October 3, 2008

And the Ig Nobel 2008 Peace Prize Goes to....

The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity" -Improbable Research

"Terminator technology" is a genetic modification of plants so that a sown seed germinates normally, but the developing plant then produces seeds that are unable to germinate. What impacts does this technology have on agriculture? Does this affect the Würde der Kreatur in plants? And what precisely constitutes the dignity of a plant? - ECNH - Dignity of living beings

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