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It is a fact, which some clairvoyants have observed and which scientific researches by the late Sir J. Bose in Bengal and Cleve Backster using polygraph technique in New York have confirmed, that plants feel and that they have intelligent responses which on a human level would be emotional. This has in fact been advanced as a defense of meat-eating and against those practising meat avoidance. My reply is that the plant form is not so sensitive as the animal form, lacking so highly developed a nerve system. It suffers--but less.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3 : Diet > # 63