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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

something else for my simple mind to ponder ...  Thanks.....bobford


--- On Thu, 10/9/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Plant life ethics --for real
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 10:37 PM
> Bob,
> 
> I do entirely agree with Ray, that plants have spirits, 
> can experience satisfaction, and that they are happy in 
> fulfilling their purpose.
> 
> Although I am trained as a botanist I am an anomaly. Years 
> ago I read Tompkin's "Secret Life of Plants"
> and was 
> intrigued by the idea of plants as sentient beings, but I 
> could not say it was so then because I was still looking 
> through the eyes of science from my time at an 
> agricultural college.
> 
> But after years of teaching plant identification and 
> appreciation I left the botanical center and decided to 
> study the uses of plants. This question came up again. 
> During this time I met and studied with Stephen Harrod 
> Buhner who wrote "The Lost Language of Plants: The 
> Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on 
> Earth" which discusses how plants communicate their 
> healing qualities to humans and other animals. Through 
> working with him and others, I have since come to the 
> conclusion that plants are sentient, so perhaps they 
> should deserve such consideration. BTW--My former 
> colleaues think I'm nutty.
> 
> --Sage
> "Way Out" in Texas
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:41:26 -0700 (PDT)
>   bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Maybe someone with a closer understanding of plants, 
> >like Sage or someone else, can tell me if this article 
> >makes these ethics professors sound nutty, or if
> I'm just 
> >not as educated on the new ethos as should be desired 
> >....bobford
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > OCTOBER 10, 2008 
> > 
> > Switzerland's Green Power Revolution: Ethicists
> Ponder 
> >Plants' Rights 
> > 
> > Who Is to Say Flora Don't Have Feelings? Figuring
> Out 
> >What Wheat Would Want
> > 
> > By GAUTAM NAIKArticle
> > 
> > »ZURICH -- For years, Swiss scientists have blithely 
> >created genetically modified rice, corn and apples. But
> 
> >did they ever stop to consider just how humiliating
> such 
> >experiments may be to plants?
> > 
> > That's a question they must now ask. Last spring,
> this 
> >small Alpine nation began mandating that geneticists 
> >conduct their research without trampling on a
> plant's 
> >dignity.
> > 
> > Beat Keller
> > "Unfortunately, we have to take it
> seriously," Beat 
> >Keller, a molecular biologist at the University of 
> >Zurich. "It's one more constraint on doing
> genetic 
> >research."
> > 
> >
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122359549477921201.html
> > 
> > 
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