"Can you still hear the asparagus screaming, Clarice?"
Posted on 05/13/2008 12:52:06 PM PDT by AngieGal
You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the "dignity" of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called "plant rights" is being seriously debated.
A few years ago the Swiss added to their national constitution a provision requiring "account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms." No one knew exactly what it meant, so they asked the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology to figure it out. The resulting report, "The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants," is enough to short circuit the brain.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Unborn babies can be killed on a whim, but we have to really think twice before killing a plant. I'm horrified!
Left unsaid at this point is how we can continue to assist in the destruction of the AIDS virus worldwide. As a living, mutating organism, it too must have some inherent value - as must all pathogens.
This isn’t all bad. At least I can use it against vegetarians when they cry about my steak.
We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset.
PETAphiles don’t want us to eat meat of any form (not even eggs), and now these yahoos want to stop us from eating vegetables of any sort. WTH are we supposed to eat?
A slaughtered several asparagus spears this morning. If I hadn’t done it the neighbor would have.
Psh, be nice to the Marxists and Socialists. They have feelings too! /s
OMIGOSH I just pulled some weeds. I guess I’m going to the Hague.
This article supports my theory that there are people too stupid in the world to survive.
LOL
That would make a great tag line.
Yes indeed, bacterial rights have been long ignored. I witnessed strains of ebola, MRSA and drug-resistant TB weeping in despair just the other day.
That makes me a mass murderer in the eyes of the dandelion police! I’d better burn the evidence!
I hope you don’t mind, but your response was too good not to steal for a tag for a while...
This does not change my plans for a dandelion genocide this summer.
Or those f***ing yellow jackets.
Is that akin to going to hell? Probably is similar....
"Can you still hear the asparagus steaming, Clarice?"
Go for it. Might as well have all the laughs while we can before the inmates take over the asylum.
The question I have is: Will women eventually be able to marry a cucumber?
What’ll the pot-heads smoke now? That’s like the conundrum of what to do if one endangered species is killing another one. I don’t know how these radical libs can get through life obsessively worrying about every little thing. Glad I ain’t one.
Come get me socialist, environmentalist jerks, I will be waiting for you!
“We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset.”
It might even get someone elected president.
Long live Chauncey Gardner....
I'm going to murder a whole field FULL of "flora" tomorrow afternoon, with 2-4D!
Hahahahahahahaha!!!
Ain't that the freakin' truth.
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Think I'll make a beef kabob on the grill. That way I can offend PETA, the Plant Protection League, and use up all my carbon credits for the decade.
Yeah, but doctor-assisted suicide is legal there. A friend of mine did that there with his terminally ill mother.
If our idiot liberal congress adopts this, does it mean I don’t have to cut my lawn any longer?
Soylent Green ... the food that doesn't cry.
Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green Day.
I was glad to hear it, but it looks like that’s changed...
from Wikipedia:
Abortion in Switzerland is legal during the first trimester, upon condition of counseling, for women who state that they are in distress. It is also legal with medical indications – threat of severe physical or psychological damage to the mother – at any later time.”
“Up until 2002, abortion was – technically – legally available in Switzerland only with restrictive medical indications. A constitutional amendment to legalise abortion in the first trimester was narrowly defeated in a popular referendum in 1977. However, in 1978 and 1985, initiatives for constitutional amendments aiming at making abortion harder to obtain were also defeated by a wide margin at the ballot box.”
I think it was the Swiss who started the whole “Spanking is Child abuse” BS. Now it’s everywhere. Plants rights may follow.
No, it’s not illegal there. They recently changed their more restrictive laws to allow for first trimester abortion at will. After that you have to show a medical “emergency” or “distress.”
....folks I used to scoff at this kind of nonsense...now I stop and read it...I had a little moment of clarity when my attorney daughter told me that the fastest growing area of law taught in law schools is:...are you ready for this?...Animal Rights Law!!....I don’t have to tell Freepers where this is heading....if PETA and others have their way we’ll never eat another steak....so it comes as no surprise that “plant rights” are in the on-deck circle.
