dancing souls.
We heard the stars whispering,
Nightingale with its murmuring.
That name is crowned with Meem;
We throb hearing that name.
The heart: Yes, we have too,
Indeed, we have feelings true.
2010. Edit 2024.
Science
Researchers from Michigan State University have discovered that plants have a rudimentary nerve structure, which allows them to feel pain. According to the peer-reviewed journal Plant Physiology, plants are capable of identifying danger, signaling that danger to other plants and marshaling defenses against perceived threats. According to botanist Bill Williams of the Helvetica Institute, “plants not only seem to be aware and to feel pain, they can even communicate.” This research has prompted the Swiss government to pass the first-ever Plant Bill of Rights. It concludes that plants have moral and legal protections, and Swiss citizens have to treat them appropriately. The Penn State Vegetarians Club would do well to investigate this data before claiming to be superior to those of us who do not subscribe to the idea that eating meat is morally wrong. – Stephen Johnson, http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/12/09/recent_studies_have_proven_pla.aspx
One of the first to research the concept was the Indian scientist Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, who began to conduct experiments on plants in the year 1900. He found that every plant and every part of a plant appeared to have a sensitive nervous system and responded to shock by a spasm just as an animal muscle does. One visitor to his laboratory, the vegetarian playwright George Bernard Shaw, was intensely disturbed upon witnessing a demonstration in which a cabbage had violent convulsions as it boiled to death.[2] Bose found that the effect of manures, drugs, and poisons could be determined within minutes, providing plant control with a new precision. In addition, Bose found that plants grew more quickly amidst pleasant music and more slowly amidst loud noise or harsh sounds. He also claimed that plants can “feel pain, understand affection etc.,” from the analysis of the nature of variation of the cell membrane potential of plants, under different circumstances. According to him, a plant treated with care and affection gives out a different vibration compared to a plant subjected to torture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(paranormal)
