Switzerland Places Ban on the Humiliation of Plants

In an attempt to be on the cutting edge of the absurd, the Swiss government has added an amendment to their plant rights law. It is now illegal to humiliate a plant. "Where does it stop?" asks Yves Poirier, a molecular biologist at the laboratory of plant biotechnology at the University of Lausanne. "Should we now defend the dignity of microbes and viruses?" If the Swiss have their way, nobody will be eating twice-shamed potatoes at my house anymore.

Big deal

[Profane MuthaFucka]

This is such a stupid story, because it relies on the stupidity of the audience to completely misunderstand what it's all about.

I'm sure conservatives like Pudge will be all outraged by it.

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[pla]

This is such a stupid story, because it relies on the stupidity of the audience to completely misunderstand what it's all about.

Completely misunderstand? Did you read TFA? You don't need to misunderstand it to find the situation absurd:

the team published a treatise on "the moral consideration of plants for their own sake." 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 ratio

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[Profane MuthaFucka]

Completely misunderstand? Did you read TFA? You don't need to misunderstand it to find the situation absurd

Exactly what I'm talking about. What does this have to do with a Pope saying that condoms are unnatural? What does this have to do with programming plants to produce infertile seeds? What does this have to do with messing with any genetic codes at all?

If you find the situation absurd, then you're just not thinking. You're simply reacting to the specific absurd consequences without considering the reaso

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[Profane MuthaFucka]

Sure there are differences. They are different things. The law was about some kind of weird dignity for plants, and there are other people who want dignity for other weird things - like cumshots.

Precedent?

[Randym]

Beat Keller is a molecular biologist at the University of Zurich. 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. The majority of the panel agrees that genetically modified plants are ok, âoeas long as their independence, i.e., reproductive ability and adaptive ability,