The Dignity of Living Beings With Regards To Plants

(The Silent Screams of Asparagus) 4th place in contest The Swiss, those bastions of “Pease, Not War” That neutral country to the core Have gone to the edge – then one step more On the Dignity of Plants The killing of flora is morally wrong The concept of “Plant Rights” missing too long They’re crying out loud and crying out strong On the Dignity of Plants They’ve adopted a biocentric moral view Living plants are alive just like me and you So we have to be thinking in all that we do On the Dignity of Plants Individual plants have an inherent worth They don’t just appear, they get here by birth So when dealing with plants we have to think first On the Dignity of Plants They say that the farmer can mow his own field They don’t explain why – but the hay has appealed Beheading of flowers – on that he must yield * To the Dignity of Plants The Swiss enshrinement of “plant dignity” Is a symptom of cultural disease Infecting Western culture Bringing critical thinking to its knees The Judeo-Christian world view Which upheld the unique nature of man Has fallen on hard times so now we can sue We’ve no leg on which we can stand Animal rights from this poisonous soil Have crippled our courts, caused tempers to boil Now flora and fauna have joined the coil On the Dignity of Plants If animals and man can feel real pain As PETA explains and explains and explains Then plants should be treated exactly the same That’s the Dignity of Plants Now some Swiss are saying that plants must come first That “Man” is the AIDS of our dear Mother Earth We may have to expel him for he is the curse On the Dignity of Plants We live in a time of cornucopian wealth Yet millions of humans suffer in health So hiding behind “plants rights” in stealth Is no Dignity of Man Me, I’ve got my dignity Plants equal to man is just foreign to me Giving plants our rights is immorality And that is my stance on Plants Mdailey * 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. This is no HOAX. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is being seriously debated in the Swiss courts.