I once listened to a radio program, 20 or more years ago, that had some nutcase who said all flora had feeling. He'd used some special taping technique, he said, to tape the sound of vegetables being pulled from the ground or cut. He played a carrot being pulled from the dirt - it sounded like a sort of screaming wail. He said he didn't want to play the sound of a cabbage being cut as he felt it would disturb the listeners too much
Poor sod, (pun intended). He really believed it. The DJ could hardly keep back the giggling. I just laughed & shook my head.