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How does a freezing flower at a botanical exhibition express its right not to be subjected to uncomfortable and potentially fatal chills? How are the rights of the human beings attending the show balanced against the imperative of eliminating that 0.002% contribution to global warming? Does this go to an international court? Or do we just do whatever PeTA says?

Once you scratch the surface of these questions you begin to see why the proposed European Union Constitution was 341 pages long and could only be read and properly understood by people with advanced degrees in International Law -- who represent a tiny fraction of the population -- and that was just the beginning!

Nobody in the EU is going to keep a folded up copy of that Constitution in their vest pocket like Thurgood Marshall was (perhaps apocryphally) said to have done. Of course, once Intel starts producing its 45 nanometer Atom processors, they'll be able to keep a PDF version on a handheld, I suppose.

I say let the lawn grow and express itself naturally! :-)

"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." -Fred Dalton Thompson

Get ready to go to jail for that Briggs and Stratton, bub.

You can read it here, along with Ethical Fruitarianism.

In fact, PeTA *does not* take as extreme a stance as Switzerland has recently done in law. That makes the Swiss even ">*more extreme* than PeTA, if you can believe it.

There is currently no reason to believe that plants experience pain because they are devoid of central nervous systems, nerve endings, and brains. It is theorized that animals are able to feel pain so that they can use it for self-protection purposes. For example, if you touch something hot and feel pain, you will learn from the pain that you should not touch that item in the future. Since plants cannot move from place to place and do not need to learn to avoid certain things, this sensation would be superfluous. From a physiological standpoint, plants are completely different from mammals. Unlike animals’ body parts, many perennial plants, fruits, and vegetables can be harvested over and over again without dying.

If you are concerned about the impact of vegetable agriculture on the environment, you should know that a vegetarian diet is better for the environment than a meat-based one, since the vast majority of grains and legumes raised today are used as feed for cattle. Rather than eating animals, such as cows, who must consume 16 pounds of vegetation in order to convert them into 1 pound of flesh, you can save many more plants’ lives (and destroy less land) by eating vegetables directly.

When you eat vegetables, do you worry about saving plant's lives? Do cows? Do insects? Do bacteria? Do viruses? Does Gaia worry about saving plant's lives when it gets hit by asteroids? Do asteroids worry about wiping out Gaia's plants? Does the sun worry about whether or not it will wipe out all the plants on Earth when it eventually exhausts all its hyrdogen and goes nova? Where is the Intergalactic Criminal Court when you need them?

http://www.peta.org/about/faq.asp

Let's think about this for a second: if a plant can be claimed to have rights, what about the soil it grows from? How about the chemicals it is composed of? Do Pectin and Cellulose have rights, too?

And on the other end, if Earth is an organism, then certainly the other planets are as well: for who is to say that Jupiter is not an organism, and that Saturn isn't either? Or Pluto? Or Mercury for that matter?

Because to claim that the Earth is an organism and not extend that same definition to other, lesser planets would be Planetarianism. It makes one wonder whether the Moon is an organism, too? After all, the tides here on Earth couldn't exist without the moon, and since the tides give rise to life and the menstrual cycle, isn't the Moon a part of that living, breathing organism?

If you smoke enough dope, you can believe in these things, too.

Losing its status as a planet ?

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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

I'd be satisfied if someone could tell me whether or not hypereutectic alloys have "rights." After all, you can make arguments that show that hypereutectic alloys behave at least as interestingly as some primitive plant species do. They don't have nerve endings or nervous systems either. So if you manufacture a piston ring, are you violating that metal's rights? How many lawyers will it take to decide that question?

To the right of the video on the YouTube page there's a link to the embed code. Just cut-and-paste it into your comment or blog.

"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." -Fred Dalton Thompson

thanks, man. I'm just gonna go hide in my little corner now...

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