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Switzerland Wants to Protect the Rights of Plants
FOXNews ^
| Monday, May 05, 2008
| Brit Hume
Posted on 05/06/2008 2:18:25 PM PDT by DaveyB
Plants' Rights It isn't just the rights of animals that some are promoting. The Weekly Standard reports an ethics panel in Switzerland is expressing concern that the arbitrary killing of plants is morally wrong. The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology says that humans cannot claim "absolute ownership" over plants; that "individual plants have an inherent worth," and that man may not use them as he pleases.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: environment; envirowacko; plants
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To: Jo Nuvark
apropos
To: Das Outsider
[... I seed that one cumin, I did! ...]
It’s euonymous. Ferners can be daffy... dils.
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posted on
05/06/2008 6:21:24 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: DaveyB
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
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posted on
05/06/2008 6:25:09 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Thank God for every morning.)
To: Jo Nuvark
It’s euonymous. Ferners can be daffy... dils.
Puns are so much fungus, aren't they?
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posted on
05/06/2008 6:28:51 PM PDT
by
Das Outsider
(No peasants were harmed in the production of this tagline.)
To: Das Outsider
[... Puns are so much fungus, aren’t they? ...]
As well as intellectually STEMulating.
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posted on
05/06/2008 6:37:29 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Jo Nuvark
As well as intellectually STEMulating.
Are you branching out into plant anatomy? I believe you've got an acute case of punitis. It's terminal, bud.
86
posted on
05/06/2008 6:40:06 PM PDT
by
Das Outsider
(Get the hook!)
To: Das Outsider
Punitis is terminal?
Kiwi not talk about this?
87
posted on
05/06/2008 6:45:57 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Jo Nuvark
Correction:
Kiwi not stalk about this?
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posted on
05/06/2008 6:55:45 PM PDT
by
Das Outsider
(Get the hook!)
To: Das Outsider
[... Kiwi not stalk about this? ...]
Did I mention that my son got married this weekend?
They cantelope because his bride wanted a big wedding.
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posted on
05/06/2008 7:00:09 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Jo Nuvark
Canteloupe? Are they out of their gourds? Weddings are getting berry expensive these dates.
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posted on
05/06/2008 7:05:21 PM PDT
by
Das Outsider
(Get the hook!)
To: Das Outsider
[... Canteloupe? Are they out of their gourds? Weddings are getting berry expensive these dates...]
Yes. Huge weddings are poplar.
*************
Theirs was a simple church wedding. The whole family
cooked, arranged the flower bouquets. I did the
slideshow and the music. The cousins played ib a
string trio. Her sister played the piano for the
candle lighting. I only wish it could have lasted
longer. But the memory will linger like the scent of
jasmine in a twilight meadow.
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posted on
05/06/2008 7:14:14 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: DaveyB; Das Outsider
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posted on
05/06/2008 7:35:30 PM PDT
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Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Jo Nuvark
Oh the laughable irony...!
How did I miss that thread? ;)
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posted on
05/07/2008 4:04:38 PM PDT
by
Das Outsider
("A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."--G.K. Chesterton)
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