Please Respect the Dignity of Plants!

[volinbham]

From the kings of neutrality - the Swiss:

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > How Dare You Insult Chlorophyll-Kind!

But it has come up with few concrete examples of what type of experiment might be considered an unacceptable insult to plant dignity. The committee does not consider that genetic engineering of plants automatically falls into this category, but its majority view holds that it would if the genetic modification caused plants to 'lose their independence' - for example by interfering with their capacity to reproduce.

[Chemvol]

I think I saw this story on Fox this morning as I was getting ready for work. As crazy as some of us Americans are, we have nothing on the Europeans.