screaming vegetables

May 8, 2002

Hello,

In one Russian speaking forum I was pointed to article entitled

" Cucumbers feel pain " , article is here:

It starts with " Times found out that vegetables can feel "

They wrote about discovery made by scientists from Bonn University.

And after this they write about feeling vegetables and many anti

ethical-vegetarian/vegan things. (they specially mention that after

this discovery there is no sense in being ethical vegetarian)

I've tried to find English version of this article on bbc.co.uk, but

was unsuccessful, it's when I started to be really suspicious about

this article.

I found main article which was source for Russian BBC article:

Here they write that vegetable when damaged start emitting some sorts

of sounds. But there is not a word " feel " in this article.

I've continued my investigation, and found e-mail of Doctor Frank

Kuhnemann of Bonn University (f.kuehnemann) and site

of this experiment:

But it's in German language.

I will send e-mail to people from http://peta.de and http://vegan.de

with request to investigate this. I've already send e-mail to Doctor

Frank Kuhnemann, but I'm still waiting for response.

Also I'm looking for contacts with English vegetarian/vegan societies,

these societies should force BBC to put disclaimer to that article in

Russian.

What also could be done about it?

Please CC to my e-mail address, I don't always have time to read

forums. Thank you in advance.

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Best regards,

vegan

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