The Silent Scream of the Asparagus: Get ready for 'plant rights.'

Weekly Standard ^ | 05/12/2008 | Wesley J. Smith

[Waco]

No

[Puppage]

So, the greenies on one side want us to live in caves and these loons want us to eat dirt?

[Popman]

Some ideologues even compare the Nazi death camps to normal practices of animal husbandry. For example, Charles Patterson wrote in Eternal Treblinka--a book specifically endorsed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals--that "the road to Auschwitz begins at the slaughterhouse."

People who think like this need to be put away in nice facilities with bars on the windows and rubber rooms

[Ezekiel]

Thus, the panel determined that we cannot claim "absolute ownership" over plants and, moreover, that "individual plants have an inherent worth." This means that "we may not use them just as we please, even if the plant community is not in danger, or if our actions do not endanger the species, or if we are not acting arbitrarily."

Looks like the panel has emotional need to coddle Eden.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

For the mopst part, they are wealthy and over-educated and have no connection with God.

[mrmargaritaville]

I’m going to honor all of those sugar cane plants that gave their life for my rum, I’ll toast them while I pound shots of Appleton Estates XV while I watch the race this evening.

[Proverbs 3-5]

Me thinks the Swiss have been watching too much Veggie Tales...

[Pablo64]

"Seriously, what would one call a group of people who swore off eating anything that was alive or ever was alive or came even remotely from anything alive?"

Eventually, you would call them "corpses".

;-)

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Darn ... I have to go out and viciously decapitate nearly 8 acres of grass blades today. Call me a monster ...

[weegee]

Arbitrary killing of babies is still “ok” because it would inconvenience the mother by making her quit liquor, drugs, smoking, and whoring it about. She’d also put on weight. And what? For some parasitic lifeform that practically rapes her uterus by tresspassing on HER personal space. < /s >

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Don’t you dare eat that tomato ... it has rights ping!

[Round 9]

I’m glad to see something like this. I hope it garners serious attention. This is the type of absurdity that will send the pendulum swinging back in our direction rapidly as people note how absolutely bizarre the leftist path can become.

[dighton]

I love the phrase, “the plant community.”

Coined by an honorary member.

[WorkingClassFilth]

If you do a bit of googling, you’ll find that many deep green radicals advocate wars, disease, genocide, abortion and homosexuality as solutions to erradicating humanity. There is no doubt about their clear alliance with leftism and the RAT party - all for one and one for all.

[weegee]

Let them eat mud pies. But wait, there are organisms in that mud.

And besides, that air you breath becomes CO2. We are supposed to off ourselves, become worm food, and renew the Earth.

Human sacrifice for Gaia. < /s >

[Mr Rogers]

Artist: The Arrogant Worms
Song: Carrot Juice Is Murder

Listen up brothers and sisters
come hear my desperate tale
I speak of our friends of nature
trapped in the dirt like a jail
Vegetables live in oppression,
served on our tables each night
This killing of veggies is madness,
I say we take up the fight
Salads are only for murderers,
coleslaw’s a fascist regime
Don’t think that they don’t have feelings,
just cause a radish can’t scream

Chorus:
I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)

Carrot juice constitutes murder (and that’s a real crime)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables go)
It’s time to stop all this gardening (it’s dirty as hell)
Let’s call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade is a spade)

I saw a man eating celery,
so I beat him black and blue
If he ever touches a sprout again,
I’ll bite him clean in two
I’m a political prisoner,
trapped in a windowless cage
Cause I stopped the slaughter of turnips
by killing five men in a rage
I told the judge when he sentenced me,
“This is my finest hour,
I’d kill those farmers again
just to save one more cauliflower”

Chorus

How low as people do we dare to stoop,
Making young broccolis bleed in the soup?
Untie your beans, uncage your tomatoes
Let potted plants free, don’t mash that potato!
Oh spare the spud! Eat a cow instead!

I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
Watching their skins being peeled (fates in the stir-fry are sealed)
Grated and steamed with no mercy (you fat gourmet slob)
How do you think that feels? (leave them out in the field)
Carrot juice constitutes murder (V8’s genocide)
Greenhouses prisons for slaves (yes, your composts are graves)
It’s time to stop all this gardening (take up macrame)
Let’s call a spade a spade
(is a spade, is a spade, is a spade, is a spade......)

Power to the peas! Give peas a chance!
all we are saying, is give peas a chance

[WorkingClassFilth]

There is an entire argument developed to meet the questions you raise. To the deep greens, humanity veered from the loving bosom of Gaia when we began to practice agriculture to feed ourselves versus period famine and routine starvation. Recall the best selling book ‘Ishmael’ a few years back - the populist version of this argument put in story form for college bred dullards.

[dighton]

MARINARA IS MURDER!

[Gabz]

A YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP ping to the gardening list.

SHEESH..............

[reformedliberal]

You didn't get the memo? We have endangered and threatened soils, you know. Forget eating dirt. That is just for Haitians.

Look, these are the acts of loons. All anyone sane can do is laugh politely, pat them on their heads and go on living.

Yesterday, I went online to look at the art work of someone I used to know rather well. This person is talented, educated, married wealth, has three children and at least four grandchildren. They live expensively in a major urban area and travel the world at will. They have been grounded in Reformed Judaism and active for decades in Illinois Democrat politics (main reason for the past tense relationship). I found childish posters decrying the “use of the EPA for political purposes” (!) and hand made books detailing extensive BDS. This privileged person is literally making themselves ill over imaginary anxieties and hatred. And, from past experience, I know that any injection of reality will call forth a haughty condescension followed by a mini nervous breakdown that will blame reality for being *politically manipulated* and will call in support from the entire family because they have a *right* to be happy and to *feel safe*.

For my part, I have simply tried to forget these people. I cannot see how they can continue to attempt their ill-informed, overt, controlling temper tantrums to any successful end. They are in the minority. They keep escalating their demands to the point where no one could possibly comply and they do not have the real power to make a majority do so. And they do not understand that even they are not living to their own standards and are thereby hypocrites. And if they did, it would be someone else's fault, probably George W. Bush.

Let's see how the majority of the Swiss people deal with these vague pronouncements. IMO, they are a fairly stolid lot.