[Vision2020] Fw: Plants Rights

[Dick Sherwin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Sherwin" <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net>
To: <dickow at uidaho.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Plants Rights


> All I have to say to this is;  "Earth First!!!  We'll log the other
planets
> later!!
>
> Dick the logger
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Dickow" <dickow at uidaho.edu>
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 3:40 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Plants Rights
>
>
> > With some of the recent comments about animal rights and so on, I'd like
> to
> > make a plug for my Plants Rights Society. (I think I posted the
> constitution
> > of the organization a few years ago here on Vision2020).
> >
> > The Plants Rights Society recognizes plant life as an equal and in many
> > cases superior group of organisms inhabiting the planet. Plant life
> > superceded animal life and shows superiority in many areas, such as
> eternal
> > life (due to open growth) in many plant groups, high intelligence, and
> other
> > features. Plants by and large produce their own food and provide much of
> the
> > support of the food chain involving animals. Some plants 'feel' pain (in
> the
> > manner of plants), communicate danger warnings to neighboring plants,
> > attempt to avoid danger by moving away from harmful objects or
substances
> > (though they do move rather slowly sometimes), and engage in other
> seemingly
> > intelligent behaviors. We don't argue that plant's 'think,' in the usual
> > sense, but might argue that thinking as we know it is simply silly for a
> > plant to do, so they don't even bother.
> >
> > Yet many humans view plant life as of a 'lower order' of creature than
> > animal life, and actually deign to consider a diet entirely of plants a
> > moral, ethical activity, a view we do not hold. Indeed, the
'invisibility'
> > of plants to many people is all too common, and reflects an extreme form
> of
> > anthro-centricity, or animal-centricity. Consider, for example:
> >
> > Not long ago I heard a news reporter on NPR describe 'hacking and
chopping
> > our way through the jungle, with not a living thing in sight for miles
> > around...' Huh? What was he hacking through?
> >
> > I once met a young lady who explained that she decided to be a vegan
> because
> > she found the idea of eating living things repugnant. Huh? Aren't plants
> > alive? (And... did she properly and humanely kill all the vegetables
> before
> > eating them?)
> >
> > Join my society (when the website gets up) and support plant life. We
urge
> > that:
> >
> > (1) Plants be fairly and humanely treated when processed and marketed as
> > food.
> > (2) Plants be read their rights during harvesting, weeding, and other
> human
> > activities that may damage or destroy them.
> > (3) Harm no plants during the filming of motion pictures. Remember that
> > closing scene in Apocalypse Now?!!!! EGAD!
> > (4) Diets that have an overly large amount of plant materials are not
> > supported by the society. Vegan diets are morally repugnant to the
> society.
> > (5) Plant usage for scientific experimentation must be approved by
> > authorized review panels or boards.
> >
> > Thank you for your consideration.
> >
> > Bob Dickow, troublemaker
> >
> >
> >
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