April 15, 2008
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/now_plants_have_rights_too/
Slowly, slowly, humans are being denied the right to exist:
Plants deserve respect, a group of Swiss experts said Monday, arguing
that killing them arbitrarily was morally wrong-except when it comes to
saving humans or maybe picking petals off a daisy.
In a re****t on "the dignity of the creature in the plant world," the
federal Ethics Committee on non-human Gene Technology condemned the
decapitation of flowers without reason, among other sins.
Still, commission member Bernard Baertschi suggested at a press
conference the body weighed such cruel acts on a case-by-case basis,
noting "the simple pleasure of picking the petals off a daisy might
suffice as a reason."
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"How does a small increase in a very small component [of CO2] have such
a large apparent effect [On Climate]? The truth is that no one has yet
shown that it does." Don Aitkin
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