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Euros: Plants have rights, too

Seriously, did the bunnyhuggers at PETA think that their barbarism would go unnoticed?  The senseless slaughter of arugula has left untold gallons of chlorophyll on your hands, you PEAT punks!Snicker…Karma’s a female dog, ain’t it?  From the Weekly Standard:

You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity” of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is being seriously debated.

A few years ago the Swiss added to their national constitution a provision requiring “account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms.” No one knew exactly what it meant, so they asked the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology to figure it out. The resulting report, “The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants,” is enough to short circuit the brain.

A “clear majority” of the panel adopted what it called a “biocentric” moral view, meaning that “living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive.” Thus, the panel determined that we cannot claim “absolute ownership” over plants and, moreover, that “individual plants have an inherent worth.” (Oh, I see!  Human individualism is bad, but plant individualism is good?  Got it.  Thanks for the clarification. – Ed.) This means that “we may not use them just as we please, even if the plant community is not in danger, or if our actions do not endanger the species, or if we are not acting arbitrarily.”

No, it’s not a hoax.  This is another case of Euros doing what Euros do best: wallowing in moonbattery.

Exit question: We’re not supposed to eat animals, and now we’re not supposed to eat plants…so just what in the blue hell are we supposed to eat?  Paint chips?

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May 5, 2008 - Posted by | environuts, Euros, moonbats

8 Comments »

  1. so just what in the blue hell are we supposed to eat?

    SOYLENT GREEN.

    Comment by Kanaka Girl | May 5, 2008

  2. KG
    I’ll bet those Euros wouldn’t have done that if Charlton Heston was still alive!

    Comment by tnjack | May 5, 2008

  3. This is a true story,
    10 years ago, I got tired of spending $20 – $50 a year on pumpkins for Halloween, so just like I had done with Christmas trees many years earlier, I bought an artificial Jack-O-Lantern. Needless to say, I got lots of grief for being frugal. To change the subject from my cheapness to something else, I started saying “I’m for Plant rights” and I’m protesting the “needless slaughter of pumpkins and other gourds every year for this holiday”

    Never in my wildest dreams did I think, ten years ago that my poor attempt at being funny would come true in an European Country’s Constitution. The Moonbats have not gone back to their caves from Halloween.

    Comment by Steve | May 5, 2008

  4. “…just what in the blue hell are we supposed to eat? Paint chips?”

    Sir, I think you may have discovered the root of much of the “thinking” by the Euro-nuts. Lots and lots of tasty, lead-based paint chips…

    Comment by PabloD | May 5, 2008

  5. Save a cabbage…eat a European.

    Comment by ManicNole | May 6, 2008

  6. LOL Manic! :lol:

    Comment by crushliberalism | May 6, 2008

  7. Dang I didn’t know some many lefties are such people who look for new things to feel guilty about.

    Goodness gracious they really are a bunch of wealthy elitists with too much time on their hands to even engage in such a fruitless debate.

    Gee and I thought being a vegan was taking one’s love of animals a little too far!
    I could live with meat but I can’t live without eggs and dairy this is insane!

    Comment by Chilerkle | May 6, 2008

  8. Oh look at whats happened to the EUROWEENIE UNION OF EUROWEENIES hey PETA BEWARE YOUR VEGAN BARBARIANS THE PLANTS ARE GOING TO EAT YOU AUDRIE(LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS)SWAMP THING,TRIFIDS(DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS) and in a episode of the animated STAR TREK which involved intellegent plants PHILOSIANS and their leader AGMAR they think of you PETA doofuses as BARBARTIC

    Comment by Birdzilla | October 13, 2008


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