Switzerland: Don’t Hurt Veggies’ Feelings

Wheat and all plant life has feelings and researchers must take veggie’s tender emotions into account when tinkering around with their genes, the Swiss government has ruled.

According to the Wall Street Journal’s Gautam Naik, last spring under an amendment to the constitution, Switzerland began mandating that geneticists conduct their research without trampling on a plant's alleged dignity.

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The new rules raise such questions as what is a more mortifying fate for a carrot than being peeled, chopped and dropped into boiling water? Do carrots scream as lobsters are said (falsely) to do when being thrown unceremoniously into a pot and boiled alive?

"Where does it stop?" Yves Poirier, a molecular biologist at the laboratory of plant biotechnology at the University of Lausanne asked the Journal. “Should we now defend the dignity of microbes and viruses?"

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Left unanswered was the question: Does this new development open the door to a brand new profession -- plant psychology with potato patients prone on a plant shrink’s couch, expressing fears their dignity might be violated by being peeled, mashed and drowned in hot gravy?

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I know some people that messed with an onions feelings and it made them cry.

I know some people that messed with an onions feelings and it made them cry.

That's so cheesy!

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I know some people that messed with an onions feelings and it made them cry.
I love it!!!

Baptist Brethren wrote:
I know some people that messed with an onions feelings and it made them cry.

That's good. So that's whats wrong when I am cutting an onion and it makes me cry. I hurt it's feelings.

Now if only these people would practice what they preach!! Don't eat animals, for you hurt them. Don't eat fruit, veg, grain, nuts - for you hurt them. Don't drink water, you harm any living organisms contained therein. Don't breathe air - surely it is tramatic for microorganisms to go through your nasal passages.


End result --------- viola (sorry, don't have an accent mark on my keyboard), no eco-wackos. The world has just been improved!!

No. They would just be limited to nuts that fall of of trees, milk, and non-fertilized eggs. Yummy! That would get old fast. And remember, don't pick the nuts. Wait for them to fall off.

Are they out of their minds or what?? What stupidity!!!

They would just be limited to milk...
That's giving them too much credit. I'm sure that the process to extract milk is abusive to cows, and you're not considerate at all to all of those bacteria inside milk that makes it, well... milk!