If you thought animal rights activists were bad, soon plants may have rights
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If you thought animal rights activists were bad, soon p... - 5/8/2008 3:43:11 AM
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Bettawrekonize
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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.
The Silent Scream of the Asparagus
Uncommondescent Plant Rights
I am not saying animal rights activists are good or bad, but what about plants? Are we going to have plant right activists soon? Are we going to have the computer rights movement too? If and when computers learn to pass the Turing test, will they demand rights as well? Where do we draw the line? Bacteria? What about if a virus infects you, does it have rights too? Should they stick you on immunosuppressants so your immune system can't hurt the virus  ?
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/8/2008 10:19:35 AM
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I draw and quarter apples before I eat them.
When I eat asparagus I eat the tops first.
Oh, and I love BABY carrots.
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/8/2008 9:18:43 PM
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Bettawrekonize
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(sarcasm)
Pretty soon they're going to outlaw disinfectants because the bacteria have rights. Lets also outlaw microwaves, fire, and anything else that might kill bacteria while we're at it. Or they may say that we may not use things that kill bacteria for no reason because bacteria serve an environmental purpose (coming from a government that believes in unguided evolution by method of purposeless processes).
Then again, maybe I should not say anything, I might give them ideas.
(/sarcasm)
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/8/2008 9:49:06 PM
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There's a scene in Notting Hill (Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant) where Hugh's character is on a date with a fruitarian:
Keziah: No thanks, I'm a fruitarian.
Max: I didn't realize that.
William: And, ahm: what exactly is a fruitarian?
Keziah: We believe that fruits and vegetables have feeling so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that have actually fallen off a tree or bush - that are, in fact, dead already.
William: Right. Right. Interesting stuff. So, these carrots...
Keziah: Have been murdered, yes.
William: Murdered? Poor carrots. How beastly!
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/8/2008 10:13:04 PM
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ORIGINAL: Bettawrekonize
(sarcasm)
Pretty soon they're going to outlaw disinfectants because the bacteria have rights. Lets also outlaw microwaves, fire, and anything else that might kill bacteria while we're at it. Or they may say that we may not use things that kill bacteria for no reason because bacteria serve an environmental purpose (coming from a government that believes in unguided evolution by method of purposeless processes).
Then again, maybe I should not say anything, I might give them ideas.
(/sarcasm)
In all seriousness, if it wasn't for archea still being around (ancient single-celled organisms most people would call bacteria), the planet would be uninhabitable. It's not the plants that produce oxygen and moderate gases in the air on this planet; it's the single-celled organisms.
So if someone ever comes up with a plan to eliminate all bacteria from the planet, it would be in our best interests to let Greenpeace win in this rare case where they'd be right.
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/9/2008 12:28:16 AM
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I have accidently killed every house plant I have owned. My husband sees me walk towars one in wal-mart, and say they are doing the silent scream.
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/9/2008 4:33:24 PM
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LOL. What pray tell do people eat, if meat is bad, vegtables do the scream, what do we eat? Lord help this kooky world.
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I knew there was a reason why I don't like asparagus, brussells sprouts, spinach, and other such stuff. Now I have the perfect (?) excuse for not eating them. 
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/9/2008 4:35:34 PM
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PIZZA!
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LOL. What pray tell do people eat, if meat is bad, vegtables do the scream, what do we eat? Lord help this kooky world.
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ORIGINAL: davemiller7
I knew there was a reason why I don't like asparagus, brussells sprouts, spinach, and other such stuff. Now I have the perfect (?) excuse for not eating them.
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/9/2008 6:02:16 PM
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So if we don't eat animals and we don't eat plants. What are we suppose to eat???
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/9/2008 6:30:02 PM
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Sand?
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/10/2008 1:50:03 AM
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They must be eating Soylent Green.
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/10/2008 3:24:37 AM
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maybe GE-crops? Everybody knows they don't have a soul, after all...
It's the way of the world: "they cry, 'save the trees and kill the children!'"-- Casting Crowns
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/10/2008 9:45:56 AM
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Had that thought, did not know it was lyrics to a song.
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maybe GE-crops? Everybody knows they don't have a soul, after all...
It's the way of the world: "they cry, 'save the trees and kill the children!'"-- Casting Crowns
Adam
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/10/2008 11:04:46 AM
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ta_mosquito
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Or an oldie:
We've got a program for saving the earth
While unborn children are denied their right to birth
One baby's blessed, another cursed -
Have we made this world better or worse
Now that the life of a tree comes first?
(The song is, I think, "Living Life Upside Down" by Truth / Russ Lee. LINK)
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/10/2008 3:59:26 PM
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Movie for these folks "The Attack of the Killer Tomatos"
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RE: If you thought animal rights activists were bad, so... - 5/12/2008 8:01:57 AM
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ta_mosquito
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LOL!
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