Love for Life

Re: The Silent Scream of the Asparagus Get ready for ‘plant rights.’
From The Administration Department Of The Federation of Sovereign Nations
12th May 2008

This is in response to an article that appeared in The Weekly Standard, a Washington, DC-based publication titled: The Silent Scream of the Asparagus, Get ready for ‘plant rights.’ by Wesley J. Smith. The article labels Switzerland as enshrining “plant dignity” and it “being a part of a cultural disease that has infected Western civilization, causing people to lose the ability to think critically and distinguish serious from frivolous ethical concerns. It also reflects the triumph of a radical anthropomorphism that views elements of the natural world as morally equivalent to people.”

I would easily agree with Wesley J. Smith if the Swiss were going around jailing people for cutting down dandelions, picking a few tulips for the vase, or ripping out a ripe radish for your salad, but I think their report titled “The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants,” stems far beyond the limited and agenda influenced eye of The Weekly Standard.

The world is in a state of corporate catastrophe. Bulldozers destroy hundreds of acres of land simply to reach a development site. Water tables are polluted beyond a living organisms hope of sustaining life just to extract a few barrels of oil. Pesticides are sprayed in blankets eradicating everything in their path, except the ones that are “genetically designed” to withstand their chemical concoction.

In defense to Paul Watson, the Sea Shepherd who describes human beings as being the “AIDS of the Earth.” He further adds to the quote “Our viral like behaviour can be terminal both to the present biosphere and ourselves. We are both the pathogen and the vector. But we also have the capability of being the anti-virus if only we can recognize the symptoms and address the disease with effective measures of control.” Paul Watson is guilty of stopping thousands of illegal fishing boats that send thousands of miles of hooks and line across ocean waters killing tens of thousands of fish each day (all species not just shark). This illegal fishing is not stopped by what we call “third world” countries, provides a large influx of capital to those who have next to nothing. Shark fins are sold on twisted legal Asian markets that believe the shark fin has mystical healing powers. (Source: Sharkwater the movie)

If you’re worried about the Sea Shepherd wiping out humanity, I tell anyone influenced by Wesley J. Smith’s article not worry about what Mr. Paul Watson, head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says or does. If you wanted something to worry about, worry about people like Dr. Eric R. Pianka, Bill Gates, John D. Rockefeller, Hillary Clinton (if she makes it to office) and even those who operate the World Bank. These are the people and organizations that have the greatest amount of control over populations and have publicly admitted that there are too many people on this planet. The world bank is starving countries, third-world countries are granted loans that they can not afford, they contain unheard of conditions that take over their land, prohibit them from farming their own food, and in some cases, taxing the water which falls from the sky.

Dr. Henry Kissinger wrote: “Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.”

The Swiss are just trying to make people aware of their actions, that this world we live in is in fact a living organism in itself, connected to all forms of life. Why should life be taken for from it for no reason? If it is not feeding you, sustaining you, why destroy it? To make Q3 numbers for stakeholders?

The corporation is not sustainable, especially when anything (living or inanimate) that stands in its path is a commodity they can do with as they please. If anything comes of the “The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants,” by the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee, then I hope it is simply to protect the genetic traits of these plants by banning any type of manipulation by corporations who simply want to patent, control and “improve” these species for profit.

‘”As for “plant rights,” if the Swiss model spreads, it may hobble biotechnology and experimentation to improve crop yields.’ - Wesley J. Smith

Improve? Excuse me. Look at Monsanto and the disaster they have created with the Corn and Canola. US corn is banned in many countries across the world because it’s basically a horrible science project gone wrong. Many people have shown allergic and sometimes fatal reactions to these GMO crops. Have you ever eaten an Apple that is local and organically grown, then had one that isn’t organic or came from 3000 miles away? It’s like eating a ball of watered down cardboard. Not to mention the nutrients are not even there. When Biotechnologists say they wish to “improve crop yields” they simply mean bigger, tasteless, less-nutritious foods that wont spoil as fast when their picked raw 3000 miles from you and trucked over by huge diesel guzzling 18-wheelers, and ripened with a dose of nitrogen.

People need to start walking up, stop taking needlessly, this abundance which we have been used to is slowly disappearing. If “The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants” short circuits your brain, then we’ll see how your brain is functioning after the only nutrient-deficient food you can get at the grocery store is called by a brand name (®MonsterGene’s Golden Delicious™), not a fruit or vegetable.

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