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‘Plants rights’? The latest evolutionary absurdity (G.K. Chesterton prediction coming true?)
CMI ^ | April 30, 2009 | Lita Cosner

Posted on 04/30/2009 8:33:46 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Have you mowed your lawn lately? If so, you may have committed a grave ‘plants rights’ crime, according to the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Biotechnology. In what reads like a clever parody, their twenty-four page report argues that plants may well be deserving of nearly the same reverence a human life is due (of course, in practice, these hypocrites would treat plants with greater reverence than human lives, see below).

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Ironically, the great apologist G.K. Chesterton predicted a century ago the move toward plant rights when he discussed animal rights (although he can hardly have been serious when he did), and he connected it to the belief in evolution...

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To: TypeZoNegative

You genocidal maniac! Off to the Hague with you!


21 posted on 04/30/2009 9:03:38 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: Oldpuppymax

I lived next door to some Swiss people and the arrogance is unbelievable. The US is utterly stupid, all the people are ignoramouses, Bush was an idiot, all of our construction was sub-par, we were backwards and couldn’t speak multiple languages. And those were just the criticisms they would verbalize.

The Swiss, on the other hand, were educated, smart, innovative, beautiful, politically correct, and multi-lingual. And they brought the world good chocolate (blech), international wine, and amazing monetary management.

Then, we found out the guy had a high school education and she barely finished high school. He pretended to be an “Engineer” and “Architect”, pay no attention he had no licesnses, degrees or certificates. He was asked to refrain from pretending to anyone. The arrogance of the Europeans is astonishing. It’s like someone coming to your house and going to the bathroom on the living room furniture, then telling you it smells funny in your house.


22 posted on 04/30/2009 9:04:38 AM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: TypeZoNegative

Wow, if there was ever a chance of me becoming a vegetarian, that picture would do it!


23 posted on 04/30/2009 9:05:58 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: svcw

Amen!


24 posted on 04/30/2009 9:07:31 AM PDT by rjsimmon (1-20-2013)
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To: GodGunsGuts

According to the Swiss, you would be a serial murderer.


25 posted on 04/30/2009 9:07:36 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: montyspython

Indeed, I will be covering my hamburger with a couple of my freshest victims in just a few hours!


26 posted on 04/30/2009 9:09:00 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Liberals committing murder...

27 posted on 04/30/2009 9:10:08 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Thanks for the ping!


28 posted on 04/30/2009 9:12:33 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Dutchboy88

Your neighbor is Art Vandelay?


29 posted on 04/30/2009 9:21:14 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: HerrBlucher

LOL. We expected him to be a marine biologist after that.


30 posted on 04/30/2009 9:22:56 AM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: GodGunsGuts

Vegetarians and vegans, it would seem, should be starving themselves to death.


31 posted on 04/30/2009 9:27:00 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: HerrBlucher

I love that movie (Young Frankenstein). I wondered for years why the horses always realed up and whinnied when someone repeated your screen name. Then I saw Cloris Leachman on O’Reilly and she said she wondered the same thing for many years until Mel Brooks told her that Blucher was German for glue. <>p Love that movie.


32 posted on 04/30/2009 9:36:52 AM PDT by Dad was my hero
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To: laotzu
I water-boarded some potatoes.

We water-board potatoes with boiling water. Then we crush them. Then we eat them! Sometimes we chop up other plants and throw them in there, too

33 posted on 04/30/2009 10:05:59 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: laotzu
Dandelions?!! That's not racist. Its homophobic.

That's right! I always though they were a bit flamboyant, especially when they get all fluffy.

34 posted on 04/30/2009 10:07:58 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: rjsimmon

It would only be considered wetlands if your dog or cat pi$$ed on it.......:O)


35 posted on 04/30/2009 11:13:51 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: Right Wing Assault; All

I love threads like this one...it shows how witty freepers are and a great way to get many chuckles.


36 posted on 04/30/2009 11:19:12 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: GodGunsGuts

37 posted on 04/30/2009 5:53:47 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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