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April 25, 2008
The dignity of plants
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics.
In the article The Dignity of the Carrot Sandberg writes that Swiss federal law now requires researchers experimenting on plants to consider the dignity of plants.
To define this concept the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology has created a set of guidelines, and concluded that plants should be respected as they are, they cannot truly be owned, should not be hurt unnecessarily and should not be turned into tools for our human desires.
Posted by Waldemar at April 25, 2008 08:20 AM