The new enviro push, plant rights.

[Dare-Ya]

I heard this on the news today. I put a link to the full story down below. Becareful not to decapitate any harmless flowers.

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.

It cites a hypothetical example of a farmer "decapitating" wildflowers as expressing a moral stance toward the organism and possibly doing something bad to the flowers themselves.
One critic of the report says the concept of plant dignity provides what he called "another tool of opponents to argue against any form of plant biotechnology."

— FOX News Channel's Martin Hill contributed to this report.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/065njdoe.asp

 

[buck50]

I heard this on the news today. I put a link to the full story down below. Becareful not to decapitate any harmless flowers.

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.

It cites a hypothetical example of a farmer "decapitating" wildflowers as expressing a moral stance toward the organism and possibly doing something bad to the flowers themselves.
One critic of the report says the concept of plant dignity provides what he called "another tool of opponents to argue against any form of plant biotechnology."

— FOX News Channel's Martin Hill contributed to this report.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/065njdoe.asp

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sidehiller]

I stepped on a dandelion this morning. Now I'm morally obligated to kill myself!

 

[Ice Cap]

Does that mean that if you mow your lawn you are a serial killer?
My guess is those people are probably racist and only give rights to certain plants lol

 

[ruffryder]

Interesting article, though you need to read between the lines to see what the Swiss are doing, and not get thrown by all the emotionaly biased words. Basically it is a paradigm shift from the mentality that the world is here for humans to use, to one where humans are here to co-exist, not dominate the world around us.

Watch out jesus freaks, the end is near!

 

[IMSICK]

Does that mean that if you mow your lawn you are a serial killer?
My guess is those people are probably racist and only give rights to certain plants lol

Ha... you'd have to break it down into sections to be labeled properly.. Mowing the lawn would make you a mass murderer and possibly line you up for future accusations of genocide... herbicide maybe. If you use a weed eater, you are selectively decapitating specific blades of grass, this would probably designate you as a serial killer.

 

[Ice Cap]

Ha... you'd have to break it down into sections to be labeled properly.. Mowing the lawn would make you a mass murderer and possibly line you up for future accusations of genocide... herbicide maybe. If you use a weed eater, you are selectively decapitating specific blades of grass, this would probably designate you as a serial killer.

Lol well said

 

[Dare-Ya]

Is what's scary, is this is an actual federal study. You gotta just scratch your head an say what in the he!!.

 

[HawkShot99]

Ha... you'd have to break it down into sections to be labeled properly.. Mowing the lawn would make you a mass murderer and possibly line you up for future accusations of genocide... herbicide maybe. If you use a weed eater, you are selectively decapitating specific blades of grass, this would probably designate you as a serial killer.

I do both of those, plus put down grass seed. So is that like trying to grow a master race?

Wow I am a evil person....

 

[POLZIN]

Interesting article, though you need to read between the lines to see what the Swiss are doing, and not get thrown by all the emotionaly biased words. Basically it is a paradigm shift from the mentality that the world is here for humans to use, to one where humans are here to co-exist, not dominate the world around us.

Watch out jesus freaks, the end is near!

When I read this kinda crap I hope the end is near! natural selection will weed out the gene pool in a hurry!damn flower huggin hippie idiots!

 

[ruffryder]

When I read this kinda crap I hope the end is near! natural selection will weed out the gene pool in a hurry!damn flower huggin hippie idiots!

My crap or the articles crap?