{"id":504,"date":"2008-10-31T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=504"},"modified":"2008-10-31T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T00:12:34","slug":"the-silent-scream-of-the-asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Scream of the Asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/015\/065njdoe.asp\">Get ready for &#8216;plant rights,&#8217;  from the Weekly Standard.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the &#8220;dignity&#8221; of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called &#8220;plant rights&#8221; is being seriously debated. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The committee offered this illustration: A farmer mows his field (apparently an acceptable action, perhaps because the hay is intended to feed the farmer&#8217;s herd&#8211;the report doesn&#8217;t say). But then, while walking home, he casually &#8220;decapitates&#8221; some wildflowers with his scythe. The panel decries this act as immoral, though its members can&#8217;t agree why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/015\/065njdoe.asp\">Read the whole article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I missed this when it came out last spring.  Hat tip to Stephen Colbert, who mentioned it in his &#8216;Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger&#8217; segment last night.<\/p>\n<p><embed FlashVars='videoId=189715' src='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for &#8216;plant rights,&#8217; from the Weekly Standard. You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the &#8220;dignity&#8221; of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Silent Scream of the Asparagus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}