Washington, D.C. (rightcommentary.com): I’ve been to Switzerland a number of times, representing the United States, before the UN and the various human rights organizations. Without question, however, this has got to be the most asinine thing I have heard yet come out of the “land of clocks and chocolate.”

At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity of plants” and concluded that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. In other words - killing plants is murder. It’s morally wrong.

I’m not kidding. You go out and mow your grass - you’re no better than slaughtering people by the bushel… so must go this ludicrous argument of moral equivocation. By that standard - as a teenager - I killed more plants than worst tyrants combined. Actually ANY teenager who cut grass is by this standard a raving madman who has slaughtered innocent plans in the name of well-groomed lawns.

I was a weapon of mass mowing…

It is beyond the idiotic. Even for Switzerland…

A few years ago the Swiss added to their national constitution a provision requiring “account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms.” No one knew exactly what it meant, so they asked the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology to figure it out. The resulting report, “The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants,” nearly gave me a brain aneurism.

A “clear majority” of the panel adopted what it called a “biocentric” moral view, meaning that “living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive.” Thus, the panel determined that we cannot claim “absolute ownership” over plants and, moreover, that “individual plants have an inherent worth.” This means that “we may not use them just as we please, even if the plant community is not in danger, or if our actions do not endanger the species, or if we are not acting arbitrarily.”

And by the way - you Vegitarians are the worst of all - consuming the bodies of living organisms in your morally reprehensible manner. Here all this time you thought you were above the vicious savages that have characterized us meat-eaters. Well the Swiss see you no better than Pol Pot!

I don’t know what we do now. If you can’t eat meat and you can’t eat plants… I’m interested in what the Swiss believe is a morally sustainable diet.

Oh by the way - in Geneva, there are excellent restaurants - one in particular I’m thinking of is my favorite Le Chat-Botté - which serves exquisite French cuisine made from, yep you guessed it, meat and plants.

I suppose my Cigar smoking is even more reprehensible… I’m burning plant carcases for my personal amusement… so I suppose I shouldn’t do that either from the balcony of the restaurant, watching the sun setting over Lake Geneva.

Good grief - what idiotic thing to do. Clearly the issue is about property rights and regulatory control - but still - it’s beyond stupidity.

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