The Allmighty Superiour Human:
F l o w e r P o w e r
Of course, a rose bush has no nervous system with which to feel, nor throat with which to cry.
"But how do you know," the mad inventor whispers to his neighbour, "that a rose bush doesn't feel as much pain when someone cuts its stem in two as you would feel if someone cut your wrist off with garden shears? How do you know that?"
How indeed.
For anyone who has ever spoken to a pot plant, mourned the wilting of yet another herb garden or been on good terms with a tree, the notion that a plant might think or feel is not so odd.
Almost 30 years ago, the trippy flower-power film The Secret Life of Plants claimed pot plants could read minds, cabbages were easily annoyed and a cactus could learn the Japanese alphabet.
Then just last year, a parliamentary panel of philosophers, lawyers, geneticists and theologians in Switzerland, charged with devising new rules for genetic testing, published a treatise on preserving the "dignity of plants".
Its edicts included that it was "morally impermissible" to decapitate a wildflower by the roadside without rational reason.
ONE with ALL ...
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