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Green Group Claims "Hops Have Feelings, Too"
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 | GreenisRed
Posted on 08/30/2007 10:03:15 AM PDT by GreenisRed
According to John Lane of PETH: People for the Ethical Treatment of Hops, hop plants form communities and emotional attachments, so harvesting living hops is an act of cruelty. 
I'd like to think this is a joke, but if green nutjobs think animals have rights, is thinking the same about plants too much of a stretch? Put down that beer... the plant police are coming! 
Expect a "protected" species bill from Barbara Bonkers any day now... and millions of starving greenies around the world as they exercise their "compassion."
TOPICS: Agriculture; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beer; fundamentalistpagans; hops; peth; rights
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To: GreenisRed
    Well, if we can’t eat plants and we can’t eat animals, we’ll have to eat fish. I love fish but it’s going to get really dull.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:05:28 AM PDT
by 
Greg F
(Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
 
To: GreenisRed
    "Hops Have Feelings, Too" Indeed they do -- they feel great when combined with malted barley, yeast, and water consumed cold on a hot summer day.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:09:11 AM PDT
by 
Mr. Mojo
("Hidin' in a corner ...of New York City, lookin' down a .44 in West Virginy")
 
To: Lazarus Longer
    i couldnt have said it better myself. cheers!
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:11:16 AM PDT
by 
Disciplinemisanthropy
(...and that, friends, is what grinds my gears.)
 
To: GreenisRed
    It’s the hoppiest plant I know!
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:12:27 AM PDT
by 
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agammemnon dead.)
 
To: GreenisRed
    These people are mentally ill
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:15:37 AM PDT
by 
stm
(Fred Thompson in 08! Return our country to the era of Reagan Conservatism now.)
 
To: Lazarus Longer
    And it gives me a good feeling.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:21:40 AM PDT
by 
doodad
 
To: knews_hound
    Your-beer-feels-you-while-you-feel-your-beer-ping.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:21:51 AM PDT
by 
T.Smith
 
To: Petronski
    hops have feelings too ping
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:32:01 AM PDT
by 
cyborg
(Long Island Half Marathon finisher!)
 
To: cyborg
    Hops DO have feelings. They feel tingly on my palate.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:36:07 AM PDT
by 
Petronski
(Why would Romney lie about Ronald Reagan's record?)
 
To: Petronski
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:37:18 AM PDT
by 
cyborg
(Long Island Half Marathon finisher!)
 
To: GreenisRed
    I tned to favor highly hopped ales, myself. A noble destiny for a sensitive hop.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:39:00 AM PDT
by 
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969.  St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
 
To: Lazarus Longer
    ...when combined with malted barley, yeast, and water and consumed cold on a hot summer day.when combined with malted barley, yeast, and water and consumed cold on a day which has weather, in any season.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:41:14 AM PDT
by 
Petronski
(Why would Romney lie about Ronald Reagan's record?)
 
To: Petronski
    Hops certainly GIVE me feelings...that is their job.. and I’m sticking to it officer...
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:50:12 AM PDT
by 
NemoDog
(and Nero played)
 
To: T.Smith; quantim; spinestein; 5Madman2; DTogo; Horatio Gates; Ribeye; decal; B Knotts; doodad; ...
    The real question is;
  Do the high IBU plants feel more or less pain than the low IBU varieties?
 
 Inquiring minds need to know!
 
  On or off this low volume Ping List, let me know.
 
 Cheers,
 
 knewshound
 
Brew Your Own
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 10:57:26 AM PDT
by 
knews_hound
(In order to not be banned, I no longer discuss Politics here.)
 
To: GreenisRed
    I think this guy has been smoking his hops.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 11:04:52 AM PDT
by 
Manic_Episode
(Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
 
To: GreenisRed
    It's not easy being green.
 
 So I bet an IPA is the anti-christ to them.
 
 I like to use a stethoscope so I can hear the hops scream while the hungry wort devours them. It Sounds delicious.
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posted on 
08/30/2007 11:15:34 AM PDT
by 
IronKros
( The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup)
 
To: GreenisRed
    To be an ingredient in beer is the noblest aspiration of any member of the Vegetable Kingdom. You don’t hear barley complaining about it, do you?
 
To: GreenisRed
    Welcome to Free Republic. This is complete bull-puckey.
A majority of the people I work with in the Austin home brewing community are hardcore veggie/vegan PETA types. You can take their beer from their cold dead hands.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 11:29:13 AM PDT
by 
BJClinton
(And then it occured to me: a real rocket scientist posted the Friday silliness thread on Thursday.)
 
To: BJClinton
    Don’t tell them yeast is animal.
 
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posted on 
08/30/2007 11:33:57 AM PDT
by 
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
 
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