Plant Oppression Around the World

• As we speak, winter wheat is being harvested in North America: huge combines sweep across the plains, murdering billions of jailed plants with ruthless efficiency, while the mothers of this country blindly pack P,B,& J on Wonder Bread in those brown bags every morning.
• In Latin America, advances in genetic engineering have made it possible to clone banana trees with "favorable" genetic characteristics. Who will protect the "unfavorable" bananas? How can we tolerate a systematic genetic cleansing of the banana population? Just because a tree has small bananas doesn't mean it should be denied its right to bear fruit. And does not the cloning of these trees completely strip them of all dignity, of all individuality, of the essence of their very existence?
• The list goes on and on...

So the next time you pop a juicy Shitake mushroom in your mouth, remember that plants have rights too!

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