Great article :) I just wanted to reply because I am currently reading The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart and in it there are experiments which seem to prove that plants not only respond to stress, they respond to human thoughts and other sentient beings emotional reactions.

So they KNOW what is going on around them, even to the point where they can identify different individual people and animals, who spend time with or around them.

Does that mean they can feel pain? I highly doubt it. Would they not have evolved some form of mechanism by now, which protects them better, prevent them from being eaten or harmed?

I don't profess to know anything in depth on this subject (I'm no scientist!) but I' certainly open to opinion on this :)