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- THETEH, on 10/19/2008, -1/+91Well, there goes my lifelong dream of traveling to Switzerland and insulting all the moss I could find. DAMN YOU, SWITZERLAND, DAMN YOU!!!
- Hegemony, on 10/19/2008, -1/+65Oh, I love The Onion -- I, err... not The Onion?
- Aroundtheworls, on 10/19/2008, -10/+68"Keller recently asked permission of the government to conduct a field trial of a genetically modified wheat bred with a resistance to fungus. In order to actually gain permission to go ahead with the trial, he needed to hash out the potential threats to the dignity of the wheat."
We've got wars going on, the global economy in tatters, and the usual amount of poverty and starvation out there.
...and these guys are concerned about the dignity of vegetables???
??? - Bloodwine, on 10/19/2008, -0/+58Does that make my lawnmower bagger attachment a concentration camp?
- AFelsinger, on 10/19/2008, -3/+53From the story: The treatise established that vegetation has innate value and that it is morally wrong to partake in activities such as the “decapitation of wildflowers at the roadside without rational reason.”
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that there are no slaughterhouses in Switzerland? Since, ya know, animals can actually feel it when they're decapitated. - inactive, on 10/19/2008, -1/+48I'm a level 5 vegan. I dont eat anything that casts a shadow
- KORGOTH, on 10/19/2008, -4/+48I just took a ***** on a carrot.
USA! USA! - Diggnabbit, on 10/19/2008, -3/+40Well, eating animals is a rational reason as far as I'm concerned!
- forthex, on 10/19/2008, -0/+33I photosynthesize, therefore, I am.
- HisVaderness, on 10/19/2008, -0/+26What a country. Amazing chocolate, plant rights....
- madfrogurt, on 10/19/2008, -0/+26Sometimes it takes half a dozen educated people in many diverse fields to come together and write something so profoundly stupid that it makes the average moron seem wise.
- paniq, on 10/19/2008, -0/+25no, but it makes your lawnmower a weapon of grass destruction.
- breakingrocks, on 10/19/2008, -13/+37I would agree, everything alive has its own intrinsic worth. What's the point in killing something that you don't intend to eat or use somehow. Killing for killing's sake is cruel and irrational.
This is however remarkably difficult to legislate for. I think things like crops, threatened species, species essential to an eco system and trees (especially old trees) should be protected from vandalism and pointless destruction, for economical, environmental and moral reasons.
Why should plants be given less respect than animals? They have been around longer than us and without them our mode of life would be impossible, I think they deserve our complete respect. - poidh, on 10/19/2008, -0/+18So there'll be no more high quality extreme insertion vegetable porn coming out of Switzerland then.
- Haoie, on 10/19/2008, -1/+19That's good and all.
I just hope vegeterians can still eat vegetables at the end of the day. - Batfishy, on 10/19/2008, -7/+24Are they at war? I heard their banking system is tops. Maybe they just have time on their hands?
I guess I just like studies in general. They often take the scientists down different roads that lead to something valuable or worthwhile. - siszam, on 10/19/2008, -1/+16What about invasive weeds and such? There has to be a balance. Sometimes you have to kill plants.
- Aroundtheworls, on 10/19/2008, -0/+15I agree that we should take care to preserve the ecosystem- after all, without any plants in the world we won't last too long- but it's going a bit too far to start banning the picking of flowers and worrying about plant feelings.
- nullvector, on 10/19/2008, -5/+20LOL. Am I the only one to think this is ridiculous.
I find it funny because the houses they live in are a byproduct of destroying the environment and grass below them....
Why don't we all just move to the moon so as not to disturb Earth. - venom8599, on 10/19/2008, -0/+15Then we'd be disturbing the moon's natural environment. The only logical thing to do is to commit suicide en masse. Plant rights activists first.
- BradOFarrell, on 10/19/2008, -1/+15Thats Mr Onion to you. Show a little respect, man.
- mdelling, on 10/19/2008, -2/+15Plants get less respect that animals because animals have brains and plants don't.
- BuryBrigade08, on 10/19/2008, -0/+12I'm not sure whats more disgusting - that diggers are drawing on their anti-America hatred to applaud this, or that a country has enough time to waste to even consider this kind of utter BS.
