Elevation of weeds to a status equal with man is a consequence of secularism and the “enlightenment.” When this communion with God is broken and when God’s plan for man and creation is denied then man is no longer the pinacle of God’s good creation…

“This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is being seriously debated.”

This is all a bad dream………. isn’t it?

Edward Carpenter was followed by James Pickie, D.D. (of Pocahontas College), who said that men were immensely improved by grazing, or taking their food slowly and continuously, alter the manner of cows. And he said that he had, with the most encouraging results, turned city men out on all fours in a field covered with veal cutlets. Then Tolstoy and the Humanitarians said that the world was growing more merciful, and therefore no one would ever desire to kill. And Mr. Mick not only became a vegetarian, but at length declared vegetarianism doomed (“shedding,” as he called it finely, “the green blood of the silent animals”), and predicted that men in a better age would live on nothing but salt. And then came the pamphlet from Oregon (where the thing was tried), the pamphlet called “Why should Salt suffer?” and there was more trouble.

From The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Book I, Chapter I: Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy

entagor on May 5, 2008 at 12:53 PM

You have correctly linked Paganism with the Eugenics movement.

Jainism’s stance on nonviolence goes far beyond vegetarianism. Jains refuse food obtained with unnecessary cruelty. Many practice a lifestyle similar to Veganism due to the violence of modern dairy farms, and others exclude root vegetables from their diets in order to preserve the lives of the plants from which they eat. Potatoes, garlic and onions in particular are avoided by Jains. Many Jains abstain from eating green vegetables and root vegetables one day each week.
Jain monks and nuns walk barefoot and sweep the ground in front of them to avoid killing any insects or other tiny beings.

Michelle argues that this comes from a Western rejection of Judeo-Christian values, and she’s right

It’s not simply Judeo-Christian “values,” it’s a rejection of the worldview that the universe was made for human beings. You can calm down, Christianity isn’t under attack, people just think differently than you.

Will it be ‘Crime against Horticulture’ to fill your car with Ethanol?…

Pagans must also die because they consume plants and herbs and use them in ceremonies

Where a pagan walks a plant dies

All other life forms must live because plants have evolved to require animal interactions in their life cycles

For instance many seeds now require a stay in the gut of a bird to be prepped by the acids, enveloped in loving poop, and then planted near water. Better such plants had never evolved but now that the damage is done, we must retain their animal friends as an act of penance.

Also, I commit heresy by celebrating Earth Day with herbicide. The weeds die and I can see the Earth.

Then, there’s the beheading of grass blades with a gas mower. Woe is me…

Paganism is characterized by nature-worship and the devaluation of human life. The Pagan temples in ancient Greece and Rome frequently had resident prostitutes.

I’d really like to see a class action suit complaining that our government is forcing Paganism on us in violation of the Constitution.

“They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie” 2Thess. 2:10b-11

Who was it that said if you don’t believe in God, you will believe in anything.
When I was a child, I remember watching some old sci fi movie about Atlantis. This incredibly advance city, yet filled with butchery and barbarism. I watched in horror (as a kid) as these Atlantis scientists dissected animals and man and then sewed them together in a lab. Finally, our heroes fled as the “gods” angry at the hedonism, finally destroyed the city.
Now,, every day I read headlines and it reminds me of that movie.

The Vegetarian’s Nightmare
(a dissertation on plants’ rights)

Ladies and diners 1 make you
A shameful, degrading confession.
A deed of disgrace in the name of good taste
Though I did it 1 meant no aggression.

1 had planted a garden last April
And lovingly sang it a ballad.
But later in June beneath a full moon
Forgive me, 1 wanted a salad!

So 1 slipped out and fondled a carrot
Caressing its feathery top.
With the force of a brute 1 tore out the root!
It whimpered and came with a pop!

Then laying my hand on a radish
1 jerked and it left a small crater.
Then with the blade of my True Value spade
1 exhumed a slumbering tater!

Celery 1 plucked, 1 twisted a squash!
Tomatoes were wincing in fear.
1 choked the Romaine. It screamed out in pain,
Their anguish was filling my ears!

I finally came to the lettuce
As it cringed at the top of the row
With one wicked slice 1 beheaded it twice
As it writhed, I dealt a death blow.

1 butchered the onions and parsley.
My hoe was all covered with gore.
1 chopped and 1 whacked without looking back
Then 1 stealthily slipped in the door.

My bounty lay naked and dying
So 1 drowned them to snuff out their life.
1 sliced and 1 peeled as they thrashed and they reeled
On the cutting board under my knife.

1 violated tomatoes
So their innards could never survive.
1 grated and ground ’til they made not a sound
Then 1 boiled the tater alive!

Then 1 took the small broken pieces
1 had tortured and killed with my hands
And tossed them together, heedless of whether
They suffered or made their demands.

1 ate them. Forgive me, I’m sorry
But hear me, though I’m a beginner
Those plants feel pain, though it’s hard to explain
To someone who eats them for dinner!

1 intend to begin a crusade
For PLANT’S RIGHTS, including chick peas.
The A.C.L.U. will be helping me, too.
In the meantime, please pass the bleu cheese.

Baxter Black
Coyote Cowboy Poetry 1986

While these bioethicists worry over the epidemic of flower-cutting, I wonder what they have to say about humans grinding up their own embryos for research into stem cells? – Ed

Oh I’m sure chopping up children is OK with bioethicists, they are the new High Priest of all things politically correct. They are some wacked out scary nut-jobs that need to be denounced at ever opportunity.

Is Valentine’s Day a massacre? (How many people send cut flowers on Valentine’s Day?)

Spiritual warfare is real, and this is just another front in the war. The continued elevation of the worth of plant and animal life, while human life is treated as worthless and expendable.

Don’t underestimate the influence of Switzerland on the thought process of leaders in other countries…it is home to the World Economic Forum.

This is now a part of their national constitution? I am embarrassed to be 1/8 Swiss…

On Saturday evening, Eric Blair sent me a link to this story from The Weekly Standard (since picked up by Hot Air) detailing the latest political craze sweeping Europe: plant rights. That’s right – the continent whose people are too lily-livered to s…

Imagine being hewn down by a combine, or having your sex organs removed against your will, or having human children pull parts of your body off one by one while they chant “He loves me, he loves me not?”.

This is the horror plants face everyday at…

Great.

Now I’m going to starve to death.

JetBoy on May 4, 2008 at 8:51 AM

You can eat germ/bacteria free cookies from Haiti.