Are they going to prosecute all cows for eating hay?
A little more from Wiki:
The criminal prohibition on nonindicated abortions essentially ceased to be enforced towards the turn of the 20th century. Abortions could be easily obtained through the cooperation of physicians, especially in the more urban cantons. In 1995, the Swiss Federal Assembly enacted an amendment to the penal code providing for the first-trimester-rule as outlined above.
Conservative parties and interest groups collected the 50,000 voters’ signatures required to force a popular referendum on the amendment. The vote was held on 2 June 2002, with 72.2% of Swiss voters supporting the change in law.
Legal abortions are now covered by the mandatory health care insurance scheme. Insured women cannot opt out from this coverage.
Statistics
In 2005, 15% of all pregnancies in Switzerland were terminated by abortion.
This is satire, right? Has to be.
I’m glad to read this. Now I won’t have to mow the grass.
I used to work on a vegetable farm and you would not believe the inhumane ways in which the plants were treated.
They were left outside with no shelter. When it rained, they got wet. On hot days they suffered from dehydration, with little or no shade to be had. They were forced to stay outside in the field under even the hottest mid-day sun. And they were planted in DIRT. Can you believe it? DIRT!
Then, when these long suffering plants finally bore fruit, their young off-spring were RIPPED from their vines with never so much as a thank you. I don’t even want to think about the grisly fate that faced these poor vegetables after they were packed together like sardines in bushel baskets and hauled to market in unventilated trucks.
I’m told that many of them were skinned alive, cooked and eaten. Other vegetables, depending on their variety were not even KILLED before being devoured by humans.
RAW peaches. RAW lettuce. RAW tomatoes. The list of atrocity’s goes on and on. Why, one might even be able to go so far as to call it GENOCIDE.
I could only take SO much, though. Eventually, the things I was being asked to do (”pick” squash; “cut” melons; “harvest” sweet corn) sickened me to the point where I knew I had to get away for the sake of my immortal soul. So I went to college and became an engineer, leaving the life of a vegetable slave trader behind.
That was more than 20 years ago, but even to this day I’m still haunted by nightmares of those poor, helpless vegetables.
I only hope that God can forgive me for the part I took in this reprehensible trade.
No, but Post #39 is.
Simpson’s quote:
“I’m a level 5 Vegan. I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow”.
Yep, I bet next they’re going to refer it to The Hague, to see if they can get bleach declared a war crime enormity, an evil WMD.
CHOPPING BROCCOLI
There’s a lady I know
If I didn’t know her
She’d be the lady I didn’t know.
And my lady, she went downtown
She bought some broccoli
She brought it home.
She’s chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli
She’s chopping broccoli
She’s chopping broccoli
She’s chop.. ooh!
She’s chopping broccola-ah-ie!
“What are we supposed to eat?”
If you read the whole article, you would have seen the example where the farmer mowed a field to feed his cattle, which was OK morally, but lopped the head off some flowers on his way home, which was morally questionable. One year I was seeing the cherry blossoms in Washington, DC, and some people were picking little sprigs of flowers to take home. Then I saw someone just tearing branches off and dropping them and I wanted to punch that person in the nose. It was a purely instinctive gut reaction. Waste is wrong.
Sorry, I must have accidentally searched using asparagus as a keyword instead of in the title, like I meant to.
At least it looks like there’s a good group of people who missed this atrocity last week.
Oh, that’s too bad. :-( I guess things are changing everywhere.
The legalese in that article confuses me though. If the constitutional amendment to legalize abortion in the first trimester was narrowly defeated, then shouldn’t that mean it is still illegal? Or is it that it is still “technically” illegal but the “distress” clause is a loophole because women are just claiming mental distress whenever they feel like it now?
Well now everyone knows why I’m not a lawyer LOL...
IF TREES GUSHED BLOOD
If trees gushed blood
When they were felled
By meddling man,
And crimson welled
From every gash
His axe can give,
Would he forbear,
And let them live?
Mervyn Peake
Sorry, thought it was appropriate here
You forgot to mention death by CO2 chambers!
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