- zyklon, on 10/19/2008, -3/+15Dignity of vegetables? When it's put that way, you sound like you're defending Terry Schaivo's right to life, etc, etc.
- Aliwalla, on 10/19/2008, -1/+13Morality is a human construct designed to maximize the individuals benefit from the social group by creating a system of cooperation and organization within a society therefore maximizing the value of participating in the social group to the individual. Plants are not part of our social group, so unless one can show that randomly decapitating road side flowers someone subtracts from the value of society to the individual it is not immoral.
- inactive, on 10/19/2008, -2/+13Honestly, I think her dignity would've been much better served if they had simply allowed her to die and not have had her trotted out for the television cameras like she was.
- duggdowncatisad, on 10/19/2008, -1/+12Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
- subterfuge, on 10/19/2008, -1/+11i'm pretty sure the wheat would lose more of its dignity if it had fungus growing on it
- stealthc, on 10/19/2008, -1/+11Kind of makes me want to Bern Switzerland.
(You have no idea how long I've been waiting to use that one.) - Juaquin, on 10/19/2008, -2/+12This is what happens when your country isn't busy blowing things up and paying for corporate spa vacations.
I guess that's a good thing. - asdfuiop, on 10/19/2008, -2/+12............................................________
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..................................., - dhughes, on 10/19/2008, -0/+10 Level 5's only last a short time, they die of starvation.
- doiveo, on 10/19/2008, -5/+15This is a conceptual jump for most but there is a certain logic to it. Not a conclusion I would make myself but an interesting point of view none the less.
- CrushThemTorg, on 10/19/2008, -0/+10I'm moving to Switzerland and studying wildflower-picking law.
- breakingrocks, on 10/19/2008, -1/+10I'm sure picking flowers for many people has its own worth, that is to say they are using them. Which I don't object to, like I don't object to killing animals for food. Picking the flowers of endangered species is suspect though, so a ban might be appropriate.
I don't think flowers have feelings in any way similar to our own, so its not something we need to worry about. But they are an individual organism trying to eke out a living like you or I. Put yourself in their proverbial shoes.
I don't really think we can empathise with plants per se, but we can respect them - Zong, on 10/19/2008, -0/+9you can take my salad from my cold dead hands
- doom777, on 10/19/2008, -0/+9obviously you didn't watch any Simpsons
- Hockey13, on 10/19/2008, -2/+10You heard their banking system "is tops?" Try again:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&si ... - Enkerro, on 10/19/2008, -7/+15Plant rights...
Have they all gone insane?!
And right now every vegetarian from Switzerland is packing thier bags. They are moving to the country of no plant rights. - rgremill, on 10/19/2008, -1/+9Looking for The Onion link.
- Paulish, on 10/19/2008, -3/+10This is what is so messed up about the world. Often it seems that people care more about plants and animals than... well, PEOPLE! They are more likely to complain about the chickens being slaughtered than the workers who slaughter the chickens working in poor conditions, often leading them to get injured.
Blackwater is not the only organization that shows how morally bankrupt we are. Organizations like PETA (I know, not in the article) show we just don't our moral priorities in line. - Half-Fast, on 10/19/2008, -0/+7When Hippies Attack - Volume 1
- NCSD, on 10/19/2008, -2/+9hahaha, wow watch all the vegetarians starve now. Best. Law. Ever.
- mhummel, on 10/19/2008, -0/+7As long as the veggies are peeled with dignity, the vegetarians should be ok.
- mdelling, on 10/19/2008, -2/+9What about rocks? They've been around longer than plants, and are part of the environment. Is it disrespectful to the rocks to skip them on a lake?
- Jeffhou65, on 10/19/2008, -1/+8busted on mythbusters
- Cattywampus, on 10/19/2008, -3/+10WTF?! Between animal rights and now plant rights, what are we humans supposed to eat, dirt? Wait, then we'll attract the ire of the microbe-rights activists.
- Lavarock, on 10/19/2008, -0/+7Switzerland must feel left out from not getting bombed very much and this is their cry for attention.
- TexasKoz, on 10/19/2008, -1/+8Will they rename ugli fruit?
- AaronCo, on 10/19/2008, -1/+7Just goes to show you... the intelligence integer can flip to negative if you push it far enough. -32767 intelligence FTW.
You know that corn cob would eat you if it could. -
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