May 14 2008
What’s PETA to do?
Vegetarians the world over must be shaking in the boots from the news last week. What if it catches on?
Last month, the Agence-France-Presse, the oldest news agency in the world, reported that the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Gene Technology in Geneva, Switzerland, “condemned the decapitation of flowers without reason.” …
What really got people talking was that this Swiss governmental ethics committee came up with guidelines to protect “the dignity of plants.”
So, on the one hand groups, like PETA have been pressing for vegetarianism from as far back as I can remember, (which granted isn’t so long); on the other hand, the “federal Ethics Committee on non-human Gene Technology” in Switzerland pronounced that it was immoral for humans to arbitrarily murder plants because the deserve dignity as a creature of the plant world.
Are the people from PETA going to starve as a result of this malarky? Are we to have a pang of conscience every time we partake in, Oh my goodness, a fully sumptuous bowl of salad?
Perhaps in due time, we might have to pay Vegetation Credits to a company to ease the burden of our overtaxed hyper-consciences and find that Al Gore has forgone his copious bovine diet in favor of spinach and radishes. Only he’d probably own the company holding the credits.