Some 20 years ago the noted cowboy humorist Baxter Black did a hilarious poem on plants rights. It equated plants with humans, that feel pain, have feelings when an onion or carrot next to them is removed and have a right to be respected and given its "space" to grow and develop to its full potential.
This was a ludicrous takeoff on animal rights. After all, even 30 or 40 years ago, who'd have thought animals had rights. Try telling that to PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) today. What really has happened is that old time vegetarians, who have always decried eating animals or using their produce like eggs and milk for food, could masquerade behind "animal rights" as a slogan to present their unpopular views in such a way as to gain more traction.
Wacky as it may sound, now environmentalist types and save the earth types are now taking up the cause of plant's rights as a serious mantra. Check out the website anthonywsmith.com for the full story. I heard Smith on the radio tonight, who is exposing this fraud, and he makes complete sense, even if the plant rightists don't.
As he points out, you don't have to be a religious type to appreciate the scripture where God gave man dominion over the fowls of the air, the fish in the sea, the produce and animals of the earth. It goes on elsewhere to tell man to eat these things, that he may grow strong to be "fruitful and multiply."
Smith extrapolates from this that plants rights is a continuation of the attack on the whole Christian Judeo Ethic that underlies much of civilized society. It has been the goal of Communists, Muslims, Nazis and other terrorists of the ages to undermine the prevailing orthodoxy, to advance their own causes.
Smith explains it much more convincingly and cogently than I have incompetently outlined his arguments here. But you get the point: unlike Baxter Black's superb humor of a couple decades ago, now plants rights is serious business.
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