Switzerland Gets Ready For Plant Rights
At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the dignity of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called plant rights is being seriously debated.
The [Swiss] committee has …. come up with few concrete examples of what type of experiment might be considered an unacceptable insult to plant dignity. The committee does not consider that genetic engineering of plants automatically falls into this category, but its majority view holds that it would if the genetic modification caused plants to lose their independence–for example by interfering with their capacity to reproduce.
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