I think I will start a group that is offended by plant murder and enslavement. I think we need to think about plant-rights too. It's been shown that plants have behavior and sentient-like responses to their environments and injuries inflicted upon them by unthinking animals. We could move to stop this tragedy (and make beer money off of selling advertisement and t-shirts). Who's in and where do we sign up a volunteer Website artist?
Plant rights - Wiki
Plant rights is a concept which holds that
plants should be allowed some "
rights." It is not clear how much of the "plant rights" movement is real or how much is a
hoax; some of it may be driven by those who wish to denigrate the
animal rights movement by association.
[1] The concept of plant rights is held to be somewhat analogous to the concept of
animal rights, however it is vastly less significant.
Nevertheless, it certainly gives
right-wing bloggers and authors something to gasp and rage over. For instance, according to an article published in the
Weekly Standard authored by
Wesley J. Smith, a senior member of the
intelligent design-supporting
Discovery Institute, "plant rights" is a "seriously debated" concept.
[2]
Advocates of plant rights (or possibly parodists, which is the best case scenario) argue:
| “”"Plants are peaceful, passive creatures that do not actively cause harm. Plants provide us with oxygen to breath [sic]. Plants provide us shade and prevent erosion. One could even say that Plantliness is next to Godliness. We must do everything we can to protect our plant brothers. We must halt the barbaric practice of building houses out of plant carcasses. We must stop the evil Canadians from draining the blood out of our maple comrades. And we must end the campaigns of the demented vegans who favor only eating our helpless but plant friends." |
Advocates of plant rights describe the unnecessary eating of plants or indiscriminate killing of plants as "plant genocide."
[3]
While plant rights have few legitimate champions, some people will write editorials or letters to the editor that criticize
veganism and
vegetarianism by claiming that "plants feel pain" and other plant rights claptrap, in an attempt to take the
moral high ground from vegans and vegetarians (usually, so they can argue
that eating meat is okay).
[4][5]
However, even some people who dismiss plant rights as ridiculous would oppose the gratuitous chopping-down of mature trees, and in many jurisdictions trees have some legal protection.
[6]
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