[rhema]

In today's society, the asparagus is more highly esteemed than this baby.

[djpg]

I love the phrase, “the plant community.”

[chainsaw]

What is making these nut cases come out of the woodwork. To think they are at the top of the food chain, to boot, boggles the mind.

If they believe what they are saying, we won’t have to worry - they won’t be with us very long.

We need more jokes about the Swiss and fewer about the Norwegians.

[Gorzaloon]

A "clear majority" of the panel adopted what it called a "biocentric" moral view, meaning that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive."

The Aids Virus.

The Malaria Mosquito.

AB-Resistant Bacteria.

The Syphilis spirocete.

The Rabies Prion.

What ISN'T alive are the brains of these silly and pointless people.

They obviously have no productive purpose on this Earth, and should be humanely dispatched and fed to the daisies. Now.

[RouxStir]

I have a different view: Plants are robbing the planet of elementary resources and sequestering them as hydrocarbons and other organic matter. Eventually, there will be no more free oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, potassium, etc. I’m doing my part in recycling by burning hydrocarbons and eating hydrocarbons.

[Alas Babylon!]

The committee does not consider that genetic engineering of plants automatically falls into this category, but its majority view holds that it would if the genetic modification caused plants to "lose their independence"--for example by interfering with their capacity to reproduce.

Hybrid plants have been around for years; hybrids do not produce viable offspring--either their seeds are sterile or will not grow to the same properties of their parent. So, will the Swiss ban hybrids?

What about seedless watermelons, grapes, oranges, and other fruits? Ban?

This line of thinking is absolutely absurd!

[Larry R. Johnson]

I recently cut down a medium sized ash tree, but its screams were drowned out by the roar of the chain saw. 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?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Indeed, the most radical "deep ecologists" have grown so virulently misanthropic that Paul Watson, the head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, called humans "the AIDS of the earth," requiring "radical invasive therapy" in order to reduce the population of the earth to under a billion.

Naturally, Paul Watson will be among the "under a billion."

[csvset]

Luther Burbank, criminal? Messing with a plant's dignity !

[tips up]

This should be from Scrappleface...

[tennteacher]

Can I declare my Forest Pansy redbud as a tax deduction?

[Renderofveils]

"Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?"
And the angel said unto me,
"These are the cries of the carrots,
the cries of the carrots.
You see, reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day
and to them it is the holocaust."
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat
like the tears of one millions terrified brothers
and roared,
"Hear me now,
I have seen the light,
they have a consciousness,
they have a life,
they have a soul.
damn you!
Let the rabbits wear glasses,
save our brothers...can I get an amen?
can I get a hallelujah? thank you, Jesus.

Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on...
This is necessary.

- Tool, "Disgustipated"

Great satire of the vegan "movement."

[Waco]

No

[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.

[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...

[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!