Maybe not so much feel pain, as I was wrong in saying that, but they can tell when they are being eaten/"under attack" and do respond defensively.
[url=http://gizmodo.com/nice-try-vegans-plants-can-actually-hear-themselves-b-1599749162]Here is what I think to be a better article since it goes over the actual experiment.[/url]
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Your choice of words is rather bamboozling. An organism's biological reaction does not imply the organism itself can "tell" anything. You are implying a form of awareness similar to consciousness in humans and animals. And as I said, this does not entail any of the ethical imperatives we have toward animals be extended to plants.