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Mobile phones are dangerous for vegetables

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Stressed tomato – and a potential future victim.

French scientists have made an important discovery.

Researchers at the Clermont-Ferrand university have determined that tomatoes, when exposed to the magnetic waves of mobile phones, get stressed within ten minutes. They start secreting a molecule, which usually only occurs when they get damaged.

The question is now: do humans have anything in common with vegetables, and — if so — do mobile telephones contribute to the stress level of the 48 million French who have one?

Source (in French)