Field_of_Weeds_(2636333676) Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 7, 2024 CategoriesBotanyLife SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , bats, climate change, Elizabeth Kolbert, František Baluška, garden, Paco Calvo, plant rights, scientists, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Thomas Nagel, weeds, Zoë Schlanger To Weed the Garden, or Not to Weed the Garden, That Is the Question Denyse O’Leary October 7, 2024 Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 6 An award-winning environmental journalist tackles the question of plant consciousness and plant rights. Read More ›
Type post Date March 28, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsEthics Tagged , __k-review, animal rights, Discovery Institute, Heritage Foundation, ID the Future, March for Science, plant rights, scientism, United States, Wesley J. Smith Wesley J. Smith on Rights Gone Wild Science and Culture March 28, 2020 Bioethics, Ethics 1 Listen in as Smith discusses how science has been conflated with ethics and talks about animal and plant rights. Read More ›
weeds Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 14, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsBotanyHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, Argentina, autotrophs, brains, environmentalists, humans, insects, microbes, Monica Gagliano, Natalie Angier, New York Times, orangutan, pain, peas, persons, plant rights, radicals, Switzerland, trees, University of Western Australia, weeds Another Push for Plant “Rights” Wesley J. Smith January 14, 2019 Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism 2 There is increasing wind in the sails of everything-deserves-rights advocacy. Read More ›
Swiss_cheese (1) Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 16, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsBotany Tagged , __k-review, assisted suicide, fisherman, fungus, GMO, goldfish, lobsters, New Zealand, plant rights, suicide clinic, suicide tourism, Switzerland, wheat Swiss Follies Wesley J. Smith January 16, 2018 Bioethics, Botany 2 Switzerland has followed New Zealand and a few other localities to outlaw boiling live lobsters. But that's just for starters. Read More ›