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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (25 children)

Eat fruits, the plants give those to you specifically to eat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (24 children)

In the same way that cultists give human sacrifices to Cthulhu specifically to eat.

I'm pretty sure the fruits are screaming too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (22 children)

The whole deal is that we get to eat the fruit, and in return we provide the seeds within with a nice nitrogen-rich deposition nice and far from the parent plant.

It's not a death cult, it's a sex cult. The fruits might be screaming, but not in pain