Respect plants, say ethicists

Herald Sun ^ | 15 April 2008

[Aussie Dasher]

PLANTS deserve respect, a group of Swiss experts says, arguing that killing them arbitrarily is morally wrong - except when it comes to saving humans or maybe picking petals off a daisy.

In a report on "the dignity of the creature in the plant world", the federal Ethics Committee on non-human Gene Technology condemned the decapitation of flowers without reason, among other sins.

Still, commission member Bernard Baertsche suggested the body weighed such cruel acts on a case by case basis, noting "the simple pleasure of picking the petals off a daisy might suffice as a reason".

Similarly "all action that involves plants in the aim to conserve the human species is morally justified,'' the commission, tasked to offer an ethical take on all areas of biotechnology and genetic engineering, said in its report.

[Aussie Dasher]

Just how many HUMAN babies are killed by abortion each year? The world IS going mad!

[nickcarraway]

The same plants that are destroying the planet by giving off CO2?

[Dr.Zoidberg]

That's exactly what I was going to say.

These “ethicists” are some of the most unethical monsters on the face of the earth.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

The awful scene in one version of “Frankenstein” is thus parodized.

Not just one little girl shredded like the picking of a daisy, but tens of millions annually.

[aquila48]

Ah, vegans thought they had the higher moral ground... It won’t be long that that exhalted place will be claimed by dirt and mineral eaters.

[kingattax]

is it ok for vegetarians to eat animal crackers ?

[aquila48]

Must be tough to be a comedian nowdays... how do you top this parody!!

[lastchance]

Gee I will give this serious consideration. Ok times up. These guys are nuts.

[robomatik]

don’t plants absorbe co2?

[dalereed]

Any plant in the wrong place is called a weed, something to be ripped out!

[DGHoodini]

Talk about Entropy Incarnate!
Do you think these people even have any sexual organs?
Or are they all androgynous biological sports?

[ThomasThomas]

I guess if Bass fishing says “CATCH AND RELEASE”

Could we then conclude that “ PLUCK AND GRAFT “IS OK

The next step would be the “SHOOT AND STICTH”

[I see my hands]

"he simple pleasure of picking the petals off a daisy might suffice as a reason"

An ethical dilemma arises for campers when a strong and broad leaf is needed for personal hygiene. On the one hand using the leaf is utilitarian and not capricious. On the other hand.. Oh, he indignity!

[SeaWolf]

As I said before, to be an liberal/progressive/environmentalist requires the IQ of a juvenile Kumquat and the useless zealotry of a hound baying at the moon.

[Gator113]

LMAO

[nickcarraway]

G.K. Chesterton wrote about the humorously about 100 years ago.

[xp38]

What about respecting dirt and minerals (aka rocks)?

[Amos the Prophet]

No one has even mentioned air and water. How dare we breath and drink capriciously?
Sweetbay supermarket reminds us that shopping carts have feelings. How much more do air and water have sensitivities that are trammeled every moment of their lives.
Al Gore to the rescue. Teach us how to stop breathing and drinking, Al. We want to be sensitive to Gaea.

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[Mount Athos]

Every year, millions and millions of tomatoes are torn SCREAMING from their mother earth. Stop the ongoing atrocity against tomatoes, join the plant liberation front.

[paudio]

This is similar argument offered by (some) vegetarians why we shouldn’t eat animals. On philosophical ground, I don’t really see any difference.

[djf]

During the day.

At night, when there is no light, plants use oxygen just like all other lifeforms.

[Smokin' Joe]

Does this mean I can quit mowing the lawn??

[muir_redwoods]

Plants use CO2 during their life and release it after they die and rot

[mkleesma]

“the dignity of the creature in the plant world”

Oh jeez.

Ya know, a generation ago, this would have been rich enough in its absurdity to be a Monty Python sketch.

These morons are serious.

It truly is the end of Western Civilization.

[sergeantdave]

The Ameba Liberation Army is not amused.

Euglena lot of knowledge by talking to one-cell plants or animals

[G.Mason]

Green plants = PHOTOSYNTHESIS

PHOTOSYNTHESIS -- a function or activity of green plants--is the production of sugar and pure oxygen from light, water, and air.

[Fresh Wind]

Does this mean mowing my lawn is morally wrong?

[girlangler]

LOL ping.

[aruanan]

The same plants that are destroying the planet by giving off CO2?

Are you being as sarcastic as the article?

[MaryFromMichigan]

Every year, millions and millions of tomatoes are torn SCREAMING from their mother earth.

Ah, but isn't it better to end their painful existence as mindless vegetables?

[SouthWall]

Well surely you wouldn’t eat plants either !
Join: Plants Have All Rights Too, (PHART)
donate here.
/s

[RoadTest]

Oh, brother. Now the NWO has a whole new realm to destroy America in.

[Grammy]

Words fail me.

Literally.

Everything I might say is so sarcastic or rude as to get me banned, so I will just close my mouth and pray they don’t come here.

[Malsua]

Tool (the band) did a weird song right along these lines.

It was called Disgustipated.

---

And the angel of the Lord came unto me,
snatching me up from my
place of slumber,
and took me on high,
and higher still until we
moved in the spaces betwixt the air itself.
and he bore me unto a
vast farmland of our own midwest,
and as we descended cries of
impending doom rose from the soil.
one thousand, nay, a million
voices full of fear.
and terror possessed me then.
and I begged,

“Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?”
And the angel said unto me,
“These are the cries of the carrots,
the cries of the carrots.
You see, reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day
and to them it is the holocaust.”
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat
like the tears of one millions terrified brothers
and roared,
“Hear me now,
I have seen the light,
they have a consciousness,
they have a life,
they have a soul.
damn you!
let the rabbits wear glasses,
save our brothers...can I get an amen?
can I get a hallelujah? thank you, Jesus.

[jazusamo]

LOL!

This reminds me of the 1960’s? when there was a movement by fruitcakes, hippies, flower children (don’t recall who) that were trying to convince everyone that plants had nervous systems therefore they shouldn’t they killed or eaten because it was torture, or some such lame thing.

[reformedliberal]

Google “endangered soils” and “soil diversity”. They already have that covered.

[CrappieLuck]

I committed ethnic cleansing this weekend. I sprayed weed killer on the crab grass and mowed my lawn.

Oh, the guilt......

[Mr. Jeeves]

Be kind to plants. Eat meat. ;)

[aquila48]

“What about respecting dirt and minerals (aka rocks)?”

That’ll come in about 20 years...

[gardengirl]

Second that! LOL

I hate to throw out plants, and I don’t want to know what the kids are going to do to them in their science experiments, but, jeez! Get a life already!