Comments on: Legal protection for dignity of plants

By: VMS

VMS — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:56:20 +0000

That’s a sign of prosperity when a nation can devote its resources to nonsense. I’m sure that the Swiss have no social problems or legitimate ethical dilemmas that would warrant allocating the ethicists to another area. But wait, would you want these guys to be involved with any matter of even the slightest importance?

This reminds me of some of the nonsense that we have here, such as requiring a wetlands impact statement (at a cost of thousands of dollars) to erect a fence in one’s backyard to separate the property from a brook, so that kids playing in the yard are safer.

By: Keith Dickinson

Keith Dickinson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:10:52 +0000

Oops… Wrong reference. Thought this was the “don’t eat plants because they have rights” article I saw the other day. (I love wacko journalism)

By: Keith Dickinson

Keith Dickinson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:08:49 +0000

How about they demonstrate surviving for 30 days without any plant based/derived foods, so the rest of us can follow their example?

By: Mark Biggar

Mark Biggar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:04:25 +0000

Is there any way to handle this just by laughing at them really hard?

By: nevins

nevins — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:53:57 +0000

If these folks were really committed to their cause would rapidly end; after eliminating the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom there really isn’t much left to eat.
But then they want what’s best for us, and not themselves personally.

By: Bumper

Bumper — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:32:30 +0000

Throughout Great Britain politicians and bureaucrats are chagrined that such an insignificant country as Switzerland beat them to the punch on such an important point of political correctness. The Queen should route the whole lot of them into a field of crop circles for the night and see what the aliens have to say about “plant rights and dignity.”