‘Plants rights’? The latest evolutionary absurdity (G.K. Chesterton prediction coming true?)

CMI ^ | April 30, 2009 | Lita Cosner

[GodGunsGuts]

Have you mowed your lawn lately? If so, you may have committed a grave ‘plants rights’ crime, according to the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Biotechnology. In what reads like a clever parody, their twenty-four page report argues that plants may well be deserving of nearly the same reverence a human life is due (of course, in practice, these hypocrites would treat plants with greater reverence than human lives, see below).

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Ironically, the great apologist G.K. Chesterton predicted a century ago the move toward plant rights when he discussed animal rights (although he can hardly have been serious when he did), and he connected it to the belief in evolution...

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[svcw]

Ok, this one I could support. I hate cutting the grass, just let it go to meadow. /s/

[Oldpuppymax]

The Swiss! Now there’s a truly important nation, whose people have made countless contributions to mankind. Why, without them, we would be forced to muddle through life without Patek Phillipe watches and secret bank accounts! The HORROR!

[GodGunsGuts]

Poblem is, that meadow can dry out and burn your house down!

[GodGunsGuts]

Gotta love those secret bank accounts. We’re gonna need them when the bills for BO’s various “stimulus” plans come due!!!

[svcw]

I was being sarcastic. But if my house burns down think how much fossil fuel I will save but not heating and cooling. /s/

[GodGunsGuts]

I should think you will use a lot more fossil fuels trying to heat or cool the space where your house once stood :o)

[rjsimmon]

Ok, this one I could support. I hate cutting the grass, just let it go to meadow. /s/

Unfortunately the Federal Government would assign it protected status as wetlands. This happened to a plot of land cut off from its natural drainage by a new road. The water pooled up, willows and tall grass grew and became protected lands.

[Little Ray]

This is satire. Right?

Its getting so hard to tell.

[Right Wing Assault]

I have a racist lawn. Every time the dandelions try to integrate, I kill them.

If plants ever get such rights, I will cover all my ground with thick plastic sheets. That will probably get me sent to prison for a hate crime.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I want a time machine so I can go back to 1875. This is nuts.

[svcw]

Do you remember the congressman who said of the EPA “if a dog pi$$es in a field they claim its wet lands”.
I can not remember his name, I think he is in jail.

Its only going to get worse with King Barry at the helm.

[GodGunsGuts]

Here’s the link to the “Plants Rights” report cited in the article:

http://www.ekah.admin.ch/uploads/media/e-Broschure-Wurde-Pflanze-2008.pdf

[boocoowell]

We have a city commissioner here in Portland who precedes this. He said trees have rights, too.

http://wingnutsunited.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/trees-have-rights-another-proof-that-whackjobs-run-portland/

[Right Wing Assault]

Of course we will need mosquito rights, bacteria rights, and virus rights. Then we can go to rock and dirt rights.

[TypeZoNegative]

I dunno, GGG, I say these plants look just about right to me, how about you?

[Signalman]

I warming to replacing my front lawn with astroturf.

[montyspython]

Hey! Marijuana buds have feelings too ya know... Tell that to a hippy and let him know that he is violating the pot plant's rights by growing it only to set it on fire later.

Oh the humanity!!!

[laotzu]

I have a racist lawn. Every time the dandelions try to integrate, I kill them.

Dandelions?!! That's not racist. Its homophobic.

Last night, I water-boarded some potatoes.