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I felt a bit uncomfortable seeing carrots with their tops lopped off in a totally mechanical manner on a conveyor belt, or beetroots boiled alive before their corpses were pushed through razor-sharp blades to slice them up, or corn ripped off their husks, or tomatoes... tomatoes... oh man, I feel nauseous, I think I'm going to throw up.

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You joke, but plants are alive and have feelings, just like everything else that is alive. They have the ability to communicate using ultrasound and they can pick up your brainwaves and respond to them.

There's a plant that can change the shape it grows its leaf to match what other plant is around them - that includes copying artificial plants. So it has to be possible for a plant to "see".

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