The Thomas Chronicles

To follow suit after Helen’s post today, I present you with this image I found off the net.

Is this real? No photoshop?

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.

In preparation for last year’s Thanksgiving dinner, I made a short sojourn to the local supermarket. It was late morning and I was only a cup of coffee old. I knew I should have bought the groceries the night before, but the holiday crept up from behind me like a patient cat stalking its prey. One minute nothing was happening, the next minute BANG!, it’s right on top of you.

When I got there, I didn’t know whether the store was open or not. Back in Houston when I was younger, it was understood by all parties: You don’t leave the house on Thanksgiving. This wasn’t out of some stricture by my family— such as the notorious “Be home by midnight or else” or “Eat your vegetables”— Nope. It was because nothing was open for business except maybe the Denny’s down the road and the movie theaters.

Everything else was shut down for the day. Do not disturb. Kaput.

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