(NRO) – Periodically, the mainstream media focus on advocacy for the idea that plants are intelligent and/or moral beings.
For example, the New York Times ran a column some years back asserting that peas are persons. Why? Pea plants release chemicals in the soil that alert other pea plants of drought conditions.
And then there was that time a Times science writer claimed that plants are the “ethical autotrophs here, the ones that wrest their meals from the sun.” CONTINUE