5. Plants have feelings too!
Think you are saving a living being's feelings by choosing to go vegan? Think again!
Via Business Insider: "Vegetarians and vegans pay heed: New research shows plants know when they're being eaten. And they don't like it...That plants possess an intelligence is not new knowledge, but according to Modern Farmer, a new study from the University of Missouri shows plants can sense when they are being eaten and send out defense mechanisms to try to stop it from happening."
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