Pretty soon there will be an organization known as PETOP, people for the ethical treatment of plants if the nutty Swiss have their way. the Swiss are now debating whether plants have rights the same as people.

The committee offered this illustration: A farmer mows his field (apparently an acceptable action, perhaps because the hay is intended to feed the farmer's herd--the report doesn't say). But then, while walking home, he casually "decapitates" some wildflowers with his scythe. The panel
decries this act as immoral, though its members can't agree why. The report states, opaquely:

At this point it remains unclear whether this action is condemned because it expresses a particular moral stance of the farmer toward other organisms or because something bad is being done to the flowers themselves.



http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/065njdoe.asp?ZoomFont=YES
Before you know it we won't be allowed to mow our lawns or give our wives and girlfriends bouquets of flowers.

All of the sense of the animal rights movement got out of Dodge a long time ago. Now we're left with the loonies and the nutjobs, and the sharks that take their money to produce those glitzy ad campaigns.

Put that melon down, Nappy. Melons have rights. Put it down or I swear I'll have you up on rape charges.

Pfft. She said she loved me. Bring it.

Course if you don't want those lurid shots of you and your frogs surfacing, you'll be the better man and wire me a huge sum of hush money. No frog would submit to that! :eek:

The frogs loved it, at least all but one of them.

Tell me, Nappy, do you paint lips on the melons or are they au natural?

Each one has their own personality. Some like it raw, others want to be dressed up in frilly dresses. Pooksie, my favorite, only wants black leather. Mmm.

I heard the melons were too large for you and you are now using grapes.

oh no!!! what will the vegetarians eat?!?! LOL.