"RIIIIIIIIIICOOOOOOOLAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
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
A YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP ping to the gardening list.
SHEESH..............
Leave it to morally blind leftists to give credence to an logically bankrupt philosophy.
Hey...I give them credit for being consistent, at least. The animal rights crowd has never acknowledged that their logic must ultimately lead to this.
"RIIIIIIIIIICOOOOOOOLAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
Don’t try to understand. The liberal mind is a mass of contradictions and feel-good idiocy.
**FREEPER KITCHEN PING**
I kept a notebook of 15 minute writing compost a few years back. I don’t know how it got thrown out, but I am still upset about. One of my short essays questioned, “If potatoes have eyes and corn has ears, then what will vegetarians eat?” Especially since you can hear the potato screaming when you put it in the microwave. It sounds like a bunny when it screams in terror.
In a way, I like this. I've always wondered how militant vegans have decided it's bad to kill an animal, but it's okay to mercilessly butcher an innocent plant. Out there, minding its own business, waving in the breeze, and suddenly some chlorophyll-thirsty sadistic vegan rips it out of the ground.
How dare they.
Well, I think this is a good time to invest in swiss chard futures. If this spreads, Brussels sprouts might be next. I’m going to dump my Vienna Sausage futures, however.
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I’ve been waiting for this, I”m frankly surprised it took em this long.. I don’t know how buddhists survive frankly, when every breath and every step murders a ‘living’ being.. and the vegans? OMG think of the slaughter... don’t they think that vegetables have feelings too?
I think the Breatharians have it right... you remember them, they are the ones that are convinced that humans weren’t meant to subsist on food at all..
This gives a whole new meaning to the term “dead-heading”. I see they left lawn mowing out of this story. Typical nutty libs, some vegetation is “more equal” than other vegetation.
The Federal Constitution requires "account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms". The ECNH’s key tasks include putting this concept into concrete terms.So it's not merely a useless exercise. If Pro-Life folks are arguing for an American Constitutional amendment to respect life, we might want to take this seriously and not mock it so. After all, as the article points out, there are those who would ignore or deny the "Würde der Kreatur" in cases of those who have lesser cognitive abilities.
While it's important we recognize the lines between "Würde der Kreatur" and full-fledged "animal rights" or "plant rights," the report does address these, and does not require a signed contract before picking an apple, or a living will before harvesting wheat! :-)
Also, note that the committee addresses some of the positions implied on this thread...
That plants should in some circumstances be protected in the interest of a third party, e.g. because they are useful to humans, is undisputed. Independent of the term dignity of living beings, then, the central question therefore remains: whether plants have an inherent worth, and should therefore be protected for their own sake. For some people, the question of whether the treatment or handling of plants requires moral justification is a meaningless one. The moral consideration of plants is considered to be senseless. Some people have warned that simply having this discussion at all is risible. In their view, the human treatment of plants is on morally neutral ground and therefore requires no justification.I'm curious how many FReepers actually looked at the document itself before criticizing it. Other than a rush to read it now, has anyone here besides me actually read it?
It is obvious to those who have read the report that this Weekly Standard piece presents a rather misleading picture. For example, it might interest FReepers to know that the report contains such points as the following:
A clear majority of the members takes the position that plant collectives have no inherent worth.
On the flip side, though, most FReepers would cringe from a true Christian world view. In a true Judeo-Christian world view, the earth is NOT man's (see Psalms 24:1), and to follow Jesus is to give up all material wealth and family (Luke 12:33 and Matthew 8:19-22). And the plant life is not for humanity alone, either (Gen 1:30).
It would also seem that God has His focus on sustainability (Psalms 119:90). Those who feel that "dominion=exploitation" should read more deeply, and realize that ethics apply even where responsibility has been given over.
I think one appropriate questioning of the report is why none of the committee members chose the Theocentric nature of the moral object, but most felt that the reason for considering moral issues with plants is that "Living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive." (the biocentrist view that the Weekly Standard article decries).
But is that view anti-theological, or merely encompassing?
Who crys for the krill?
They're Plants, Sir......Plants!...PLANTS!...
I find the use of the word ‘creation’ ... uh, interesting.
Just proves a theory I’ve had for a long time. Those “live” foods i.e. plants, fruits and veggies, are screaming for their lives when consumed. lol
So, does this mean we need to execute cows for the crime of torturing grass?
Or, since the death penalty has been banned in Europe, does it mean that cows must be given indefinite prison sentences, until they amend their ways?
While they are in prison, what should we feed them?