Posted on 05/13/2008 12:49:18 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 ...
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!
You forgot to mention death by CO2 chambers!
They can kiss my as-paragus!
“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....
Veggie Tales?
This makes sense for vegans, they only eat seeds and leaves. The only whole plant they eat is the carrot, and that was discussed in the film “Notting Hill”. So the screams of millions of carrots a day fall on the Vegan Community, worse than Hitler!
What about mineral rights?
Just wait for someone to equate the inhumanity of Auschwitz to a bowl of salad.
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