I Hear The Cries Of The Carrots!

[freydis]

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Revolution is in the air, as the Swiss Government's Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology concludes that plants have rights, and we have to treat them appropriately. A majority of the panel concluded that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive." The Weekly Standard, which is appalled, gives an example of how a farmer mowing his field is OK, but if he carelessly decapitates flowers while walking home, that is immoral. It suggests that "The animal rights movement grew out of the same poisonous soil." Patrick Metzger at Green Daily suggests that "this concept is a little extreme even for the most committed treehugger."

Having scanned the report, I am not so sure that it is that far off base. It isn't just Julia Butterfly Hill who has fought for the rights of trees, and there are many who fall in love with their garden and protect their tomatoes like their pets, and give them the proper reverence when they are eaten. They don't pick them and throw them against the wall.

Millions of Jains refuse any food obtained with unnecessary cruelty, and many will not eat root vegetables because it kills the plant; it is not like this is a new idea.

They are not, like the Weekly Standard suggests, writing a vegetable Bill of Rights, they are only saying that all living things should be treated with respect. How can one argue with that? Download the PDF report here.

ooooooooookaaaaaayyyy......

[Destroit]

Uhmmm...wow...

What? For serious?

[Goth Brooks]

dear treehuggers, pack your shit.

[hunhee]

Someone's been taking Douglas Adams a bit too serious/literal..haha

that's freaking fantastic.. Fineafuckingtootly!!!

EDIT TO SAY:

I apologize my lovely past plants that I've killed due to lack of care.. I'm sorry to the salads I eat that are probably treated inhumanely at the factory to be placed murderously into a bag for my convenient eating enjoyment.. *SOBS*

lmao seriously this shit is great..

[Oh_My_Goth]

Listen to track 69 on 'Tool' -Undertow.....

It speaks of this Veggie Revolution.....

[freydis]

Listen to track 69 on 'Tool' -Undertow.....

It speaks of this Veggie Revolution.....

That's what I was quoting for the thread title.

[Oh_My_Goth]

That's what I was quoting for the thread title.

Ha, I didn't ever realize it.....

Allot of people never listen to that song very closely.....

[Rev.Reverence]

While I can not in, good taste, stop eating carrots or potatoes...

..however as a staunch Discordian, I have to clap..... for the sheer sillyness...

..as I did when first I heard of this movement, (I'm not kidding, from a junkie)..and the second time, on aforementioned rock album.....and the third time, (from a pill head).....ALWAYS SIDE SPLITTING...

[Draco1958]

Beware the tomatoes. They are the foot soldiers of the vegetable kingdom. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes wasn't just a film, it was based on fact. The government is hiding the truth from us. Beware, beware.

[sass_in_the_pants]

THen I'm going to hell for sure. Not one plant that has come through my door has been met with anything but a slow angonizing death due directly to my negligence.

Who would I confess this particular sin to? The Green Giant?

[Homicidalheathen]

If they are that stupid then why......oh for gods sake. Never mind.

[hunhee]

THen I'm going to hell for sure. Not one plant that has come through my door has been met with anything but a slow angonizing death due directly to my negligence.

Who would I confess this particular sin to? The Green Giant?

Actually Sprite is the true plant god, the green giant is his mercenary/henchmen

[Pandora]

Dear carrot, turnip, onion, potato, tomato and all the yummy veggies that sometimes occupy my tummy:

The time has come, for me to Eat you.

And she ate them, and it was goooooooooood.

Too funny.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Luckily i don't have to make any esoteric arguments for/against the rights of humans vs the rights of plants like i do with the humans vs other animals. I guess if your in a different kingdom (not just a different ordata or genus ) your rights are laughable. Sweet. *wipes nervous sweat off brow*

So for the record the rights of:

Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae = funny as hell.

Animalia = controversial.

For some reason i thought there might actually be support for this. Phew!