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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I do believe that plants can feel, as in touch.  However, complex 
emotions?? Humility?  I can see pain, and what you could call happiness 
or a sense of well-being, but humility?  That would imply that plants 
have pride, an ego...so I draw the line there..
This is a good example of what I was referring to with Liberalism gone
amok...what a waste of money and brainpower, when there are so many 
other problems in the world.

Bev

bob ford wrote:

> OCTOBER 10, 2008

> Who Is to Say Flora Don't Have Feelings? Figuring Out What Wheat
> Would Want

> »ZURICH -- For years, Swiss scientists have blithely created
> genetically modified rice, corn and apples. But did they ever stop to
> consider just how humiliating such experiments may be to plants?
>
> That's a question they must now ask. Last spring, this small Alpine
> nation began mandating that geneticists conduct their research
> without trampling on a plant's dignity.


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