A New Food Ethics Quandary: If Plants Are Sentient Enough To Communicate, Is It Okay To Eat Them?

A team of Israeli researchers found “that a pea plant subjected to drought conditions communicated its stress to other such plants, with which it shared its soil” – and those plants responded. “Is it morally permissible to submit to total instrumentalization living beings that, though they do not have a central nervous system, are capable of basic learning and communication?”